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Yes, quad-core Sandy Bridge is incredible, even on the low-end of the scale with the i52400. It seems like the power-savings in Ivy Bridge will allow a further
by watmough 15y ago
Yes, quad-core Sandy Bridge is incredible, even on the low-end of the scale with the i52400.
It seems like the power-savings in Ivy Bridge will allow a further transition of this tech down to smaller form-factors.
I wonder if the non-premium laptop space will still remain stuck where it is now though? I'm not sure, 5 years on from 2006, what percentage of consumer laptops are significantly faster in use than my MacBook Core Duo.
- hga 15y agoThe problem with something like non-premium laptops is that cost tends to be the biggest constraint, so they're not going to give you more than the market demands unless that's "free". But who knows? You can't buy a Sandy Bridge Xeon chip that's less than 3 GHz.... (Although I forget the clock rate of the very low power OEM only part.)
- watmough 15y agoThere's some Core 2 Duo-replacements in the 2 core i5s and 7s. http://www.anandtech.com/show/3876/intels-core-2011-mobile-roadmap-revealed-sandy-bridge-part-ii http://www.anandtech.com/show/3876/intels-core-2011-mobile-r... Clocks are 2.2GHz to 2.7GHz, all hyper-threaded. Dual and quad-core. Quite interesting stuff, though I might be annoyed if I bought an i7 laptop then discovered it wasn't a quad-core.