Intel has been quite successful at marketing their “Centrino” sort. Many consumers simply think that they “need” Centrino to get Wi-FI, which is a compelling purchase argument. As notebooks continue to take share worldwide, Intel is officially releasing its Centrino 2 and Centrino 2 vPro offerings today (laptops have already been announced by partners), so what is it and what’s new?

Often falsely described as a “processor” or “processors”, Centrino 2 basically is a “package” or “combo” of Intel chips with the following elements:

• Intel CPU
• Intel Chipset (it controls the main board) with Integrated
  Graphics (cheap but slow)
• WiFi-N (the fastest) adapter and an *optional* WiMAX wireless networking adapter
• (wired) Gigabit Ethernet (vPro only)

In that post, we’ll go by what the specifications mean to you as a consumer (performance, profile factor, connectivity and battery life) and what you can expect. We’ll plus follow the first real-world tests as they come up.

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