Intel Sandy Bridge chip leaked in Acer, Gateway, Lenovo notebooks

Source: http://www.electronista.com/

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Discoveries today have uncovered one of the first processors using Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture in a handful of notebooks along with as yet unannounced AMD mobile graphics. The Acer Aspire 5750, an unknown Gateway model and a Lenovo IdeaPad Y560P all show the Core i7-2630QM, a quad-core 2GHz processor. Most details aren't known of the chips themselves, but most should be accompanied by the HM65 chipset part of Intel's future Huron River platform.

Sandy Bridge will still be based on the existing 32 nanometer manufacturing process, but the new architecture will include Advanced Vector Extensions to improve performance in certain media and math tasks and better handling of out-of-order execution. The integrated graphics may be the biggest leap as a brand new core will exist directly on the processor and give dedicated-level video performance that may include OpenCL general-purpose computing acceleration.

Some of the notebooks also have the Mobility Radeon HD 6550 or 6570. Their details remain a mystery but are likely to see them as direct replacements for the 5500 series. The desktop Radeon HD 6000 series primarily improves the performance per watt as well as adding antialiasing and hardware tessellation.

Intel has already confirmed that Sandy Bridge will get its debut at a CES keynote, making it very likely that all of the notebooks and AMD's graphics will launch at the same time.

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Soon... :D

oooo, integrated graphics here we come !!! This sounds extremely nice!... Wonder what gaming laptop asus have to offer also?!

Fusion will be better imo, because of the GPU superiority when it comes to AMD.

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Fusion will be better imo, because of the GPU superiority when it comes to AMD.

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In this price class you get discreet mobile gpus, so i can get best cpu performance with good gpu performance.

The articel eben mentions that there will be notebooks with discreet HD6xxx mobility gpus.

So they couldn't wait? Not strange, SB's IGP is actually designed for laptops. That's where it makes most sense.

I've already predicted that SB will revolutionize laptops. It will be interesting to see these IGP + Quad-core babies in action.

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So they couldn't wait? Not strange, SB's IGP is actually designed for laptops. That's where it makes most sense.

I've already predicted that SB will revolutionize laptops. It will be interesting to see these IGP + Quad-core babies in action.

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Revolutionize... na but a good leap forward. The IGP is not bad, we already know numbers from the HD2000 and they are quite faster then Clarksfield and the mobile parts get the HD3000, so i guess we will see a good jump in that regard, but still wont touch dedicated mobile gpus.

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Revolutionize... na but a good leap forward. The IGP is not bad, we already know numbers from the HD2000 and they are quite faster then Clarksfield and the mobile parts get the HD3000, so i guess we will see a good jump in that regard, but still wont touch dedicated mobile gpus.

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There is a fine line there, revolutionize... or a good leap forward, whatever we call it. These IGP will improve the biggest weakness of current laptops, and eliminate the need for a dedicated GPU for business/desktop use, which is the primary usage-area for laptops per today.

Except those confused people who wants to game on a laptop, who would need a dedicated GPU in laptops after these IGP? I would call it a revolution, but won't argue with those who mean it's a good leap forward.

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In this price class you get discreet mobile gpus, so i can get best cpu performance with good gpu performance.

The articel eben mentions that there will be notebooks with discreet HD6xxx mobility gpus.

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Llano will have a discrete level of GPU perf. integrated on die(~5750 class),with more than good cpu performance ;). Those are family 10h+ cores with aggressive new power gated Turbo.For a notebook user,a difference between SB CPU cores and Llano cores will be barely noticeable in real life usage in many if not most workloads.But,the difference in their fps when they play a game will be more than noticeable.On top of that,Llano will be able to do Hybrid CF with discrete GPUs too,so a major plus.

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There is a fine line there, revolutionize... or a good leap forward, whatever we call it. These IGP will improve the biggest weakness of current laptops, and eliminate the need for a dedicated GPU for business/desktop use, which is the primary usage-area for laptops per today.

