Will Core Duo Notebooks Trade Battery Life For Quicker Response? | Tom’s Hardware. Well, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Early previews of the Intel Duo show there are some power issues. Some folks think it is the USB 2.0 bug in Windows, but we’ll have to see.
The processor itself codenamed Yonah is a dual core mobile chip that Apple is using in their new MacBooks and which will be the replacement for the Pentium M.
Drool, drool. It is fast and if folks can figure out its battery issues, its a real winner!