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Intel® Centrino® Processor Technology with Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor
Microsoft Windows Vista* experience
 
 
Outrageous performance, radical enjoyment.
 
Intel® Centrino® processor technologyWith two cores and large 6MB L2 cache you can take your entertainment to a whole new level thanks to the first 45nm Intel Core™2 Duo processor from Intel Corporation.
  Intel® Pentium® M processor

Intel® Centrino® processor technology
with Intel® Pentium® M processor 780 and Intel® 915GM Express Chipset 		Intel® Core™2 Duo processor

Intel Centrino processor technology
with Intel® Core™2 Duo processor T8100 and Intel® GM965 Express Chipset
Performance Results
(Industry Benchmark)		 Single-Core
90nm		 Dual-Core
45nm
Convert music files to Apple iPod* playable format¹

Runtime in seconds
Lower is better
(% improvement)		 175 seconds

(Baseline)		 99 seconds

(+76%)
Prepare your family photos for upload to Facebook* and create a web gallery for your personal website²

Runtime in minutes
Lower is better

(% improvement)		 12 minutes
9 seconds

(Baseline)		 4 minutes
16 seconds

(+185%)


  Notebook PC Configurations Used for Performance Measurements
Intel® Mobile System
 Intel® Centrino® Processor Technology
 Intel Centrino Processor Technology
Processor name Intel® Pentium® M processor 780 Intel® Core™2 Duo processor T8100
Processor speed 2.26 GHz 2.10 GHz
Front side bus 533 MHz 800 MHz
Processor secondary cache 2MB Level 2 cache 3MB Level 2 cache
OEM laptop Sony VAIO* VGN-S93PSY (Modified) Sony VAIO VGN-SZ640 (Modified)
Chipset Mobile Intel® 915GM Express Chipset Mobile Intel GM965 Express Chipset
Wireless network card Intel® 2200BG with driver 9.1.0.104 Intel® PRO/Wireless 4965AGN with driver 11.1.0.110
Platform BIOS Phoenix Technologies* LTD V.R0091V0 Phoenix Technologies LTD V.R0111S5
Intel® Turbo Memory Disabled Disabled
Intel Turbo Memory driver Disabled Disabled
Memory size Infineon* HYS64T128021HDL-5-A 2x1GB PC2-3200S Quimonda* HYS64T128021HDL-3S-B 2x1GB PC2-5300S
Chipset INF file Intel® INF 6.1.0.1008 Intel INF 8.1.1.1010
Hard disk Hitachi* HTS722020K9SA00 SATA 200GB 7200RPM Hitachi HTS722020K9SA00 SATA 200GB 7200RPM
Microsoft Vista* DirectX version DirectX* 10 DirectX 10
Video controller Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (Intel® GMA) 900 Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (Intel GMA) X3100
Video memory size/type 128MB Dynamic Video Memory Technology 358MB Dynamic Video Memory Technology
Video driver revision
(DirectX 9 support only)		 6.14.10.4656 7.14.10.1244
Operating system Windows Vista Home Premium, Build 6000, on NTFS Windows Vista Home Premium, Build 6000, on NTFS
Graphics 1280x800 resolution, 32-bit color WXGA 1280x800 resolution, 32-bit color WXGA
Network card Intel® PRO/100 VE Marvell Yukon* 88E8055
Screen size 13.25" 13.25"
Power management mode High performance High performance
¹ Apple iTunes* is a digital media application that can be used to manage digital music such as converting from one digital audio format to another. In this case, Apple iTunes 7.1.1 is used to convert 61 min 24 sec of music (635MB) from WMA to MP3 format with a bit rate of 160Kbps for listening on your Apple iPod*.

² Adobe Photoshop* Lightroom is a photography application that lets you manage, adjust, and present a large amount of photographs. For this scenario Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.1 is used to resize 125 ten megapixel and 75 six megapixel jpeg photos at 480x360 resolution for posting to Facebook* or viewing on portable devices such as an iPhone*. The photos are also used to create a personal HTML web gallery that can be published online.

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