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| Core 3? No, it seems. Core i7. See here: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-nehalem-corei7,news-28921.html. Wtf?
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| Ah yes, I saw that. Cannot wait to get my hands on nehalem. I tell you I'm suffering from cannot have burn out.
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| Strange name. I take it'll be this then? Core i7 Duo and Core i7 Quad (and possibly Core i7 Octo?) ...or are they dropping the Duo/Quad moniker?...or are all 'Nehalems' quad core only? Only thing is all the new socket designs!
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I can't find where it was that I read it, so this is going to be from memory.
They believe that because the Core Duo was designed mainly from Intel P3s, it was labelled as a P68 (using the old Pentium number schemes).
So this is the next step to 7. Might have that wrong way round though.
Here's the story: so pick and choose whether to believe or not 
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Well, yes, the Core Duo was derived from the Pentium III, but the Core 2 Duo was a from-the-ground-up design (pretty much), with little resemblance to the Core Duo. With AMD now on its *10th* genetation (well, 9th, really), it seems bizarre that Intel would be trumpeting a 7th-generation design. The P4 was 7th-generation. The name makes absolutely no sense.
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I tend to think it's a completely random number, rather like the Athlon 64 FX numbers always were. It has no relevance to anything.
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It's all been marketing flimflam for a few years now.
For us enthusiasts there are the sweet spots, like the E7200 or not buying a Q9xxx as the Q6600 is just as good.But basically it's hard to go wrong for most peoples needs.
Only caveat to that is sub £400 laptops, but even then my missus has no probs with a Celeron 1.7Ghz and VHB - just needed more ram which now comes as standard.
Lately my quest has been to find a laptop for a reasonable price that has a CPU that supports virtualization rather than raw power.
The T5500 is king of the £400 - £500 and damn good it is too, problem is it's taken over from the T7xxxx which is now the territory of mucho expensive kit. Hey Ho, now Centrino 2 is out I'm hoping for some bargains to appear for Santa Rosa kit which is now so last Wenesday
BTW Centrino 2 is not worth worrying about unless you have a compatible Draft N wireless router.
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