‡¹ The best ultra-thin notebooks have Intel Inside®. Get best-in-class performance to run all your favorite applications flawlessly with the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor. These claims are based on performance testing using SPECint*_rate_base2006 on a class of processors designed for use in ultra-thin laptops with a Thermal Design Point (TDP) of 10 Watts or less. The TDP is the maximum amount of heat a chip or a system is able to dissipate. For detailed results and more information go to www.intel.com/performance/mobile/ultra-thin/.

SPECint*_rate_base2006 and SPECfp*_rate_base2006 are capacity-based metrics used to measure throughput of a computer that is performing a number of tasks. This is achieved by running multiple copies of each benchmark simultaneously with the number of copies set to set to the number of logical hardware cores seen by the operating system. SPEC* CPU2006 provides a comparative measure of compute intensive performance across the widest practical range of hardware. The product consists of source code benchmarks that are developed from real user applications. These benchmarks depend on the processor, memory and compiler on the tested system.

SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp, SPECrate are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. For more information go to www.spec.org/spec/trademarks.html.

‡² VirtualDub* 1.8.8 is a video capture/processing utility. It is streamlined for fast, linear operations over video and allows users to batch-process multiple tasks on multiple video files. DivX* 6.8.5 is a format for digital video. The workload for VirtualDub is a 66.2MB 110second MPEG2 video file in 720x480 resolution at 5Mbps. It is converted to DivX format with 720x480 resolution with a total size of ~10.3MB. Extrapolation is used to calculate the number of 5-minute videos you can prepare in 10 minutes.

‡³ Adobe Photoshop Lightroom* 2.3 is a photography application that lets you manage, adjust, and present a large amount of photographs. For this scenario Lightroom 2.3 is used to resize 125 ten-megapixel and 75 six-megapixel JPEG photos at 480x360 resolution for posting to Facebook* or viewing on portable devices such as an iPhone*. The photos are also used to create a personal HTML web gallery that can be published online. Extrapolation used to calculate the number of images you can prepare in 3 minutes for upload to Facebook.

‡⁴ Apple iTunes* 8.1 is a digital media application that can be used to manage digital music such as converting from one digital audio format to another. In this case, Apple iTunes is used to convert 61 minutes, 24 seconds of music from WAV to MP3 format with a bit rate of 160Kbps for listening on your Apple iPod*. Extrapolation used to calculate the number of 3-minute songs you can convert in 3 minutes.

Σ Pegasys TMPGEnc* 4.6 allows you to take almost any video file and encode it to your desired file format including DivX*, AVI, QuickTime*, MPEG 4-ISO, H.264, DVD-Video, DVD-VR, HDV camcorder, Blu-ray* disc, and much more. The input file for this workload is a 1-minute, 16-second, 29.97fps, 1920x1080 video clip with VBR encoding and a total size of about 1.12GB. The output is an HDV format MPEG file with 1920x1080 resolution, 29.97fps and 25000Kb/s CBR encoding. The extrapolation used calculates how long to create a 5-minute video.

‡⁵ Performance tests and ratings are measured using specific computer systems and/or components and reflect the approximate performance of Intel® products as measured by those tests. Any difference in system hardware or software design or configuration may affect actual performance. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems or components they are considering purchasing. For more information on performance tests and on the performance of Intel products, visit Intel® Performance Benchmark Limitations.