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nooo can it be true that some @Intel® Core™ i7 are Dual Core and some are Quad Core

nooo can it be true that some Intel® Core™ i7 are Dual Core and some are Quad Core

Intel® Core™ i7 620M Dual Core

Intel® Core™ i7 840QM Quad Core

ibm lenovo thinkpad thinkvantage

have you just bought a bargain T60 or T61 from bentham ltd t/a morgan computers for less than £150 ? and are you new to ibm lenovo thinkpads ?

if so then you may be interested to learn that ibm lenovo thinkpad thinkvantage is not just a blue button on your keyboard

there are also some associated apps that you can download

  • thinkvantage productivity center
  • thinkvantage system update

so after you have manually installed the intel pro/wireless 3945 ABG network driver you can install the thinkvantage productivity center and use it to run thinkvantage system update which should detect and install all the other device drivers you need such as the intel pro/1000 PL network driver and loads of other thinkvantage utilities !

http://support.lenovo.com/en_GB/downloads/detail.page?LegacyDocID=TVSU-UPDATE

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ibm lenovo thinkpad

ibm lenovo thinkpad

toshiba satellite C660 windows 7 intel drivers

if you are rebuilding / reinstalling a toshiba satellite C660 windows 7 64 bit notebook from your recovery dvds there are a couple of issues to watch out for with the default toshiba provided intel drivers

  1. The Intel(R) Management and Security Application Local Management Service service may fail to start  and generate errors in your system log.
  2. The Intel(R) HD Graphics Drivers depend on DOTNET 3 !

Solutions

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System Logh errors you may see,

The Intel(R) Management and Security Application Local Management Service 
service failed to start due to the following error: 
This version of Intel(R) Management and Security Application Local 
Management Service is not compatible with the version of Windows you're 
running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you 
need a x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then 
contact the software publisher.

The Intel(R) Management & Security Application User Notification Service 
service depends on the Intel(R) Management and Security Application Local 
Management Service service which failed to start because of the following 
error: 
This version of Intel(R) Management & Security Application User 
Notification Service is not compatible with the version of Windows you're 
running. Check your computer's system information to see whether you need 
a x86 (32-bit) or x64 (64-bit) version of the program, and then contact 
the software publisher.

Google Android* OS for Intel® Architecture

Google Android* OS has arrived for Intel® Architecture

When building your Android VM dont forget to add a second disk for your virtual SD card and change the kernel boot params as follows

  • DATA=sda1 SDCARD=sdb1

android intel X86
android intel X86

Intel Core i5 2500K and Intel Core i7 2600K review

Intel Core i5 2500K and Intel Core i7 2600K benchmarks and reviews