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Earlier this week, Intel released the updated Centrino line of their Sonoma-powered mobile technology.

The updates include improvements to Intel's Pentium M processors, which will run faster while taking up less battery power. According to VNUNet.com, "the update adds new Pentium M chips with clock speeds up to 2.13GHz. The new Mobile 915 Express chipset family also delivers an embedded graphics subsystem with twice the performance of earlier products, plus support for up to 2GB of DDR2 RAM in dual-memory channels.

Sonoma brings laptops the high-speed PCI Express bus architecture for connecting adapters and other components; plus Intel's Pro/Wireless 2200BG dual-mode or 2915ABG tri-mode WLAN adapters."

Almost immediately after Intel's Sonoma announcement, IBM and Dell released notebooks powered by the new technology. Unlike Centrino's debut, the new line will be targeted more towards the home consumer. When the technology launched in 2003, Intel's aim was at the business sector.

Because of the Sonoma updates, Intel expects a wider variety of mobile computers can be offered to potential customers.

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