August 28th, 2008 by
Filed under: Desktops
If it’s Thursday, then it must be time for more AMD rumors - this time a few different sources report the chipmaker’s given its channel partners the high sign indicating “Kuma” dual-core Phenom-based processors will finally see the light of day. For those too shy to indulge in triple- or even quad-core action, El Reg says Phenom X2 dual core chips will range from 2.3GHz to 1.90 Ghz, sporting 1MB L2 cache and 2MB L3 cache for. Freaky 3-core overclockers can look forward to new, better performing 2.4Ghz Black Edition Phenom 8750s, and more efficient 125-watt Phenom 9950 CPUs, if we can trust leaked German sales charts — and we always do, don’t you?
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May 24th, 2008 by
Filed under: Laptops
Heads up, spec hounds. PC Microworks’ Edge with Centrino 2 (aka Montevina) is a powerhouse that cannot be denied. This speedster sports a 15.4-inch WUXGA screen, packs a Montevina Quad Core Centrino 2 CPU, 2gb of DDR3 at 1333MHz, nVIDIA Gefore 9800M GTX, HSPDA, and up to 4TB of 7200RPM drives. Don’t go running to the credit card gods just yet, though, as the Core 2 Extreme Quad Core QX9300 (2.53GHz/1066MHz/12MB) version won’t be available until the end of July. What’s more, this baby all decked-out will run you a cool $8,265.
[Thanks, Matthew]
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May 12th, 2008 by
Filed under: Laptops
It’s not often we see laptop manufacturers boast of a one-hour battery life, but in the case of Eurocom’s new D901C PHANTOM-X “mobile server,” that spec is certainly hard-earned enough to warrant notice. The battery drain begins with a 2.8GHz Quad Core XEON X3360 processor, which gets paired with 1.5 terabytes of storage in the form of three SATA-300 hard drives (complete with various RAID options), 8GB of DDR2-800 memory, a Blu-ray burner, and a comparatively modest 17-inch display, to name but a few specs. All that, not surprisingly, takes just as big a toll on your back as it does on battery life, with the PHANTOM-X weighing in at a lugabble 12-pounds. No word on a price just yet, but Eurocom’s non-Xeon-based server laptops already easily push past the $3,000 mark, so you can probably take a pretty good stab at assessing the damage to your budget.
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March 14th, 2008 by
Filed under: Laptops
It looks like your favorite lap burner will get all quad-ified this year, thanks to the folks at Intel, and a little something we call “enthusiast pressure.” The hot-to-the-touch CPU rumor mill claims that we’ll see the quad-core, 45nm QX9300 hit the scene after the Centrino 2 (aka Montevina) chips are launched in the second quarter of the year. The general feeling is that the quad-equipped laptops will primarily be heavier, desktop-replacement systems, as the Core 2 Extreme processors are still fairly power hungry. If you haven’t already fallen off the edge of your seat, you have our congratulations.
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November 27th, 2007 by
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When a regular consumer desktop just won’t serve your demanding computing needs, it’s time to go workstation, and Dell’s got a pair of new quad-core-packin’ models that are spec’ed to be some of the fastest on the planet. Both the Precision T7400 and T5400 are available with either one or two of Intel’s newest 45-nanometer Xeon Processors (up to a 3.20GHz X5482 on the 7400), as many as two 1.5GB nVIDIA Quadro FX5600 graphics cards (capable of driving four 30-inch monitors), up to 4GB of RAM (with a whopping 128GB promised using a memory riser card chassis when 8GB DIMMs become available) and either three (5400) or five (7400) hard drives for up to 3TB of storage — all topped off with a little Blu-ray action. Available immediately, the new rigs start at just $1,600 and $1,850, but for a configuration that meets your ridiculous specifications, expect to shell out well north of ten grand.
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June 3rd, 2007 by Money Bags
Intels Quad-Core for Laptops (Images)
If I was a millionaire…
I would buy one of the new Intel quad-core laptops. They will not be released until sometime in 2008 and will be geared toward business and gaming applications. The average consumer would not have the need for this power as most applications do not use multi-threaded technology right now. Not even most gaming software.
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