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What will be the most convenient time to come and pick it up?
Is a "pre production" kentsfield, the same as an engineering sample kentsfield?
What will be the most convenient time to come and pick it up?
Not quite. A pre-production sample is usually made to test that the processes used during full production work properly, whereas an engineering sample comes before the production line is setup as such.
I believe, anyway.
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9pm it is then.
I've always refered to them as Engineering Samples if they have Intel Confidential on the heatspreader, regardless if they are an early stepping or the same as retail.
Pre-production would suggest to me a chip with a stepping prior to that of the shipping product, however this all depends if the phrase is just being thrown around carelessly.
the benchmarks show how awesome the chip is, but like usual if you want the best you pay for it through the ass :S Time to get a second job
Thing is Core2 across the range will be upgraded to Quad in Q1 07
so they are ditching the core duo completely?, and will prices be the same?..i cant see that, although it would be nice
O RLY?Originally Posted by David
But that wouldn't make any sense, as a Core 2 Quad will literally cost double that of a Core 2 Duo to produce and the road maps published around IDF show the Conroe based new Pentium and Celeron chips to be single core. So they'd have no dual core chips on the market and a massive hole in the market where they had no offerings at the price ranges the Core 2 Duo's currently occupy.
Also a quad core Core 2 would be horrible for laptops, it would double the TDP over the current Merom's and murder battery life.
High end desktops.... probably.
Across the range.... no.
Will the release of the quad cores lower the price of the existing dual core range?
I think at first the quad core will just be added to the extreme line up, but when the whole lot swap over to quad core then yeah dual core prices will drop.
game wise, I don't think a quad is necessary for now (other than alan wake)
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