A lot of people have been waiting for the release of Vista to buy their new laptops, and, if you're one of those people and are going to buy in the $600 to $900 range, you'll undoubtedly run across the intel t2060 chipset. It's a little bit of a mystery chip.
The T2060 is only found in OEM builds by the major manufacturers, like HP and Gateway.
It is a core-duo chip, but the weakest one with only half of the cache of a regular core-duo (2mb).
Released in January, it's probably going to turn into the most popular centrino core-duo chip, just by the fact that it's in so many budget notebooks.
What's strange is that the t2060 has only one mention on the whole of intel's website and that's hidden within some .pdf. If you were to their support today and ask about the t2060, they'd have no clue. Same with any of the OEMs. Just a little strange.
from http://intel-t2060.blogspot.com/:
"T2060 shows up with cpuz's v1.4, but as T2050 with cpuz v1.3. Puzzling. and what's more, is that with v1.3, it shows two distinct cores, one running at 1600.1mhz and two at 1.mhz.
In other words, Intel has tried to hide the fact that they had sold a two core chip with one channel turned off.
The cpuz v1.4mz shows 800.5 per channel, but will only let you see one channel while stating there are two.
My conclusion is that Intel has intentionally dumped their rejected celeron dual core chips onto greedy and stupid laptop manufactures that want to use Vista as a marketing tool.
It is common for chip manufactures to take a class of chip and rate their speed according to how flawed the chip is, so you've got a 1.6, 1.7, etc. they just shut down the areas that are defective.
When you shut down an entire core, and still market it as dual core, you have crossed the line.
It's not just slow, it's five years obsolete slow." Brent.
