Intel® Centrino® 2 with vPro™ Technology



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Protect and manage your business better by upgrading to notebook PCs built with Intel® Centrino® 2 with vPro™ technology inside. Designed from the ground up for multi-core performance and the needs of IT, your workforce will be able to work efficiently on the go, while IT remains in complete control.¹ And with new power-efficient designs, notebooks powered by Intel® Centrino® 2 with vPro™ technology can aid in keeping energy costs low, while built-in security features help combat the expense of security threats.
Including hardware-assisted isolation, diagnostics, and repair, you can reduce the need for desk-side maintenance by managing your mobile workforce remotely, even if the system's OS is unresponsive.¹ With the ability to initiate a protected tunnel back to IT via wired LAN, notebooks can be managed and repaired even outside of the corporate firewall.¹ And with the ability to remotely shut down and update notebooks, you'll save power and money while increasing security.


Features and benefits
Best for business, providing unique features built right into the chip that deliver added protection from viruses and attacks with hardware defense filters and agent presence checking.Φ
Mobile performance. Providing industry-leading performance,² new Intel® Centrino® 2 with vPro™ technology offers 30 percent faster multitasking performance,³ for future 64-bit applications,Δ and next-generation multithreaded software.
Increased energy-efficiency. Upgrading from desktop PCs to notebooks with Intel® Centrino® 2 with vPro™ technology reduces energy consumption by more than 26x.°
Stay unplugged longer with the best possible battery life. Based on next-generation hafnium-based 45nm technology, Intel® Centrino® 2 with vPro™ technology offers unique energy-saving components designed to give you maximum battery life.
Get unprecedented wireless freedom with up to 5x faster connectivity speeds and more reliable connections than current 802.11g Wi-Fi.Ω
Manage your mobile workforce wirelessly. Remotely diagnose, isolate, and repair infected notebooks using hardware-based remote manageability features that work even if notebooks are off or the OS is unresponsive.¹
Broad industry support from leading manageability and security software providers like Symantec*, LANDesk*, HP*, Microsoft*, and Cisco*.
Reduce maintenance costs and stay compliant. Provide routine patching and maintenance ensuring that you're only paying software license fees for what you're using while keeping your licenses up-to-date.¹
Get the most out of graphics-intensive Windows Vista*. Powerful Intel® Graphics allow you to run Windows Vista* with full Aero* support-without the expense of an additional graphics card.²
It all adds up to mobile computing without limits and a lower cost of ownership. It's just what your business needs, right when it needs it most. Experience it now with industry-leading performance² from Intel.

Intel

Wield the ultimate gaming weapon

Conquer the world of extreme gaming with the fastest performing processor on the planet: the Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition.¹ With faster, intelligent multi-core technology that accelerates performance to match your workload, it delivers an incredible breakthrough in gaming performance.
But performance doesn't stop at gaming. You'll multitask 25 percent faster and unleash incredible digital media creation with up to 79 percent faster video encoding and up to 46 percent faster image rendering, plus incredible performance for photo retouching and editing.¹
In fact, you'll experience maximum performance for whatever you do, thanks to the combination of Intel® Turbo Boost technology² and Intel® Hyper-Threading technology (Intel® HT technology)³, which activates full processing power exactly where and when you need it most.
Product information

• 3.20 GHz core speed
• 8 processing threads with Intel® HT technology
• 8 MB of Intel® Smart Cache
• 3 Channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory

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Features and benefits
Get extreme with your gaming and advanced multimedia.
Intel Core i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in quad-core performance and feature the latest innovations in processor technologies:

• Intel® Turbo Boost technology maximizes speed for demanding applications, dynamically accelerating performance to match your workload-more performance when you need it the most.²
• Intel® Hyper-Threading technology enables highly threaded applications to get more work done in parallel. With 8 threads available to the operating system, multi-tasking becomes even easier.³
• Intel® Smart Cache provides a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry leading multi-threaded games.
• Intel® Quick Path Interconnect is designed for increased bandwidth and low latency. It can achieve data transfer speeds as high as 25.6 GB/sec with the Extreme Edition processor.
• Integrated memory controller enables three channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory, resulting in up to 25.6 GB/sec memory bandwidth. This memory controller's lower latency and higher memory bandwidth delivers amazing performance for data-intensive applications.
• Intel® HD Boost significantly improves a broad range of multimedia and compute-intensive applications. The 128-bit SSE instructions are issued at a throughput rate of one per clock cycle, allowing a new level of processing efficiency with SSE4 optimized applications.