Back in September, Intel announced the T9600, a mobile Core 2 Duo CPU 2.8GHz with FSB 1066 and 6MB cache.

As you know, you can never get fast enough and Intel already made plans for a 2.93GHz version of this mobile CPU. The new CPU is branded Core 2 Duo T9800 and it will run at 2.93GHz with FSB 1066 and 6MB cache.

It will cost $530 at launch and it is expected to launch in Q1 2009. The current plan is that dual and quad-cores for notebooks launched in September should hold the water before this new Q1 2009 speed update comes. This clock update is rather evolutionary, nothing revolutionary, but very few will say no to even faster notebooks.