RSSIntel Ships first 'Extreme' Mobile Processor
By Ed Oswald | Published July 17, 2007, 1:01 PM
Intel expanded its line of "Extreme" processors to include chips for notebooks, as well as a new flagship desktop processor on Monday.
In addition, the company also disclosed its plans to debut battery-friendly quad-core processors for laptops by next year. The announcements come as Intel celebrates its one-year anniversary of introducing the Core microarchitecture.
The Intel Core 2 Extreme X7800 is a mobile dual-core processor with both cores running at 2.6GHz. The chip includes built in power-saving features and removes overclocking locks, allowing manufacturers to speed up the processor if they so desire.
"Laptops are the fastest-growing computing market segment, and there is increasing demand from those who crave the ultimate in video, gaming and design computing performance, yet want the freedom and flexibility that a laptop brings," Mobile Platforms Group chief Mooly Eden said.
On the desktop side, Intel has released several new processors, including its flagship Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 quad-core. Each core runs at 3.0GHz and features a 1333 MHz system bus speed.
Intel said that the new processor is most useful for gamers and game developers looking for high performance systems on which to play and develop graphically intensive titles.
Pricing for the X7800 is $851 USD per 1,000 and will be available to OEMs immediately. Availability in new notebook systems will be within the next two weeks. New desktop processors are now shipping to OEMs, with end user availability in two weeks.
Those processors range in price from $163 to $999 USD.
The Intel Core 2's don't have anywhere near the problems in heating that the Pentium 4's did.
The '2' improved on the original Intel Core... these chips will just push AMD further down the gurgler.
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Awesome.
I was thinking of getting a fast computer as a mobile workstation for my work, but I guess I should wait for this since I really don't care much about battery, but just pure mobility and processing power.
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"battery-friendly quad-core"...hmmm. Sounds like a pipe dream. Could be but I don't think so.
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"Pricing for the X7800 is $851 USD per 1,000.."
I wonder how much it is for just one?
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generally about 2% more
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I care less about the faster speed. Please releases cooler processor.
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A healthy mixture of both would be best, personally.
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I'm guessing the "Extreme" name is used to describe the "Extreme" heat problems notebooks that use it will have, no?
Can't count the number of fried 3.0GHz Notebooks that have fried in less than 6 months, regardless of brand. Big meaty processors simply don't mix with notebooks, heck there's enough problems with the Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz mobile chips causing chipset failures already!
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None of Intel's Core 2 processors have caused any chipset failures. As for the fried notebooks you mention, I assume they were using "mobile" Pentium 4 processors. Compared to the Pentium 4, Core 2 processors clocked at similar Pentium 4 speeds put out very little heat.
I do have a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop which uses a "mobile" Pentium 4 3.06 GHz processor. This laptop shuts down to prevent overheating when Windows Vista tests the performance of the laptop for the Windows Experience Index score.
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I've got the 5160 and I've not had overheating problems with it. The fan works properly.
You may have the caked on dust problem whereby dust is pretty much permanently stuck to the fan (thanks to the suction part being on the bottom of the laptop) and renders it useless.
Preventative maintenance is the way forward.
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Its not a "mobile" processor at all, its the desktop chip stuck inside a laptop.
hence why they run like a fine European Oven
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Hence the quotes around the word mobile.
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