Powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo T8400, one of the new CPUs that are part of the Centrino 2 platform, the T8400 has a clock speed of 2.26GHz, a 1,066MHz front-side bus, 3MB of L2 cache and a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of just 25W. Backing up the processor is the new Intel PM45 Express chipset and 3GB of PC2-5300 667MHz DDR2 memory. This gives the Q210 a reasonable overall PCmark05 score of 5,462, while the more intensive PCmark Vantage returned an overall score of 3,474.