Recognizing that manufacturers continue to cram desktop chips into laptops, Intel has been developing technology to improve the experience of people who buy desktop replacement notebooks. Today, the chip maker is bringing out the Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processor, a modified version of the standard P4. As with its desktop counterparts, the Mobile P4 runs at speeds up to 3.06GHz and has full Intel NetBurst microarchitecture. Hyper-Threading is turned off, though, and the front-side bus is only 533 MHz, not the 800 MHz supported by the 875P (formerly Canterwood) chipset. These reduced features, along with support for Enhanced SpeedStep technology and for Deeper Sleep technology, enable the desktop core to achieve more notebook-like battery life.

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