Celeron with Wireless... hardly...

Centrino uses a Pentium M chip. A core designed by a joint Israeli/Europe/US Intel team to design an x86 LOW power core from the ground up. This core is NOT a modified P3 or P4 core but a new core... e.g. to take on forthcoming higher performance Transmeta cores (remember those guys... I'm sure we haven't heard the last from them)

Performance on par with an average P4, BUT MUCH MUCH MUCH lower power consumption.

The core has none of the power wasting optimizations that showed no real world performance. Pentium M's also use a low leakage manufacturing process....

[This message has been edited by NickP 1K (edited 07-30-2003).]