Stefan Mileschin

Fashion bag maker Intel has taken time out from its busy round of catwalks and shows to release a new batch of fourth-generation Core processors designed for notebooks.

Nine new mobile Haswell CPUs have hit the shops and are a mix of Core i5 and i7 chips that will power performance portables, though a couple are ultra-low-voltage (ULV) processors that can be used in Ultrabooks.

The cheapest one is the i5-4310M at $225 and it will have two cores which will run at 2.7GHz. If you spend $40 more, you can pick up a i5-4340M which goes to 2.9GHz. For thinner systems, there is the 2GHz i5-4310U and the 1.5GHz 4360U. Oddly, the 4360U costs more than the other ULV chip despite having a lower clock speed because it uses Intel's HD 5000 graphics.

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