On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 13:11, Satish Balay wrote: > > > 745 is Intel's chipset designator. > > > > Your laptop (Dell D600) uses the Intel 855 chipset. > > ??? > > 745 is the new naming scheme from intel (aka opteron numbering > scheme). This chip is the second generation Pentium M - (dothan core) > - which is 2MB L2 cache. > > And Pentium M 745 is @ 1.8GHz My mistake - thanks for the correction. I'm used to Intel using the 3-digit numbers describing chipsets. Eg. http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/mobile/855_fam.htm > > Centrino 1.4GHz - described in this theread is the 1st generation > pentium M (banias core) which is 1MB L2 cache. And was released before the new processor numbering scheme, presumably? Cheers, Ben