Except those confused people who wants to game on a laptop, who would need a dedicated GPU in laptops after these IGP? I would call it a revolution, but won't argue with those who mean it's a good leap forward.

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we already had the revolutionize vs evolution argument.
SB has a weak IGP and its only going to change maybe 1W compared to a separate IGP. as the chips become bigger (and both about similar size) then the effect of merging them becomes more apparent.

how is SB going to change anything for business laptops? if your saying they couldnt do anything before on intels old igp, then it sounds like they "fixed" something, instead of revolutionizing it.

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Llano will have a discrete level of GPU perf. integrated on die(~5750 class),with more than good cpu performance ;). Those are family 10h+ cores with aggressive new power gated Turbo.For a notebook user,a difference between SB CPU cores and Llano cores will be barely noticeable in real life usage in many if not most workloads.But,the difference in their fps when they play a game will be more than noticeable.On top of that,Llano will be able to do Hybrid CF with discrete GPUs too,so a major plus.

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Even with the shader specs simmilar to a HD5750 it will be massivly memory bandwidth limited, we already saw this for the barazos platform review (a HD5450 spec wise with only 8GB/s and bandwidth shared with CPU only gives ~70% of the performance of a discreet card.)
And thats only with a bandwidth deficit of 40% (12,8GB/s compared to 8GB/s)

A HD5750 has 73,6GB/s memory bandwidth that it hasn't to share with anything. Even for desktops with ddr3-1600 you only get 25,6GB/s (thats 2,8 times less) so more in the ballpark of a HD55xx.

But we are talking mobile here so i doubt we see fullspeed ddr3-1600 but more like DDR3-1333 or even DRR3-1066.

(Mobile) IGPs still suck, and even first generation fusion wont change this. If you want to play games, buy a graphic card. Gaming on notebooks is a chapter on its own.

In any case,the perf. difference will be huge between the two,no matter how you look at it(with or without enough BW). For most users that buy a laptop and still want to game occasionally without buying an expensive laptop with discrete GPU,Llano will be a better choice.And if they decide to buy a discrete card,they can choose one compatible with Llano's GPU for CFX.

I'm going to step in here and say that the AMD guys get ripsheet when the Intel guys come into the AMD cpu threads so lets try and keep this OT on the Intel chip ok?
Thanks for listening:up:

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In any case,the perf. difference will be huge between the two,no matter how you look at it(with or without enough BW). For most users that buy a laptop and still want to game occasionally without buying an expensive laptop with discrete GPU,Llano will be a better choice.And if they decide to buy a discrete card,they can choose one compatible with Llano's GPU for CFX.

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Why are we talking desktop all the sudden?

edit: When we stay desktop, you might want to look at this:
http://ht4u.net/reviews/2010/amd_ati...d5550_roundup/

It compares A HD5500 with GDDR3@800mhz and DDR2@400mhz (25,6gb/s vs 12,8gb/s) and a oced HD5500 with HD5570 specs.
As you can see this chips hunger for memory bandwidth, a chip with 320 SPs with same clocks is often faster then the same chip with 400 SPs just because the 320SPs chip has the better memory bandwidth.

I have no intention to make the integration of GPUs into the CPU look bad, but i am a gamer and a realist. People make it sound like this new approach will open them a new world of gaming experience, when in fact its just marketing bull:banana::banana::banana::banana:. We are exactly there where we left off, IGP can and will run older games decent on low res and low details but if you up the details or the res your again in the sub 30 or een sub 20fps range, and there it doesn't matter if one IGP runs 9,6fps or 18,9fps, both are unplayable...

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Originally Posted by informal

In any case,the perf. difference will be huge between the two,no matter how you look at it(with or without enough BW). For most users that buy a laptop and still want to game occasionally without buying an expensive laptop with discrete GPU,Llano will be a better choice.And if they decide to buy a discrete card,they can choose one compatible with Llano's GPU for CFX.

