Quote Originally Posted by Newblar View Post
its good to know that amd will finally be updating their turion line, but at the same time intel is updating their line with mobile i7s
http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/.../models-lg.jpg

The mobile i7's from Intel aren't in any direct competition with the AMD chips mentioned above. The 10W-20W difference in TDP means a lot in a notebook as far as size and weight. I would also be skeptical about how often a 55W laptop part like the 920XM could reach it's turbo boost speeds without having to throttle back down.
From the AnandTech review:
The new Clarksfield i7-920XM isn't substantially faster than the old Core 2 QX9300 when it comes to running highly threaded code. The problem is that when running highly threaded code, Clarksfield's Turbo modes aren't able to fully activate. We end up with a Core i7 running at 2.26 GHz compared to a Core 2 running at 2.53 GHz, and overall performance is relatively close.
I can't find the MSRP for the Turion II Ultra's but considering the top desktop Regor is $76 I don't expect that the binning AMD has done for the mobile market drove the price up to the slowest i7 mobile, the 720QM, at $364.