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AMD ATHLON X2

Affordable dual-core PC performance with true multi-tasking for today’s mainstream notebook PCs
Make a smart choice for an enhanced Windows Vista™ experience with an AMD Athlon™ X2 Dual-Core Processor for Notebook PCs. You’ll get a notebook PC designed to enable the affordable dual-core performance for true multi-tasking with great value using powerful processing and leading graphics, and wireless technologies.

• Affordable Dual-Core PC Performance

Enjoy affordable dual-core PC performance with true multi-tasking for improved digital media and gaming—all designed for today’s mainstream notebook PCs.

• Notebook PCs That Are A Smart Choice

Notebook PCs that are a smart choice designed with outstanding technologies and great performance—all at a price that makes sense.

• Enhanced Windows Vista™ Experience

Get a notebook PC designed with AMD64 dual-core performance, superior graphics and wireless technologies from AMD’s ecosystem partners for an enhanced Windows Vista™ experience.

• Enhance How You Live, Work, And Play

AMD teams with industry leaders such as Atheros, Broadcom, Marvell, NVIDIA, Ralink, and others to deliver technologies that are optimized to enhance how you live, work, and play.

Product Features

AMD Turion™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Mobile Technology Overview

• AMD’s most advanced family of dual-core processors made for mobility—delivering outstanding multi-tasking performance in thin and light notebook PC designs

• Simultaneous 32- and 64-bit performance and designed to be compatible with the next generation 64-bit Windows operating system, Microsoft® Windows® Vista™.

• Rich choices for customers of all kinds —long battery life, better security with Enhanced Virus Protection , and designed for compatibility with the latest wireless and graphics technologies—today and tomorrow

Leading-edge Mobile Performance

• AMD64 dual-core performance delivers exceptional multi-tasking and multi-threaded performance for both 32 – and 64-bit environments

• Featuring AMD’s innovative Direct Connect Architecture for leading-edge dual-core processor performance

• HyperTransport™ technology boosts overall system agility so your applications are responsive and you get incredible performance

• AMD Turion™ 64 X2 dual-core mobile technology featuring AMD Digital Media XPress™ delivers a rich experience on today’s multimedia-enhanced software, enabling stellar performance and playback quality on digital entertainment such as games, streaming video and audio, DVDs, and music

• As a leading innovator in today’s microprocessor technologies AMD products offer lasting reliability and cutting-edge technology

Enabling Your Mobile Lifestyle

• Uniquely optimized to support today’s innovative thin & light notebook designs empowering highly mobile business professionals and consumers living today’s on-the-go lifestyle

• AMD PowerNow!™ technology , the first dynamic power management technology in the industry, delivers performance on demand and can extend system battery life up to 65%

• Compatible with currently available 802.11a, b, g, and Bluetooth wireless solutions, AMD Turion 64™ X2 mobile technology enables mobile PC users with integrated Wi-Fi certified WLAN technology to keep in touch. Anywhere mobile users go—from the airport, to poolside, to a remote office location—they can access the Internet, check e-mail, and stay connected

Richer Choices

• Allows customers to choose among the best in wireless connectivity, graphics, and security

• Renowned industry innovator AMD collaborates with industry-leading technology companies to bring you a powerful notebook with the exceptional performance and mobility you expect

Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor

Based on Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor family is designed to provide powerful energy-efficient performance so you can do more at once without slowing down.

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo desktop processors

With Intel Core 2 Duo desktop processor, you’ll experience revolutionary performance, unbelievable system responsiveness, and energy-efficiency second to none.

Big, big performance. More energy efficient. Now available in smaller packages. The Intel Core 2 Duo processor-based desktop PC was designed from the ground up for energy efficiency, letting you enjoy higher performing, ultra-quiet, sleek, and low power desktop PC designs.

Multitask with reckless abandon. Do more at the same time, like playing your favorite music, running virus scan in the background, and all while you edit video or pictures. The powerful Intel Core 2 Duo desktop processor provides you with the speed you need to perform any and all tasks imaginable.

Love your PC again. Don’t settle for anything less than the very best. Find your perfect desktop powered by the Intel Core 2 Duo processor and get the best processing technology money can buy. Only from Intel.