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Well... Lets see how many shaders will be in mobile llano parts. Last roadmap I saw hints for 100W TDP for 4-core parts and 65W TDP for dual core parts (with, probably, weaker IGP). Any way, "to game occasionally" you can on any notebook. Depends on what game you play. Personally i enjoy playing "Plants vs. Zombie", bejeweled and "Crayon Physics" even on my atom netbook.

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whoops nevermind, mods to the rescue....

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Originally Posted by hornet331

why are we talking desktop all the sudden?

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well... Lets see how many shaders will be in mobile llano parts. Last roadmap i saw hints for 100w tdp for 4-core parts and 65w tdp for dual core parts (with, probably, weaker igp). Any way, "to game occasionally" you can on any notebook. Depends on what game you play. Personally i enjoy playing "plants vs. Zombie", bejeweled and "crayon physics" even on my atom netbook.

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please..

more details also on the HP DV7 series

http://pinoytutorial.com/techtorial/...-release-date/

Looks like Intel’s Core i7-2630QM chip will be making its way to laptops now courtsey of HP’s dv7. Here’s a look into XE378EA – HP Pavilion dv7-5000ea Entertainment Notebook PC.

hp pavilion HP Pavilion dv7 5000ea w/ Intel i7 2630QM : Specs, Price and Release Date Soon

First, here are the specs of this Entertainment Notebook with the new Core i7-2630QM CPU:

* 17.3″ HD+ LED HP BrightView Display
* Intel HM55 chipset
* 2.0 GHz Intel Core i7-2630QM Processor
* 4 GB DDR3 up to 8 GB DDR3 memory
* 640 GB SATA Hard Disk Drive 5400 rpm
* ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 6570 Graphics, up to 2806 MB total graphics memory with 1 GB DDR5 dedicated
* HP Clickpad supporting Multi-Touch gestures with On/Off button
* Blu-ray DVD combo drive
* 5-in-1 Card Reader for SDcards, MMC, MS, MS Pro or xD Picture cards.
* Integrated VGA Web cam and mic
* 802.11 b/g/n WiFi
* Bluetooth
* Gigabit Ethernet LAN
* Integrated finger print reader
* 6-cell Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery
* Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)

although laptop specs are debatable off course, on the intel SB details:

what is the official CPU ghz spec according to some sites its 2.0ghz and others it is 2.2? and what's up with this HM55 chipset sounds strange?
top I7 mobile will have integrated graphics or not?????

http://www.notebookcheck.com/Intel-C...r.41482.0.html

Im sure its the HM65, because its part of the Huron-River platform we see here, and that looks like a decent DTR.

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Llano will have a discrete level of GPU perf. integrated on die(~5750 class),with more than good cpu performance ;).

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I thought that LIano GPU is going to have 400sp or 480sp, which is more like HD5670

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Originally Posted by Hornet331

A HD5750 has 73,6GB/s memory bandwidth that it hasn't to share with anything. Even for desktops with ddr3-1600 you only get 25,6GB/s (thats 2,8 times less) so more in the ballpark of a HD55xx.


But we are talking mobile here so i doubt we see fullspeed ddr3-1600 but more like DDR3-1333 or even DRR3-1066.

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Let us not forget that 25,6GB/s memory bandwidth is shared between the GPU and CPU

im waiting for a Lenovo T Series to include one, give me it already!

Can't wait to see the perf/watt from these new dualcores!

