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I’m finally getting more serious about replacing my well-used HP Omnibook 4150. It is now over four years old, and has been on a few hundred thousand miles of business travel. The computing world, networking, and my work have all changed since 1999 when I originally got this system, so there are very different choices available now.

Of immediate interest, the new Intel Centrino chipsets are due to be launched next week January 19th. The Alviso chipset runs a 533MHz frontside bus, while the new Dothan processor will have up to 2MB of onboard cache. The net effect is that the new systems should have similar battery life improvements to the earlier Centrino chipset, but with improved system performance.

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