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Looking for a laptop? Then you may have heard the hype about Intel's new Centrino Duo mobile technology. Our tests showed that it lives up to some claims but falls short on others.

The new chipset provides longer battery life and faster wireless data transfer than previous versions. But it doesn't deliver promised gains in application speed, memory use, 3D graphics, or video quality. Our findings are based on first looks at several new laptops with the latest version of Centrino Duo.They arrived as we were completing our current Ratings of laptops using the previous generation of chips. We're running full tests on models with the new circuitry, and results will ...

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