Intel made some major enhancements to notebook computers, it released its original Centrino product lineup several years ago. Much of the improvements came from the Pentium M processors that radically changed the way Intel's processors worked. This allowed notebook computers to have longer battery life. Much of this involved new processor support and improvements to the bundled wireless networking chips.

The chipset still would run at its full frontside bus and thus full power. The new chipset and processors allow the bus speed to also vary further reducing power consumption over previous Centrino chipsets. This allows the notebook to run at faster speeds and over greater distances in a compatible wireless network. Even though it is only the draft version now, Intel has promised that a software update