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Re: Speaking of outdated kit

@AC; "it's the dual-core Pentium 4 successor, based on Pentium 4. There was no mobile CPU version of Pentium D."

Was there ever a Pentium 4-based mobile processor, full stop? I'd be surprised if there was.

As I remember- and Wikipedia confirms- Intel's mobile line around that time (the Pentium M) was based on the Pentium III, and it started to get a reputation as a serious choice for those wanting to build a more energy-efficient *desktop* PC.

That last bit- along with the fact that the Pentium 4's increasingly energy-hungry architecture was a dead-end anyway- probably explains why they used the (Pentium III-derived) Pentium M as the basis of the first-generation Intel Core chips.

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