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Even if they're confident that Intel can't or won't enforce their old trademark, "Core 2 Duo" has to be up there on the scale of unnecessarily un-Googlable names.

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It will produce many non-relevant results for query: "OS + Core 2 duo" from G*.search.engine.ai.now :-P

Btw: For all who don't want pay a lot of money.

MEBUS has interesting smartwath HW [1] here in EU. This smartwatch cost *only* 9.90 EURO per Unit in supermarkets (2025-March Albert/Kaufland/LIDL)

May be someone can find how to reflash it... Quite good design high availability here in EU ultra low cost.

[1] <https://www.mebus-group.de/en/produkt/70149-smartwatch/>

their stated reason [0] for that is "It’s almost exactly a Pebble 2, upgraded with modern chips and new tricks. Duo is short for ‘Do-over’."

[0] https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watch...

That’s an interesting rationale from them, especially as neither word includes the letter “u”, and “duo” for “do over” is neither obvious nor established.

Hopefully they exercised better judgement in the design of the product.

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