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more details also on the HP DV7 series

http://pinoytutorial.com/techtorial/...-release-date/

Looks like Intel’s Core i7-2630QM chip will be making its way to laptops now courtsey of HP’s dv7. Here’s a look into XE378EA – HP Pavilion dv7-5000ea Entertainment Notebook PC.

hp pavilion HP Pavilion dv7 5000ea w/ Intel i7 2630QM : Specs, Price and Release Date Soon

First, here are the specs of this Entertainment Notebook with the new Core i7-2630QM CPU:

* 17.3″ HD+ LED HP BrightView Display
* Intel HM55 chipset
* 2.0 GHz Intel Core i7-2630QM Processor
* 4 GB DDR3 up to 8 GB DDR3 memory
* 640 GB SATA Hard Disk Drive 5400 rpm
* ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 6570 Graphics, up to 2806 MB total graphics memory with 1 GB DDR5 dedicated
* HP Clickpad supporting Multi-Touch gestures with On/Off button
* Blu-ray DVD combo drive
* 5-in-1 Card Reader for SDcards, MMC, MS, MS Pro or xD Picture cards.
* Integrated VGA Web cam and mic
* 802.11 b/g/n WiFi
* Bluetooth
* Gigabit Ethernet LAN
* Integrated finger print reader
* 6-cell Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery
* Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)

although laptop specs are debatable off course, on the intel SB details:

what is the official CPU ghz spec according to some sites its 2.0ghz and others it is 2.2? and what's up with this HM55 chipset sounds strange?
top I7 mobile will have integrated graphics or not?????

http://www.notebookcheck.com/Intel-C...r.41482.0.html

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That's pretty sweet notebook right there.Is Turbo limit known for that particular SB model?Since the starting clock is rather low,I expect it to use the headroom to "Turbo" pretty aggressively.

@dartaz
You are correct,I've meant 5650 level,made a typo.

mobile computer makers should be emphasis on battery technology to give more mileage

i would prefer SandyM + GeForce 4xxM or 5xxM

and again... quadcore in a laptop... hah...
if you want bad battery life just replace the default one with a 3cell version :p:
oh but wait, that doesnt create the same noise and scorching heat hmmmm...

and again... quadcore in a laptop... hah...
if you want bad battery life just replace the default one with a 3cell version :p:
oh but wait, that doesnt create the same noise and scorching heat hmmmm...

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and again... quadcore in a laptop... hah...
if you want bad battery life just replace the default one with a 3cell version :p:
oh but wait, that doesnt create the same noise and scorching heat hmmmm...

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I think you should look up this term:

Desktop replacement computer

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Originally Posted by Hornet331

I think you should look up this term:

Desktop replacement computer

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i have one of those in my sig....

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i have one of those in my sig....

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I`m sure SB based desktop replacements will offer much more elegant and compact solutions.:D
Any way there is number of laptops out there with relative good battery life and weight 2.8-2.9 kg using i7-720/740QM. I hope SB mobiles won't be more power hungry.

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I`m sure SB based desktop replacements will offer much more elegant and compact solutions.:D
Any way there is number of laptops out there with relative good battery life and weight 2.8-2.9 kg using i7-720/740QM. I hope SB mobiles won't be more power hungry.

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what i built is for ~500W (150-200W cpu, 250-300W gpu, and 50W for the rest) though currently under maximum possible load its only around 350W

and about the i7-740QM, thats exactly whats in my laptop, and it gets no more than 2.5 hours of battery life IN IDLE. its really crappy, and thats with minimum brightness and power saver mode. its a dell e6510 with a 6 cell battery.

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and again... quadcore in a laptop... hah...

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Still barking up this tree? There has always been a market for laptops that are willing to trade battery life for performance. Are you telling me I am using my laptop wrong because I can make use of more powerful hardware? Maybe if you told us the correct way to use our computers we wouldn't offend you with our quad core laptops.

Would like one of those in my X201 Tablet :) and then one of the new intel ssd (even though they do use abit more juice)

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and about the i7-740QM, thats exactly whats in my laptop, and it gets no more than 2.5 hours of battery life IN IDLE. its really crappy, and thats with minimum brightness and power saver mode. its a dell e6510 with a 6 cell battery.

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It was not that long time ago when 2.5 hours was OK for an average laptop with dual-core cpu. And desktop replacement was something weights > 4 kg and with about 90 min of battery life.

