Posted Thursday 4th June 2009 19:27 GMT
This whole Core i7 thing has been such a farce. So many people have adopted it only to be told it's more of a workstation chip. Then they announced the i5 on a different socket and yadda yadda yadda.
Good news for consumers: AMD releases £80 wonder chip. Faulty Quad cores with 2 cores disabled sold as a Dual core 3ghz chip. Awesome power for such a cut down price with the added bonus of the chance of those 2 disabled cores actually being functioning. Cheapest Quad core you could ever get. ;)
Posted Thursday 4th June 2009 19:27 GMT
Is it because AMD don't have anything capable of competing so Intel can charge the earth and get away with it? Even buying low-end components it looks like it would cost at least £400 for just the CPU, mobo and RAM. :(
Posted Thursday 4th June 2009 20:12 GMT
I think it is fantastic that we can get this CPU in a Laptop!! Getting mine at:
http://www.lpc-digital.com/store/3302695/product/cl-221-3
Posted Thursday 4th June 2009 20:35 GMT
With all of the hyperlinks in this article, I figured the reg signed up for some sort of contextual link ad company or something (Kontera and friends).
Seriously, we know how to use a search engine, I don't need every second word to be blue so I can be linked to an explanation. This is an IT website.
Posted Thursday 4th June 2009 22:34 GMT
When my PC got too old and sluggish for Vista, I installed Linux. Its like I got myself a new computer, with all the extra speed and KDE 4.3 bling.
RIP M$.
Posted Thursday 4th June 2009 22:34 GMT
It's almost like reading Computer Weekly! :-D
I so used to love it when they'd have things like "RAM (Read Only Memory)"...
Posted Thursday 4th June 2009 23:45 GMT
The i7 laptop you linked to sounds fantastic, especially for RSI-afflicted schmegeggies like me who need voice software generally to use computers, and suffer from too-slow processors etc, but, how much does that beast weigh? Does it come with its own sack-truck? The heat I presume it generates makes me feel a bit scared at the thought of actually putting it on my lap...
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 04:13 GMT
I find it's always to buy whatever is 2nd best as the cost/value is usually far more acceptable than buying the best
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 09:45 GMT
@AC at 23:22 -- Looking at the picture of the underside of that laptop, you couldn't put it on your lap without covering at least one or two of the laptop's four fans. Tons of heat, and lots of noise. Of course, I'd rather have the noise than have the notebook maker use my hard drive as a heat sink. Yes, HP actually did this -- on my Pavilion dv9260nr, the primary hard drive (it has two bays) is used as the heat sink for the video card (NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 with 256MB discrete memory). The end result is that with 24C ambient temp, the CPU is 25C, the GPU is 56C, the primary HDD is 55C, and the secondary HDD is 33C.
As for the i7 chip itself, I have a feeling it won't be a big seller in any form. Simply put, it consumes way too much power (130W TDP). You can get a Core 2 Duo at 65W at the same clock speed. Yes, the Core 2 Duo is only 2 cores instead of 4, but it's also MUCH less expensive. In other words, the i7 is overpriced, in terms of cash at time of purchase and in terms of power used.
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 09:45 GMT
what do you mean by your second paragraph
Im not being sarcastic
Posted Friday 5th June 2009 10:42 GMT
I thought intel where going away from the high power hot running chips. Is not the point of having more than one core being able to run at lower speeds to keep the heat down.
The laptop o the link is just stupid it will be like computing with a vacuum cleaner with a screen attached. the heat that will throw out must be unbearable.
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