## Tuesday, December 8, 2009

### Netbook with Windows 7 Started can have Dual Core CPU!

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I just saw here that Windows 7 Starter can be licensed in dual core processors!!!
This is in contraddition to what many people say around. The Microsoft list of allowed mobile processors includes many dual core CPUs

- Celeron Dual Core series
- Intel Pentium Dual Core T3XXX series and T4XXX series
- Intel Core Duo series
- Intel Core 2 Duo T5XXX series
- Athlon Neo X2 L325
- AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core series, AMD Athlon II M3XX Dual-Core series

And of course single core CPUs

- Intel Atom N270, N280 , N450, and N470
- Intel Atom Z500, Z510, Z520, Z530, and Z540
- Intel Celeron series, Celeron M series and Celeron ULV SU2300
- AMD Geode, Sempron, and Athlon Single-Core series
- AMD Athlon Neo MV40

On the other hand it is also true that none of the allowed dual core processors is suitable for the netbook market: all the above dual core CPUs are too expensive and dissipate too much power to be used in netbooks.
Microsoft allows use of Windows 7 Starter with dual core Atoms (so far Atom 330 and the announced Atom D510 Pineview) only for desktop/nettop systems.

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