Think I'm with Saaya on this one.

Quad core in a laptop is just fine, if you can get some life out of the battery. Until they do, then it's just a DTR. I know DTRs are great and everything, but at least the option of being mobile without having to search for a plug all the time seems more important than running 4 cores constantly on a laptop that you (with exceptions, granted) probably won't need to run all 4 cores on most of the time.

I am interested in knowing, though, whether it'll be a mobile solution.

That is, if it's quad, with igp and a secondary real gpu, then will it swap? On the fly? What will be the max battery life on power saving vs full gaming mobile?

If they've got an 8 hour life on the power miser, and say, 1-2 hours on mobile gaming, I'm good with that, may look at replacing my aging Dell. But not for something that doesn't have at least the option of just messing around for 8 hours or even just close? 6 hours even?

Having a quad in a laptop is great. If it means no battery life? Not great. If you have a tower at home for the big power using features, and a laptop that..also..has big power features...why have the laptop if it's a DTR?

I have 2 lappy's. Well, ones really a netbook but it's good for messing around for 6 hours mobile. The Bigger Dell is my DTR and rarely goes unplugged, but only get's 1-2 hours max mobile gaming on the bigger battery.

If I can replace the pair with one of these, igp/discreet for best of both world and the battery life I want to see, sure! If it's a DTR with a quad and crappy battery life?

Well, I'm with Saaya on that. Quads in laptops? Meh...


Gray

GM your back! its been a while man :D :toast:

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I think you should look up this term:
Desktop replacement computer

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yeah, those 4 cores come in really handy when playing games, oh wait, they dont...
well they are really useful in video and image editing, thats for sure...
but oh wait, they come with 15" screens, awesome when you're editing videos and images, arent they? :P

4cores in a laptop dont make sense
4cores in a DTR makes sense, but not if your stuck with a 15" screen... what kind of a DTR is that in times when desktops have 22-24" screens and workstations 27-30"?

15" quadcore laptops are just as much of a desktop replacement as smartphones are a laptop replacement...

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yeah, those 4 cores come in really handy when playing games, oh wait, they dont...
well they are really useful in video and image editing, thats for sure...

but oh wait, they come with 15" screens, awesome when you're editing videos and images, arent they? :P

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which is why i don't understand the point of a desktop replacement (laptop).
for games, ok i can kind of see it, even tho a 17" screen is incredibly small.
even for video/image editing, you need storage. working off of a usb hdd is too slow.
also u want a good screen, for professional work, meaning IPS.
have fun getting that on a laptop.

i only buy laptops with integrated graphics. why?
cheaper, runs cooler, longer battery life, and because i use my desktop for any real work that needs to be done, and don't forget about gaming.

Last christmas my wife wanted a computer, She wanted it for mostly internet but also liked games like spore, Sims 3 and she also has a HD cam corder she likes to use so being space limited I got her a 18.4" "laptop" quad core ati graphics 4gig ddr3 1000gig HDD, blu ray burner, blu tooth. She never takes it out or even unpluges it, It just slides under the sofa when she is not using it.
Its perfect for the job and she loves it, Others might not.

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GM your back! its been a while man :D :toast:

yeah, those 4 cores come in really handy when playing games, oh wait, they dont...
well they are really useful in video and image editing, thats for sure...
but oh wait, they come with 15" screens, awesome when you're editing videos and images, arent they? :P

4cores in a laptop dont make sense
4cores in a DTR makes sense, but not if your stuck with a 15" screen... what kind of a DTR is that in times when desktops have 22-24" screens and workstations 27-30"?

15" quadcore laptops are just as much of a desktop replacement as smartphones are a laptop replacement...

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Jfyi nowadays DTRs have 17"+ displayes with 1600x900+, just as the one your criticizing.

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Jfyi nowadays DTRs have 17"+ displayes with 1600x900+, just as the one your criticizing.

