They typically have higher clock speeds, but more importantly, two cores (essentially twin brains) to share the workload. Newer Centrino Duo laptops will utilise the Core 2 Duo series of processors.

Page 9: Quake 4 and F.E.A.R. Page 10: Power Consumption Page 11: Summary and Conclusion Over the last year or so, since Intel's Core microarchitecture and Conroe core were ready to be unveiled at ...

We have posted a myriad of information related to Intel's Core microarchitecture and Core 2 Duo and Extreme processors over the last few months here at HotHardware.com.

For instance, a $699 price gives the buyer a desktop with Vista Home Basic, an Intel Core i5-750 processor running at 2.66GHz, an 80GB hard drive, 1GB of DDR3 memory and the AMD ATI Radeon GPU.

NDAs dropped today on Intel's latest dual-core offering, the Core 2 Duo E6750. The CPU is a close cousin to the E6700, clocked at the same 2.66GHz speed but with a faster 1333MHz bus. In fact, it ...