Core 2 Duo to shake things up

Matt Elliott Senior Editor

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and San Francisco and now lives in New Hampshire. When he's not writing about laptops, Matt likes to play and watch sports. He loves to play tennis and hates the number of streaming services he has to subscribe to in order to watch the various sports he wants to watch.

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Matt Elliott

July 13, 2006 8:09 a.m. PT

Intel's Core 2 Duo launch isn't far away (we can't say when, but rest assured, it'll be soon). These next-generation dual-core desktop processors are certain to shake up the PC landscape. To wit, on its current high-end desktop CPUs to remain competitive until it can ready its next-generation 65nm processors. Prices of Socket AM2 processors could be slashed by up to 50 percent. Meanwhile, Michael Dell states that the Dell XPS 700 will offer an overclocked Core 2 Extreme processor the moment Intel makes the chip available. And we pledge to have full reviews complete with benchmark figures the second the Core 2 Duo chips are announced. Stay tuned...

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