Yeah, we've had just about all the
Atom we can handle, and it looks like Intel's just about ready to help us back away from the difficult choice of
sexy form factors for low prices and
sexy form for exorbitant prices. Intel is working on Montevina Plus, which will push
Penryn laptop chip technology past the 3GHz mark, while subsequently sending ULV chips into the mainstream, showing up in laptops ranging from $599 to $1,000, instead of the $1,500+ premiums they currently usually command -- great news for ultraportable lovers that actually want to get a few things
accomplished on the road. Intel also sees 2009 as the year of the nettop, at least in emerging markets, and will naturally be pushing Nehalem all over the place -- with the way chip roadmaps are planned, the economic downturn naturally won't be messing with any planned rollouts for the time being.
posted Mar 8th 2009 7:28AM
GO AMD!
Yes, go AMD (but for desktop CPUs only)
As for Intel, if I could give them a hug I would.
This is the best news I've heard so far this year! My ThinkPad X61s has great battery life (8-12h) with the LV Core2Duo processor, but I do notice from time to time the limits of its power. I could so use that 3GHz sometimes.
With all their processor expertise, Intel still hasn't been able to answer ARM's phone calling.
Intel don't need to. x86 is so widespread it's just a matter of time before every gadget on the planet is infected.
You forget the xscale that intel has since sold
Xscale was an ARM SoC.
KarlW, There are more ARM CPUs in the world today then Intel could even compare to. ARM Is prolific. Everything from Appliances, to Cars, to Mobile Gadgets like Cell Phones and PMPs, etc. X86 carries too much baggage to be able to compete at the same power levels. ARM has the advantage of being able to modify the instruction set to maintain such lower power levels.
As to Paul, current ultra-portables are quite capable of doing work. In fact, I'd argue that current road warriors with their 'under-powered' laptops are more likely to do real work then the so called new breed of road warriors that these new cheap ultra-portables will be targeted at. Photoshopping your next Forum Avatar isn't work. Running a business, doing research, etc., is real work. You know the kind that keeps society somewhat functioning if our idiotic politicians weren't there to screw it up on a regular basis?
Intel and TMSC are teaming up to shrink the Atom even more and have it used in devices other the obvious netbook, nettop we currently see it in. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ibuhUaplUGfh9IpJHGY_gSoInfkQ has the press release from a few days ago.
Hell Yeah !!!!
Now this is more like it, I want more companies to invest more on UMPC technology. UMPC's are the way forward.
How's the battery?? If its good, I want!
Well, I want regardless....
great news about these being in $500-1000 laptops, its annoying that the 2.4ghz 1066fsb is only in incredibly expensive laptops with bluray burners and high end graphics cards.
2.1ghz 1066fsb is only in the £500+ laptops in the uk which sucks big time as thats the slowest of the penryns and yet you have to pay quite alot for it.
Good value laptops only seem to have 2ghz 667fsb cpu's in at the moment, would be nice for those to be replaced with 2.2ghz 1066ghz or similar cpu's as the more speed the better, especially for bluray playback.
those are not ULV chips... ULV chips are in the 1.2-1.6Ghz range and 5-10W
ULV should become the standard CPU, with higher voltage ones for high-end laptops, and not the other way round.
Oh, snap! No they didn't! A boneless rib sandwich. What will they think of next? I ... know I shouldn't eat these, but ... they're for a limited time only.
OK, I'll byte. I've been a road warrior for 30 years. I had the first Compaq luggable and laptops since before they had batteries. Do all the usual business stuff plus programming and some pretty heavy database stuff (with most of the heavy lifting done on servers, since in a networked world, why would you do that stuff on a laptop?) It's been a long time since the laptop I owned had trouble with any of my work software if you don't count Windows.
So what is it I need this much power for? I mean for work. And for most anything else, you know, not work stuff, is it really the CPU speed that's the bottleneck? Really?
The main thing I can think of is photo and video processing, assuming you're doing that on the road instead of at a workstation with a serious graphics card. How big a market is that?
nice, but i dont really need _more_ power, in fact im happy with the new ion plattform, maybe with dual core atom. so give me an old dual core ulv, a dual core atom or a properly undervolted/-clocked c2d, but make it cheap and efficient. thank you.
Is it just a coincidence that a Thinkpad is in the picture? Or is Engadget not telling us something?
Their relationship with Apple is set to "complicated"...
Finally. I am so tired of those underpowered poor man's laptops.
Where does this fit in with the plan to roll out Clarksfield this fall?
Maybe now we can get some tablets that dont run on steam or hampster wheels
Amen
Really, I quite enjoy the idea of a 1ghz processor in a 2k laptop. Tablets could be so nice, yet all tend to fall short when it comes to performance/price (except for that little netbook with the detachable screen that looks kind of nice, but ARM).
Cheaper Vaio TTs then, ah not likely. : )
please make 3ghz z, please make 3ghz z, please...
will this fit in my sony merom sz?
please make 3ghz sony z, please make 3ghz sony z, please...
will this fit in my sony merom sz?
Faster is always better, but I do have to say that the only reason the current gen of laptops seems slow is because the OS is made in Washington. I love my Toshiba Libretto with XP. It's just barely got the juice to do what I need it to do: Office and email. But that's fine with me. In terms of benchmarks, it's slow, but in day to day use, I'd still throw it up against some fancy new machine that's handicapped with Vista.
3ghz x300? sign me up!!
I want to see some better performance in the small form factor chips. I want a 2.4 GHz utlraportable that can actually play a game or two.
I hope this will find it's place in the Dell Latitude XT2....
This makes me so happy! I'm really hoping to see one of these in one of the '09 ultraportables, like the MSI X340 or the Dell Adamo.
- Michael
http://offbeatmichael.com
looks like im gonna have to hold off on that x200 i wanted. :(
When when when?!!!!!