What Is Intel Centrino?

Written by Cody Kahl


You have probably heardrepparttar term ‘Centrino’ thrown aroundrepparttar 107150 laptop world lately. It seems to berepparttar 107151 new craze in notebook technology, but do many people actually know what it is?

In this article we will take a look at this advanced technology, as well as discuss its advantages.

Introduced in March of 2003, Centrino was marketed by Intel to be best new thing since laptops themselves. Centrino machines were described as lighter and faster while conserving more power and running much more efficiently.

The fact is that Centrino actually does work just as good as its creators claim. Not only doesrepparttar 107152 technology allow notebooks to run much cooler, but they are also lightning fast. Let’s take a closer look at what components make up a Centrino equipped machine.

Pentium M Processor – This is definitelyrepparttar 107153 most important piece ofrepparttar 107154 Centrino puzzle. The Pentium M processor uses about ¼repparttar 107155 power of a P4 Hyper-Threaded processor and is so efficient it offers almost a 2 times increase in performance. That’s right, a 2.0 GHz Pentium M Processor is going to be faster than a 3.4 GHz Pentium 4 laptop processor.

Sincerepparttar 107156 Pentium M processor is much more efficient than its counterparts it also hasrepparttar 107157 advantages of running cooler and conserving more battery power.

Intel 855 Chipset – The 855 chipset works so well because it is just as efficient asrepparttar 107158 Pentium M processor. It uses less power thanrepparttar 107159 standard Intel chipset, and only runsrepparttar 107160 parts ofrepparttar 107161 chip that are actually needed. This equals out to even more battery time.

Reclaim Your PC from the Internet Spies

Written by Jason Frovich


Viruses are, however, notrepparttar only malicious software programs out there. The newest addition torepparttar 107149 evil software family isrepparttar 107150 so called Spywares and a good anti-virus program or firewall is not enough to safeguard against these clever programs.

Spywares are known by many names such as adware, trojans, malware, browser hijackers etc. The thing they all have in common is that they will transmit your personal information to companies and individuals who have an interest in knowing about your surfing habits, online purchases, credit worthiness, interests, web searchs, chats, birth date and even your credit card number. The list goes on and on, since Spywares are constructed by promotional companies who need to know as much as possible aboutrepparttar 107151 online consumers to target them effectively. By ewes dropping on you online, these companies hope to be more successful when sending out promotional materials.

Spyware usually enter your PC by piggybacking on other software downloads. Every time you use downloaded or otherwise shared files, including Freeware, Shareware or p2p sharing programs, you standrepparttar 107152 risk of unknowingly infecting your computer with Spyware. Even confirmed virus free music files, films and computer programs can have Spyware stowaways. Once inside your computer, they will hide, monitor all your actions and promptly start telling your secrets to anyone willing to listen.

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