Sonoma: The Second Generation of Intel's Centrino Mobile Technology. sonoma. Intel's new Sonoma platform increases the FSB clock speed of the Pentium M, and introduces a new chipset family with such features as SATA, PCIe, and DDR2 dual channel memory support....

• -Old And New Vineyards For Centrino Mobile Technology
• -Brief Outline Of Centrino History
• -Conclusion
• -DDR2 Memory In Dual-channel Mode Does (hardly) Anything In Practice
• -Features Of The Test And Comparison Systems
• -Upgrade Problems: Coexistence Of DDR And DDR2
• -Battery Life
• -Intel's "Social Welfare" Program: New CPUs & Chipsets For The Same Cost As The Old?

the 945GM and the older Sonoma (Centrino) platform's 915GM to see if the former is really faster and more energy efficient.. To compare the newer Centrino Duo chipset (945GM) to its predecessor the Centrino (Sonoma) 915GM, we selected two ultra-portable...