The original iPhone, iPhone 3 and even the 3GS have processing power comparable to a Pentium 3 from 10 years ago that is barely able to run Flash.

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But they ran into a wall when the last Pentium reached 3.8 gigahertz and was hot enough to bake a scone inside a server.

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We have to wonder if perhaps the forthcoming 3 gigahertz Pentium 4 might find its way to this machine.

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The high-end version comes with a 3.06GHz Pentium processor, 512MB of RAM, and a 200GB hard drive.

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My Pentium II 333 with a Voodoo 3 3000 set on medium detail averaged from 50 fps to 100 fps indoors and 25 fps to 60 fps outdoors.

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It is plugging the multimedia power of its Pentium II processor with demonstrations of 3-D Web sites such as Virtual Arsenal - a tour of the Premier League champions' ground, the forthcoming Legal and General estate agency site which lets visitors tour homes inside and out and the Internet-enabled game Forsaken.

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It runs on Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Windows XP and requires a PC with an Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Pentium 4 running at 1.3 gigahertz or higher, though a chip running at 2 Ghz or higher is recommended.

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The first Centrino-branded chips are expected to show up sometime before the summer and debut at clock speeds of about 1.6 gigahertz--considerably slower than Intel's flagship Pentium chips, which now top out at about 3 GHz.

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