There has been more confusion over the use of the term Intel Centrino. An Intel Centrino mobile notebook is in fact a combination of Intel products, with Intel Centrino mobile notebook processor, put together to make a wireless networking, high performance Intel Centrino mobile notebook.

The Intel Centrino Mobile notebook processor is an Intel Pentium M Processor. Misunderstanding between the Pentium M processor and Centrino is general, but the Pentium M is part of the Centrino package. This processor is a variant on the Pentium processors from their desktop range, but with lots of different technologies and additions, making them quite different from the desktop versions. There are a number of Intel Centrino mobile notebook processors offered with the Sonoma revision of Intel Centrino mobile laptop technology. All of the Intel Centrino mobile notebook processors use 90nm manufacturing process, 2MB of L2 cache and different other technologies.

The Intel Centrino mobile notebook processors have some particular benefits which make them suitable for the mobile environment. One of the most clear of the Intel Centrino mobile notebook processor is the low voltage design. Low voltages allow Intel Centrino mobile notebooks to have lower power consumption.

Intel Centrino mobile laptop come with the Mobile Intel 915 Express Chipset. This chipset particularly designed for Intel Centrino mobile notebooks offer many new features. Some of the most notable are the addition of SATA, PCI Express X16 for graphics, PCIe for the other cards inside and DDR2 400/533MHz. It is designed specially with the Intel Centrino mobile notebook processor in mind.

Most helpful for the Intel Centrino mobile laptop is the addition of DDR2 400/53z mobile technology is that it consumes less power, now like the Intel Centrino mobile laptop processor. Power saving is an ever present concern for laptop users who have to work with limited battery life.