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    How will Intel price cuts affect the price of new laptops?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Manshu, Jul 5, 2007.

  1. Manshu

    Manshu Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey there.. I've read in a article somewhere that on July 22, Intel will be making price cuts as much as 50% on its processors.. so I'm just wondering if that is going to have a major effect on the price of laptops? Specifically Dell 1720 and HP dv9500t.

    Thanks
     
    Manshu, Jul 5, 2007
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  2. riffjaff

    riffjaff Notebook Evangelist

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    No, not really I think. It just means that you will get a better processor for the price of the processor below it......meaning you can get a T7500 for the price of the T7300, T7250 for T7100 and so on. Laptops won't really lower in price overall much at all.
     
    riffjaff, Jul 5, 2007
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    I was searching on this about a week ago, and every article I found said September 2nd. So unless they've moved up the price cuts fairly significantly, you might be getting a little over-excited.

    Also, IIRC, the price cuts were about 50% on Intel's quad-cores, 32% on the T7700, and 24% on the T7500. So it's not quite as big a price cut as it first appears when you see 50%.

    The T7500 cost $316 for manufacturers at release, and probably is still at the same price, so you're looking at a $75 price cut. For the $530 T7700, you're looking at a $159 price cut. Hopefully that'll put it into a more $-based perspective - remembering of course the full discount will likely not be passed on to the consumer.
     
    Apollo13, Jul 5, 2007
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  4. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    I agree, that is a good point.

    In my opinion the T7500 is cheap enough as it is, but I'm not complaining if it drops a bit more . . . :)
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Jul 5, 2007
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    It could be the case that notebook manufacturers will only reduce the prices when their current stock runs out...make sense this way...
     
    akshay_blitz, Jul 5, 2007
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  6. chuck232

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    July 22nd is the desktop CPU price cuts, followed a little later by server CPUs. The notebook CPUs don't get the axe until sometime in early September.
     
    chuck232, Jul 5, 2007
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