OEMs stick Core i7 in laptops
SMB OEMS are apparently rushing to put Chipzilla's Core i7 chips into laptops.
According to PC World, retailers AVADirect and the Canadian firm Eurocom are offering variants of Clevo's D900F laptop with the Core i7 processor.
The chips were the "world's fastest chips" until Intel released the company's Xeon server processors at the beginning of the year. And the funny thing about them is that they are politically incorrect when it comes to power use.
The laptops being flogged by AVADirect seem to chew through 130 watts of juice but they have more features than you can poke a stick at, which does not help battery life either.
The laptops come with Core i7 920, 940 and 965 quad-core processors running at speeds from 2.66GHz to 3.2GHz and include 8MB of L3 cache. There is an X58 chipset and an Nvidia GPU.
The price tag is also a bit heavy with a starting price of around $2,500 and getting to $6,000 for the more-money-than-sense configuration. µ
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Battery life doesn't matter much in such laptops. People buy them over desktops for the sake of being able to carry them or to avoid a mess of wires.
Oh, no! Don't tell Charlie!
Someone's sticking an nVidia GPU in a laptop again!
- 'simply the fastest' apparently
- although Charlie would no doubt bitch & moan that it's not really a G200 GPU, but really a re-branded G92, blah, blah, moan!
Well, this thing aren't laptops anymore, they could be called Portable Personal Computers... Ha. I should copyright this acronim. Else, someone rich will surely do... ;)
PowerPC, I think someone beat you to it...
Wait for it ... Charlie is going to go troppo over this one.
Remember the last article he wrote about high powered laptops ??
heh heh.
Bet the NVidia mobile chip doesn't last long.
Any laptop manufacturer willing to put an NVidia mobile ship into their laptop obviously doesn't care about their reputation in the marketplace ...
Good lord, people, will you please stop obsessing about Charlie?
And, will any of these machines be available in a 12.1 or 13.4 inch screen form factor?
After september, the i5 would be a better option for mainstream market notebook market, especailly when Intel moves to 32nm production. This is assuming of course that mobile chips come out soon after the desktop chips, but its still plausible.