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Bananas Over Banias?
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Posted by: TotalRecall
Intel will release Banias, a new energy-efficient notebook chip, on March 12, and open a new era in the company's laptop business.
The chip will go under the name Pentium-M. C|Net has more on that here. Tom's Hardware has a review of the first Pentium-M notebook:
With the Pentium-M, Intel has succeeded in creating an interesting new breed of microprocessors. The results of our early tests were satisfying in regards to both performance as well as battery life. If you were hoping that the Pentium-M for notebooks would mean that you can use your laptop for six to eight hours without recharging, however, then please remember that the CPU is not the only thing that sucks away at battery life. One of the biggest sources of power consumption is the backlight of the the display as well as the hard drive, and this is something that probably isn't going to change in the near future.
Read on here.
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