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5 unusual facts about Centrino


Centrino

Laptops with Intel vPro technology have hardware features that allow a system administrator to remotely access wired and wireless laptops for maintenance and servicing if the operating system is unresponsive or crashed and, when a laptop is connected to AC power (not on battery power), allow a sys-admin to remotely access the laptop when the system is asleep or laptop power is off.

The codename Calpella refers to the sixth-generation Centrino platform.

Intel used "Carmel" as the codename for the first-generation Centrino platform, introduced in March 2003.

Pentium Centrino

Centrino, the combination of Intel Pentium M, 855 and PRO/Wireless chipsets

Universal usability

For example, would a software product be usable to users running Windows XP on a Centrino laptop with broadband Internet access and to those who have Windows 98 on a Pentium II desktop with 56K dial-up?


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