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In the HWM Malaysia August 2009 issue, on page 250, you’ll find a 4-page Intel Advertorial on how the Dell’s Inspiron 1545, powered by a Pentium Dual-Core 2GHz processor with 800MHz bus and 1MB cache, as well as integrated graphics - fares against the Dell Studio 1555 notebook, powered by the Intel Centrino 2 Processor Technology, with a 2.4GHz processor and 1GHz bus and 3MB cache, as well as discrete graphics.

You can see how the Intel Centrino 2 Processor Technology, even with discrete graphics, enables you to do more in less time. Here we reproduce the screen capture of the MobileMark 2007 1.05 industry-standard notebook benchmark results.

Caption: The Dell Inspiron 1545 MobileMark2007 Results

Caption: The Dell Studio 1555 MobileMark2007 Results

In summary, the presence of the Intel Centrino 2 Processor Technology in the Dell Studio 1555 notebook allowed it to do more in less time, as reflected in the Productivity Test, which is high 150 score in just 208 minutes, as compared to the Dell Inspiron 1545 notebook, which took a longer 211 minutes to complete, but only managed a score of 144.