Anandtech i5 preview

[Shintai]

Whether it is supposed to be that or not, as a consumer, the rate of improvement in Intel's offerings leave me underwhelmed, all things considered.

The slack bastards are going way too slow for my liking in improving performance available to desktop users.

Nehalem/Westmere is mainly a platform simplication and server design. And it proved amazing in both. You also got abit of extra performance as benefit.

Alot of people just got too greedy in expectations after Conroe. AMD and Intel cant deliver that in the same segement each time.

[Chad Boga]

Alot of people just got too greedy in expectations after Conroe. AMD and Intel cant deliver that in the same segement each time.

I never expected miracles with Nehalem on the desktop, so that wasn't such a problem, but when you throw in that 12 months after Nehalem you get hardly any advancement and Intel's 32nm rollout is also doing F#$% all for desktop users who want a good boost via Quads.

[Shintai]

I never expected miracles with Nehalem on the desktop, so that wasn't such a problem, but when you throw in that 12 months after Nehalem you get hardly any advancement and Intel's 32nm rollout is also doing F#$% all for desktop users who want a good boost via Quads.

You get 6 core Westmere(Gulftown) in about half a year. You get 32nm dualcores. And after that you also gonna get some 6 core Lynnfield replacements.

So again I dont get your point. You simply sound as you are overexpecting everything. You get a new uarch each 24 months. Not each 12. Also i7 aint 12 months old yet is it? i7 was released on november 17th 2008. In short i7 is about HALF A YEAR old.

[Chad Boga]

You get 6 core Westmere(Gulftown) in about half a year.

Which as a Desktop user is going to give me nothing and less than a higher clocked Westmere Quad would, but Intel isn't making available.

You get 32nm dualcores.

Which as a Desktop user are less useful to me than a Quad(what I believe to be the sweetspot for 2010 onwards, Duals would have been fine a while before)

And after that you also gonna get some 6 core Lynnfield replacements.

Which wouldn't be as useful as a Quad that could clock higher in the same power envelope.

So again I dont get your point.

Uhmm how about as I have stated more than enough times for you to understand now that as a Desktop user, Intel's efforts are pretty uninspiring.

You simply sound as you are overexpecting everything.

Rubbish. You sound like you are wanting to be an Intel apologist for everything.

Not each 12. Also i7 aint 12 months old yet is it?

What part of "by the time these get released", didn't you understand?