The glory of the Celeron fell off some years ago, after shining brightly during the last years of the nineties. Intel is keeping the brand alive and in the third quarter it is expected to launch a new series of dual-core Celeron processors. The series will be called E3000 and to begin with there will be two models using Intel’s 45nm technology and specified to operate in the 65W TDP envelope.
Intel Celeron E3200 clocks in at 2.4GHz while bigger brother E3300 boosts a frequency of 2.5GHz. This is accomplished with a processor bus at 800MHz and 1MB L2 cache.
What makes these budget processors extra interesting is that Intel, through its Wolfdale core, hasn’t skipped on the features. Celeron E3000 series supports everything from XD Bit to EIST and Intel Virtualization Technology. The latter makes it possible to use Microsoft’s Windows XP Mode in the new Windows 7 operating system.
Windows XP Mode enables you to run XP specific applications directly in Windows 7 through a virtualized operating system, which requires hardware support.
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