The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    What DELL is doing by putting LV CPU's in their inspirons !!

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by sasuke256, May 4, 2013.

  1. sasuke256

    sasuke256 Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    495
    Messages:
    1,440
    Likes Received:
    449
    Trophy Points:
    101
    Hi everyone,
    Is it normal that every single laptop of the inspiron brand (not ultrabook) are equipped with ulv cpus !! they clame it is an "i7" and people in my country are simply thinking they are getting a quad with high performance but they are getting low voltage cpu that kills the limited gaming capacities of the machine !
    knowing that we have only the "inspiron classic" models in my country, i'm obliged to wait the next insprion refresh before getting a new laptop..
    What dell is thinking by killing their own machines !
     
  2. SAiLO

    SAiLO Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    35
    Messages:
    516
    Likes Received:
    243
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Not in the UK.
     
  3. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

    Reputations:
    2,962
    Messages:
    8,231
    Likes Received:
    63
    Trophy Points:
    216
    They are leveraging the fact that 90% of people don't need anything more than a ULV i7 in order to reduce the size and weight, which more people care about.
     
  4. tijo

    tijo Sacred Blame

    Reputations:
    7,588
    Messages:
    10,023
    Likes Received:
    1,077
    Trophy Points:
    581
    What Commander Wolf said, it allows them to reduce the thermal envelope of the notebook and for most consumers, an ULV core i will get the job done. For the CPU model #, I'd say, Dell is just taing advantage of the fact that Intel has a rather convoluted naming scheme for their CPUs...