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title: "Why Doesn't Intel Core Duo Speed up Windows XP?"
date: 2006-11-16T19:51:03Z
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[Intel Centrino Duo Blog](http://www.intelbloggerchallenge.com/ "Intel Centrino Duo Blog")

In boot times or general performance? I expected at least a minor bump between my old Thinkpad and my new X60. But no dice. Its quite disappointing.

I have been in the business long enough to not expect a new chip/OS combo to actually perform any faster, but when its the same OS running on much newer hardware, you might expect something…

Maybe when I install Vista on the new machine I will get go faster stripes. Or maybe I should just go Ubuntu.