If you think that what's behind the Centrino is merely a new processor for notebooks, then Intel's marketing squad is going to tell you a thing or two. Because lying beneath the Centrino, including the Centrino Mobile Technology, is a combination of the new mobile processor Pentium-M (codenamed "Banias"), the new Intel 855 chipset family ("Odem", "Montara-GM") and a WLAN adapter in mini-PCI format called Calexico, which is based on the 802.11b/a standard. Only notebooks with this whole package have Intel's approval to carry the name 'Centrino Notebook'. As soon as one of the above is missing, it ain't Centrino no more.
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