Intel intros enhanced laptops

It provides for faster processors and chipsets, better video and graphics, faster wireless signals, better security and manageability

Intel India today announced a host of new technologies, including faster Intel Core2 Duo processors, for its latest-generation Intel Centrino processor technology used in notebook PCs for consumers and businesses.

It provides for faster processors and chipsets, better video and graphics, faster wireless signals, better security and manageability. It is designed for energy efficiency to enable great battery life.

More than 230 Intel Centrino Duo and Intel Centrino Pro processor technology-based designs from PC manufacturers, resellers and integrators around the world are expected to take advantage of these and other features this year. Intel said in a statement.

Notebooks would come with designs ranging from fully loaded, 17-inch wide-screen models ideal for entertainment to tiny, energy-saving notebook PCs that weigh less than three pounds, Intel statement added.

“When we introduced Intel Centrino four years ago, Intel changed the computing landscape with our mobile innovations,” said Ramamurthy Sivakumar, managing director, Intel South Asia. “Now, simply said, we have improved virtually all aspects of Intel-based notebooks, the most popular and fastest growing computing market segment in the world.”

At the heart of the new Intel Centrino Duo and Intel Centrino Pro processor technology-based notebooks is the next-generation of Intel’s highly acclaimed Intel Core2 Duo processor, delivers breakthrough mobile performance and responsiveness for demanding business users and consumers alike.

The Mobile Intel 965 Express chipset family with Intel Clear Video Technology enables an enhanced high-definition video experience. Intel Turbo Memory is an optional feature, that can access frequently used software applications twice as fast and reduce the amount of time it takes to turn on, or boot-up, a laptop by as much as 20 per cent. In turn, these faster speeds save on power consumption and increase battery life.

“Intel's Centrino Pro processor technology now allows the inherent benefits of Intel vPro processor technology to be implemented in a mobile solution. Built-in features like remote management could potentially reduce infrastructure downtime and cost, in a form factor traditionally harder to keep tabs on due to the portable nature of notebooks," said Reuben Tan, research manager, Personal systems, IDC Asia/Pacific.