• Up to 6MB L2 cache

• Up to 1333 MHz front side bus

Features and benefits

Delivering the best overall performance. Period. With Intel Core 2 Duo processors powering your desktop PC you’ll get the latest arsenal of performance-rich technologies, including up to 6MB of shared L2 cache and up to 1333 MHz Front Side Bus. And, all of the latest additions to the Intel Core 2 Duo processor family are built using Intel’s 45nm technology and Hafnium infused circuitry. You’ve got the future of computing now, and only from Intel:

• Dual-Core Processing, combines two independent processor cores in one physical package. Processors run at the same frequency and share up to 6MB of L2 cache and up to 1333 MHZ Front Side Bus for truly parallel computing

• Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution, enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve execution time and energy efficiency

• Intel® Intelligent Power Capability, designed to deliver more energy-efficient performance and smarter battery performance in your laptop

• Intel® Smart Memory Access, improving system performance by optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth

• Intel® Advanced Smart Cache, providing a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for multi-core and dual-core processors

• Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost, accelerating a broad range of applications, including video, speech and image, photo processing, encryption, financial, engineering and scientific applications

Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition

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. 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.

In fact, you’ll experience maximum performance for whatever you do, thanks to the combination of Intel® Turbo Boost technology and Intel® Hyper-Threading technology (Intel® HT technology), 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

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.
• 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.
• Intel® Smart Cache provides a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry leading multi-threaded games.
• Intel® QuickPath 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.

Notebook and desktop PCs with Intel® vPro™ technology enable IT to take advantage of hardware-assisted security and manageability capabilities that enhance their ability to maintain, manage, and protect their business PCs. And with the latest IT management consoles from Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) with native Intel vPro technology support, IT can now take advantage of enhanced features to manage notebooks over a wired or corporate wireless network- or even outside the corporate firewall through a wired LAN connection.

PCs with Intel vPro technology integrate robust hardware-based security and enhanced maintenance and management capabilities that work seamlessly with ISV consoles. Because these capabilities are built into the hardware, Intel vPro technology provides IT with the industry’s first solution for OS-absent manageability and down-the-wire security even when the PC is off, the OS is unresponsive, or software agents are disabled.

• Security, multiplied

The hardware-based capabilities of Intel vPro technology improve network traffic filtering and isolate clients under attack. Automatic security agents’ verification and immediate remote restoration enhance your preventive security efforts. And with reliable remote power-up functionality, you can deploy off-hours patches faster, speeding up patch saturation by up to 56%. Additionally, the hardware-assisted antivirus protection of Execute Disable Bit protects your PCs from certain viruses that use buffer overflow attacks.

Protecting virtual environments against rootkit and other attacks, Intel® Trusted Execution Technology (Intel® TXT) offers extra protection on PCs with Intel vPro technology and built in Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT). Including an industry-standard TPM 1.2 which can be used by third-party software to store keys and other protected data, Intel TXT enables the PC to boot software into a truest state and also helps protect the integrity of the virtual machine.

• Maximizing manageability

PCs with Intel vPro technology can help IT professionals diagnose and repair both wired and wireless systems remotely, cut downtime, and reduce the average in-person IT support time. Intel vPro technology helps perform remote asset tracking and checks the presence of management agents virtually anytime. This functionality allows you to conduct hardware and software inventories up to 94% faster than manually per PC.

• Energy-efficient performance

As the multi-core engine in Intel vPro technology, 45nm hafnium-based Intel® Core™2 Duo processors can provide over 90% faster performance when multitasking and over 90% faster performance on compute-intensive apps. At the same time, their great energy efficiency enables smaller, quieter systems and delivers great battery life for mobile PCs. These 64-bit PCs offer full support for Windows Vista, including Intel® Graphics support for the Windows Vista Aero interface, and the performance for Microsoft Office 2007 and other next-generation software.

Keep your workforce more secure, managed, and mobile. With security and manageability built right onto the chip, Intel® Centrino® 2 with vPro™ technology provides hardware-assisted remote isolation, diagnostics, and repair, so you can manage your mobile workforce remotely, even if the system’s OS is unresponsive.¹ And with exceptional dual-core performance, 5X better wireless performance and the longest possible battery life.

Features and benefits

• Best for business, providing state-of-the-art threat protection against security threats enabled by hardware defense filters and agent presence checking.

• Mobile performance. Providing the next level of mobile performance, new Intel Centrino 2 with vPro technology is designed for today’s needs, future 64-bit applications, and next-generation multithreaded software.

• Increased energy-efficiency. Built on the latest 45nm Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, Intel Centrino 2 with vPro technology provides industry-leading, energy-efficient performance.

• Longer 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 the longest possible battery life.

• Faster, more predictable wireless. Experience up to 5x faster connectivity speeds with 802.11n wireless technology improving reliability while decreasing connection loss.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Broad industry support from leading manageability and security software providers like Symantec, LANDesk, HP, Microsoft, and Cisco.