Comments on ‘Intel's fifth-gen Centrino to launch as Centrino 2’

802.11n? 

Boffin

Any point in launching a product based on a (still) non-ratified wireless standard?

A lot of 2s 

So the sticker on the laptop wil be Centrino 2 Core 2 Duo? Intel is very fond of number 2, eh?

timely news 

Stop

Well! I was planning on purchasing a Dell XPC 1330, recently reviewed here on this site, in the next month or so. Guess I should hold off a bit. Maybe they'll upgrade the cr*p camera on the LED-backlight model at the same time. Just hoping they can still provide XP drivers for the new platform.

Confusion 

"Centrino 2" doesn't make it less confusing in the overall picture. To average buyers this kind of "platform" has no meaning. Instead we hear of laptops with "Centrino Duo processor"s.

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