I see some laptops (not interested in PCs here) have these new chips. Core 2 Duo seems to be the mainstay but what about these Quad Core and Extreme variants ?

As per http://www.intel.com/cd/products/services/...sors/322916.htm

Are these the new thing and Core 2 Duo is obsolete or will be soon ?

Don't want to really buy totally outdated stuff next week.

Any ideas ?

Edited September 9, 200817 yr by torrenova

I see some laptops (not interested in PCs here) have these new chips. Core 2 Duo seems to be the mainstay but what about these Quad Core and Extreme variants ?

As per http://www.intel.com/cd/products/services/...sors/322916.htm

Are these the new thing and Core 2 Duo is obsolete or will be soon ?

Don't want to really buy totally outdated stuff next week.

Any ideas ?

I have yet to see a Socket T (478) Quad Core or Extreme Core2 chip. Meaning that if you get one of those laptops you're getting a desktop chip in a laptop package. Now that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, but if you're expecting to get good battery life out of such a laptop you're fooling yourself.

All three of those chips are based on the Core architecture. And currently there's a very limited set of programs that can take advantage of more than 2 cores. So no, your new purchase with 'only' a Core2 Duo will last you quite a long time. If I could recommend going with a laptop that uses a T9*** or a T8*** I'd reckon you'd be much happier over the long run. Both those series use the 45 nm manufacturing process as opposed to the T5*** and the T7**** series. Thus they run slightly cooler even at higher clock speeds. Battery life is improved slightly due to more multipliers that allows the SpeedStep to function better.

Also, the T8*** and T9*** offer more cache. The 8 series offers 3 MB and the 9 series offers 6 MB.

Technically there's a new architecture coming out soon, the Centrino 2; but if you were to wait for the next cycle you'd always be waiting.

Thanks dave for your help on this and the other posts. Much appreciated.

Thanks dave for your help on this and the other posts. Much appreciated.

Awwwh, sucks, you made me blush.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask!

I've been fannying around on this purchase for too long and the only reason is because I know nothing about the dam_n things (or I didn't). Now I've got to make sure I don't make an arse of myself and buy a bloody lemon !

Dell offers glimpse of monster quad-core laptop

In addition to the first mobile quad-core CPU, the machine - dubbed the M6400 - will support up to 16GB of main memory - and 1GB for the on-board but unnamed GPU. Or GPUs - multiple components seem the name of the game here: it'll also take a pair of hard drives with a total capacity of 1TB.

Now this is a monster. It sure will drain the crap outta the battery.

Edited September 10, 200817 yr by cgbartz