Will Core Duo Notebooks Trade Battery Life For Quicker Response?
Tom’s Hardware has a twenty-five page overview on the Intel Core Duo notebooks, and what you are getting if you buy one. It is probably much more in depth than is needed for a question that could be answered with yes, or no, but that is half of the fun behind reading some of the articles on Tom’s Hardware.
Related Posts:According to vendor reports, the battery life for the new dual core platforms in notebooks using Intel’s integrated graphics core isn’t supposed to decline at all, when compared with the previous generation (Sonoma). Our first measurements on a prototype device with a dedicated graphics chip (ATI X1600) paint a completely different picture, however, and this detracts from the positive impression that the new technology’s improved performance creates. We can only guess whether the relatively modest battery lifetimes we observed in our test system are due to the graphics subsystem, the chipset itself, or a combination of these elements. That said, as we’ll prove later in this article, this new CPU is definitely no energy hog.