Intel announces quad-core Core i7 Extreme and Core i7 for laptops (update: now with reviews!)

As expected, Intel just announced its Clarksfield laptop chips, bringing Core i7 to the laptop form factor. There'll be three chips, two regular quad-cores and a Core i7 Extreme that can run as fast as 3.2GHz in Turbo mode, which selectively shuts off cores and uses the extra power to speed up the remaining cores while preserving battery life. The parts were demoed working in shipping-ready form on stage, but pricing and availability weren't mentioned -- we'll let you know what we can dig up.

Read - Intel's Core i7 Mobile press release
Read - HotHardware's Core i7 Mobile review
Read - LegitReviews' Core i7 Mobile review
Read - Laptop Mag's Core i7 Mobile laptop review

[Jamus Posted Sep 23rd 2009 1:41PM]

What can we cook on them?

[Ruben Posted Sep 23rd 2009 4:19PM]

Alabama Marinated Duck

[Teer1998 Posted Sep 23rd 2009 1:54PM]

Maybe the Mac fan club can clear this up for me, why does the mac user need this kind of power? Thought the mac user was happy to have a stable platform.

For the record built my own core i7 920 desktop, and I have never used a Mac. Not a hater, just not that interested.

[AlO Posted Sep 23rd 2009 2:04PM]

lol I agree with you on that. They all like to brag about there Macbook Pros and how great battery life is and how great OS X software is etc. etc. I hope they know a Core i7 processor is going to take battery life down to like 1 hour tops.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 23rd 2009 2:52PM]

For the record, who cares if you want/like Macs or not?

[Teer1998 Posted Sep 23rd 2009 4:12PM]

@Jeremy

I'm sure no cares what I want or like. It was more a commentary on the number of "I want this for my mac" comments I observed. I was surprised at that, so posed the innocent question why do you want it for your mac.

Added the for the record comment just to clarify that I was not bashing the mac user/lovers, just curious. Don't be such a hater.

[Bigballs Posted Sep 23rd 2009 8:26PM]

@AI.O.

How will it take battery life down? This chip has the same TDP as the chips apple uses now(other than the exteme edition). Battery life should be very comparable.

[macslut Posted Sep 24th 2009 1:33PM]

@Cdub,
"why does the mac user need this kind of power? Thought the mac user was happy to have a stable platform."

Why would a Windows user need this kind of power? Considering many Mac users also run Windows, the answers are going to be the same.

For me, I'm doing all kinds of stuff at the same time on my laptop. Encoding HD video is a huge part of the desire for speed, but at the same time, I'll very likely be running Photoshop and may be watching or listening something in the background and switching back and forth from running Windows in Parallels for testing stuff...have all kinds of windows open in different browsers with Flash apps, etc... In short, I don't want the speed of the machine telling me what I can or can't be doing at any time.

Stable? I'm not sure what you think makes the i7 unstable.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 23rd 2009 2:50PM]

If it helps:

Here's a Stats Chart for all the products launched today:
http://bit.ly/IDF09products

Also, all of the http://bit.ly/Clarksfield processors & the http://bit.ly/PM55chipset

Hope it helps!

[Ahmed Alzayani Posted Sep 23rd 2009 6:48PM]

Now i get it!

so "Clarksfield" (mobile Core i7) can basically operate in 3 modes:

1. 1 core @ 3.2GHz (what so called "turbo mode")
2. 2 cores @ 3.06GHz ( i imagine this your everyday mode)
3. 4 cores @ 2.26GHz (Stock speed when running to much threads but using all 4 cores)

see http://www.legitreviews.com/images/reviews/1084/slide5.jpg

Interesting new concept, i wonder if it can be hacked to run all 4 cores @ 3.2 GHz speed.

Now someone need to update Wikipedia with all these information.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 23rd 2009 9:17PM]

I am waiting for the new 6 core processors from AMD. These new chips are twice as fast as the Core i7.

[jon Posted Sep 23rd 2009 9:27PM]

If you click your heels together 3 times while you say that, someday it might come true.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 24th 2009 2:10AM]

The AMD Magny-Cours shreds wPrime scores compared to the Intel Core i7. Do some research and you won't come across as another tool.

[pablogyds03 Posted Oct 4th 2009 8:50PM]

not just fast but,