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agree, would really like this HP DV laptop the only thing I need is a 9cell battery.
I don't care about battery time that much, 2-3 hours is fine for me, it's for work (few Virtual machines) it needs to be fast running many things at the same time, yet able to move for home-work-office-customer etc where you can always plug-in battery. If I travel I will use my pine-trail...(soon to be replaced by some fusion power :D )

Sascha, these really are desktop replacements. For most people those laptops don't make any sense, but for some they are just powerful computers in a smaller package. Yes, they really should leave out the batteries and give them bigger coolers instead, since battery runtime will suck anyway.

I for one will wait for SB dual cores with 10 hours+ battery runtime *kthxbai*

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It was not that long time ago when 2.5 hours was OK for an average laptop with dual-core cpu. And desktop replacement was something weights > 4 kg and with about 90 min of battery life.

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i get a new laptop from work every 2 years.

the one i got 2 years ago was a C2D 2.8ghz and that got 5 hours of battery life with average screen brightness with wifi on and doing light internet usage.

so my battery life is dropped by over half, yet my cpu performance might double only in 1 or 2 very specific cases. honestly its a waste of an upgrade relative to an SSD which fixes the biggest weak point in a laptop.

this is hardly a desktop replacement too, the gpu is quite crappy (like 3000 points in 3dmark 06). most of the weight of a laptop is the screen, due to a bigger screen, you need a bigger frame. the cooling system is less than half a lb going from 10W to 45W TDPs, so that next to nothing for total weight. then theres the battery which should not see such a horrible drop between cpus of similar real life performance.

this cpu is utter trash for a user who isnt going to be plugged in. checking out anand, the best i7-720QM was consuming 19W of power in idle, which was in a 17" laptop they refer to as a desktop replacement. so how does my 15" fall into the same category when the only real difference between the one i had 2 years ago, and todays? just the cpu.

so in summary, some chips may fit into a specific notebook, but then can instantly ruin why you got it in the first place. picking the fastest or most expensive one available dosnt make it the right one

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GM your back! its been a while man :D :toast:

yeah, those 4 cores come in really handy when playing games, oh wait, they dont...
well they are really useful in video and image editing, thats for sure...
but oh wait, they come with 15" screens, awesome when you're editing videos and images, arent they? :P

4cores in a laptop dont make sense
4cores in a DTR makes sense, but not if your stuck with a 15" screen... what kind of a DTR is that in times when desktops have 22-24" screens and workstations 27-30"?

15" quadcore laptops are just as much of a desktop replacement as smartphones are a laptop replacement...

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You still haven't laid out what we should be using our computers for. We need that list or we will never know. :( Should I stop using my laptop for 3D rendering, or do I need to carry around a desktop when I'm not at my desk?

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You still haven't laid out what we should be using our computers for. We need that list or we will never know. :( Should I stop using my laptop for 3D rendering, or do I need to carry around a desktop when I'm not at my desk?

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You should carry your desk, LOL.

Laptops are not meant for heavy duty tasks, like 3D-render, gaming, etc ... I would rather carry around my 12C/24T SR-2, than using a laptop for 3D-render, because even that sometimes uses days to finish a typical descent 3D-render job.

That said, I think it's not a bad idea to have quad-core CPU in laptop. You may sometimes need it for multi-tasking or other CPU-intensive applications. Because these CPU's can save energy by down-clocking/disabling unused cores. So it's good to have several cores in case you need them, in my opinion.

EDIT: But there is a fine line there, because a quad-core is not going to offer much for most typical laptop-tasks.
Those quad-cores should be really power efficient (disable unused cores in a good way) and should also be as fast as a doubles/single-core in single-threats, and the price shouldn't be too much higher either, then why not having a few extra cores on hand?

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i would prefer SandyM + GeForce 4xxM or 5xxM

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If the whole GPU switching works, so when I am on battery it uses the integrated GPU.

With disabling cores, or even being able to change the power profile to use a designated number of cores, the battery life should be OK.

