Penryn soon for Inspirons, then other XPSs

According to Computerworld ( http://www.computerworld.com/action...rticleBasic&articleId=9062119&intsrc=hm_list), Dell will start introducing penryns to the 1420, 1525 and 1720 Inspirons. Penryns will follow for the other XPS systems.

 

Yup, Latitudes and Precisions are the last to get upgrades because Dell likes to road test them and make sure they're very proven before sticking into their business machines - but the bad part of that is that its hard to get bleeding edge tech in Latitudes and Precisions.

 

so there's a good chance that penryn will be in latitudes and precisions by the end of the year? that's when I'm planning to buy a d630

 

How long before the penryns come to the 1530 cause I need a laptop soon and can't wait for longer than a couple weeks.

 

What? That really doesn't make sense, most intel products are very well tested and Dell would have enough faith in them to put a new product of theirs in all Dells.

I am guessing that it is a stock issue, not a reliability or testing issue. Shortages of the Penryn's have been rampant.

 

Amen! I'm about ready to just get a thinkpad T61p with a T9300. I can't imagine what is taking Dell so long when other manufacturers are offering multiple models with Penryns. I'd LIKE to buy my third Dell laptop, but I can't wait forever.

 

there is nothing wrong with merom, differences are unnoticable

 

Hope that that willl happen soon.. I am desparetly waiting for the penryn based inspiron.... (i am on a tight budget and looks doesnt matter to me)

 

The D630 will probably not be around by the end of the year, as an upgrade will have replaced it, but you should see the Penryn in the D630 very soon.

 

Yup, looking at a 5-10% cpu performance improvement, and slightly better thermal values.

A user wouldn't even be able to tell the difference.

I'm all for advancements in technology, but this one certainly isn't worth holding out a laptop purchase for.

 

ya I know its just natural update from intel.. So if you have a laptop with santa rosa its probably not worth to upgrade to penryn.. but if we ordered it now.. then it may possible that when we get the laptop... Penryn processor will hit the almost every mainstream laptop.. I know the performance inporvment is incremental.. but I would prefer to wait rather than having a laptop with older processor..

 

Actually, based on wPrime32 results, the successor to the T7500 2.2Ghz 4MB L2 Cache; the T9300 2.5Ghz 6MB L2 Cache is 20% faster than the T7500. (38secs vs. 31secs on non-tweaked vista)

The 5-10% performance increase is with equally clocked Meroms and Penryns.

eg. T7800 2.6Ghz Merom vs. T9500 2.6Ghz Penryn (Penryn is 5-10% faster)

 

Are you sitting there in front of your laptop and looking at wPrime32 results on daily basis or are you playing games, watching movies, doing your homework or simply browsing on your laptop? Give me a break, silly tests for silly people.

 

No need to be so rude

20% is a big difference that WILL be noticeable in everyday tasks, 5-10% is a difference that would be barely noticeable.

 

No one is being rude, I am just saying that those tests are silly for regular users. For me going from 1.5Ghz to 2.2Ghz was noticable because I was doing HD video editing, but browsing internet and other general tasks was pretty much the same on both machines but it looks for some it's important to run comparison tests just so they could justify paying premium to have the latest and the greatest.

 

And it looks like for some it's important to knock down the latest and greatest just because they don't have it.

 

Great! No hard feelings. Let us enjoy our laptops!

You enjoy your new T9300, 5400 rpm HDD, 128MB 8400 GS with WXGA resolution in HP look and I'll do the same with "outdated" T7500, 8600GT, 7200 rpm HD and excellent WXGA+ in a sexy XPS look

oh, I paid aroudn $1200 for it...

 

Well i'm typing this from an m1330 so best of both worlds? and money isn't an issue for me right now.

It's a 14.1" screen so it's more like the equivalent of a 1440x900 on a 15.4"

Anyway, your right, not everyone agrees in life so lets just agree to disagree

 

According to another Computerworld article ( http://www.computerworld.com/action...rticleId=9062119&taxonomyId=64&intsrc=kc_top), Penryns won't start appearing until spring in other XPS laptops (such as presumably the M1530 and the 1730). In the next two weeks, however, 1420, 1525 and 1720 systems will start having Penryns.

Now is that early spring or late spring?

 

US is already shipping XPS 1330 and 1730 with Penryn.... so that only leaves the 1530.

No sight of Penryn at all in the UK - Spring start from March 1st, I really hope it doesnt take that long.

 

actually the sse4.1 instructions give the penryns a huge advantage in media applications. i think benchmarks showed 30 percent. so if you dont record things or encode or decode things then its not worth it.