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Articles: Dell, HP, others debut Dothan laptops

Posted by admin on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 - 03:08 AM

A slew of notebook PC vendors lined up behind Intel’s three new Dothan Pentium M processors with new and updated systems that feature the improved chip.
The new Pentium M processors based on the 90 nanometre Dothan core can run at faster clock speeds than their predecessors based on the Banias core. They also feature twice the Level 2 cache with 2MB, allowing the chip to store larger amounts of frequently accessed data close to the processor. The new processors are also Intel's first with its new processor numbering system - the Pentium M 735, Pentium M 745 and the Pentium M 755. Chips built with the Dothan core take on the 700 series label, and the last two digits of the label reflect the overall performance of the chip based on factors such as clock speed, cache size and front-side bus speed. Older chips based on the Banias core will retain their clock-speed product labels. The two leaders in the notebook market, Dell and HP, will support the chip on several notebooks for enterprise and consumer users. Customers can choose configurations of Dell's Latitude business notebooks, the Inspiron 8600 consumer notebook or the Precision M60 mobile workstation with the 735, 745 or 755 chips. All of HP's enterprise notebooks will support the new chip in configurable models, as well as a number of fixed configurations available through retailers and HP's Web site. IBM also announced new models within its ThinkPad notebook line on Monday. The ThinkPad T42 and the mobile workstation T42p are both available with the Dothan-based Pentium M chips. Gateway and Toshiba also joined the Dothan launch party with new systems.

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