All I ask is for a chip which can run SC2 on reasonably high settings. I don't care who makes it.

as for those decrying memory bandwidth... that's what L3 cache is for. MS did it in the xbox360 and so can AMD/Intel

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i only buy laptops with integrated graphics. why?
cheaper, runs cooler, longer battery life, and because i use my desktop for any real work that needs to be done, and don't forget about gaming.

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yeah... i CAN game on my asus ul30vt, but it sucks... perf sucks, keyboard sucks, display sucks, display size sucks, sound sucks... if id add all those external components id still be limited by the gpu, and if id have a beefier gpu it would make my laptop notably bigger and heavier (heatsink) and notably more expensive...

the only reason i got the VT option with nvidia graphics is cause the intel igp version doesnt support overclocking for some reason... asus only unlocked the pll on the vt versions...

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Jfyi nowadays DTRs have 17"+ displayes with 1600x900+, just as the one your criticizing.

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nope, read the link, the described laptops ate all 15", and even if they were 17", thats ridicuclously small nowadays...

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Should I stop using my laptop for 3D rendering, or do I need to carry around a desktop when I'm not at my desk?

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you should ask manicdan to help you build a suitcase workstation of your own or ask him to build one for you :D
friend of mine had a sleek suitcase system that ran a dual opteron dualcore with 8gb of ddr2 and 2 ati firegl cards in xfire (flexible pciE bridges so they lay flat parallel to the board.

the thing wasnt all that heavy at all, quite surprising!
it didnt contain a display but there are lanparty displays from alienware which are pretty rugged to carry around and not too heavy... :toast:

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you should ask manicdan to help you build a suitcase workstation of your own or ask him to build one for you :D

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sure, my primary language is Cash, with English being my secondary language. ;)

Source: http://www.geek.com/

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Over at NoteBookReview’s forums images of what appears to be the Sandy Bridge-equipped Alienware M17x have been posted. The images, which come from ChipHell.com, show a slightly redesigned M17x (what will be known as the R3, or Revision 3) complete with a snazzy red paint job and all new internal components.

This isn’t a complete picture of the new M17x but we do see some important changes to the processor and graphics. Looking at the benchmarks we can note that multiple systems were tested, one of which was running Nvidia GeForce GTX 460M graphics while another had the AMD Radeon HD 6900M (likely the 6970M). As for the Sandy Bridge processor the Nvidia system has the Intel Core i7 2820QM quad-core while Radeon model had the Core i7 2720QM.

With both systems outfitted with 4GB of RAM the AMD scored 20,155 in 3Dmark06 while the Nvidia got 16,957, despite having a faster processor. With a 2630QM and Intel HD integrated graphics the system picked up a respectable 15,940 3Dmarks.

The hardware changes appear to be minor but the system is missing its ExpressCard slot and it could be slightly thinner than the current model (that could just be the camera angle though). Some commenters pointed out that the size of the trackpad seems larger which appears to be true while others have pointed out the possibility of continuing with the 16:10 display, but my rudimentary measurements tell me that this display is 16:9. (Not having an M17x handy makes things like this hard to confirm.)

http://a.fsdn.com/gc/wp-content/uplo...02-580x432.jpg
It’s always possible that some of the information leaked like this is wrong but we do know for sure that Intel is releasing Sandy Bridge at the at the start of 2011. With this release just about every non-budget laptop is going to be revised in order to update to the new architecture, so there is little doubt that Dell is going to be putting out new Alienware products. At the same time they’ll want to revise the discrete graphics and make sure those new systems are packing the latest from Nvidia and AMD.

We’ll know for sure in just a few weeks (probably during CES), but it looks like Dell/Alienware has some exciting stuff planned.

Read more at the NBR forums.

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Intel IGP score seems too high. This is probably Optimus tech in work. HD 200 should score ~5000.

http://3dmark.com/compare/pcmv/392401/pcmv/394803