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wbmw, re: Except that everything Intel has been saying about Yonah is that it will offer equal battery life and form factors as Dothan, but with the availability of dual core for free.

That is because in mobile operation only one of the cores will be active while still having the availability of all L2 when needed. It's a good concept.

If however double core functionality would be forced when not plugged in to the net Yonah will have lower battery life as its TDP is in fact higher, plus two cores idling will rather likely consume more power two than current single core.

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