That means price crashes on old stuff! :) A link:
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=12331
With Puma on the way too, the next couple months will be interesting.
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That means price crashes on old stuff! :) A link:
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=12331
With Puma on the way too, the next couple months will be interesting.
The one thing I'm worried about with PUMA is I'm yet to see it return a really decent battery life in a review. It's somewhere in the region of a normal discrete graphics solution which is a shame. Hopefully things will turn around though because in theory it's a fantastic platform :)
Centrino 2 is easily going to have the CPU advantage though, but we knew that already.
I'm a bit confused with all this laptop stuff, I've never looked into laptops before but my girlfriend is wanting to get one in August.
It says that "Centrino 2 platform will be the first mobile platform to take advantage of Intel’s new 45nm Penryn CPUs and the CPUs will run from 2.4GHz to 2.8GHz." yet someone further down in the comments section says that you can already get 45nm laptop cpus :help:
All she wants is something that is over 2ghz duel core which will be able to play Sims 3. Would any of the current crop be able to do this (which would be good since prices will come down) or should she wait since 45nm is obviously better battery wise.
Current intel 45nm laptop cpu's like the T8100 T8300 etc, use 35w as opposed to 25w on the new 45 nm cpus. The usual increase in cache and clock speeds too I imagine.
Intels info on the T8100 for example:
http://ark.intel.com/cpu.aspx?groupID=33916
Heres a link with general info on intel cpus:
http://www.intel.com/products/proces...t/core2duo.htm
In answer to your question I would think any 2GHz+ duel core laptop shoul dhave no problem at all running the Sims certainly the move to 45nm will not be of any great benefit in this area.
htid, take a look a the new dell studio's. Look very nice and you they come with a decent enough dedicated graphics card and C2D chips :)
http://www.dmxdimension.com/dell-uk/...rison-coupons/
yea i hope so. Puma might make a significant impact in the mid range and value segments of the laptop market. The faster AMD move to 45nm the better!Quote:
Originally Posted by staffsMike
Yeah it's deffinatly going to be producing some cheap laptops.
This is the first offering from HP
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4486
Great performance accept of course the battery life, which isn't terrible but I would have hoped for better. I'd like to see what it does for the 12" - 13.3" screen laptops :)
:O_o1: Wow thats very good review there, very encouraging too! Just hope that kind of price doesn't go up too much when/if it moves across to the UK, keeping competition with Centrino and Centrino 2 in mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by staffsMike
I like the fact they are using 64 bit Vista too, about time in my humble opinion! If they had put in a 7200 rpm hd, maybe a 9-cell battery and been a UK site I would have bought it straight away! Maybe in couple of months that will be the case! :)
Some more info has emerged on Centrino 2:
http://anandtech.com/mobile/showdoc.aspx?i=3356
The new sony's look so nice. Having to tell myself how much I hate my current vaio for being a pig to fix or upgrade..
http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/34897.jpg
13.1" 16:9 screen. 1600 x 900 resolution. All the usually goodies you might expect, high end C2D, 9300GS (switchable to integrated).
I have an xps M1330 but .. that is tempting :(
Is it just out in USA then, or is it over here too? If not, any ideas when it comes out over here?
Well the vaio's are up on the UK site :)
Few other manafacurers are listing them as options now. I doubt dell will pull their finger out for a while though.