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Pentium, Schmentium - Decoding CPU Names
Could you tell me which processors you offer for this notebook," I recently asked a direct sales rep for one of the large PC manufacturers in this country. A simple question for a simple answer, one would think. Not so in this case: "It's a Centrino," the rep told me. After clearing up that Centrino is not a processor, the rep insisted that there is only one version of the Pentium M processor offered by Intel. Being told that there are in fact 75 (!) different packages of Pentium M processors available at this time left the rep speechless. ... "
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