I’m looking to buy a laptop. I see one advertised on Amazon.com, and the item description says:
Lenovo ThinkPad T60 1951 - Core 2 Duo T5500 / 1.66 GHz - Centrino Duo - RAM 512 MB - HDD 60 GB - CD-RW / DVD - GMA 950 - Gigabit Ethernet - WLAN : 802.11a/b/g, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR - TPM - fingerprint reader
So, what is it, a Core 2 Duo or Centrino Duo? Is Core 2 Duo just another type of Centrino chip? I wanted a fast computer, but after doing some google searching, I still can’t figure out what the terminology means.
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A “centrino duo” is the name for the collective group of: Intel chipset,
intel wireless card and an intel core 2 duo processor
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Thanks, man. I just bought that laptop, and I saw the “centrino” after I bought it, and I thought I had bought some kind of outdated pentium 4. Good to know it’s a real core 2.
have a lot of fun with it 
Yep, and you know what’s going on it…SuSE Linux!