You may have read the media coverage of Intel's blazing new processors, the first significant jump in processor technology in five years. They're so much faster than current processors that the tech magazines and labs are stunned. And they use less power, allowing them to run cooler. Yesterday the mobile versions of the processors for notebooks were rolled out.
This is a quantum leap. It's huge. Consequently Intel has dropped the price of its older processors and there's a lot of them in the channel, but there's every reason to believe that within six months the new processors will be the only reasonable choices on the market.
This new line of processors are named "Core 2." There are several models with the name "Core 2 Duo" and one named "Core 2 Extreme." Shop carefully as you are going to see a lot of low price "Dual Core" models, but if you want the newer technology, go for the "2".
Portions repeated from BruceB.com/news.
