New price point for Core i7 coming in August

A recent report by HKEPC shows that Intel will be cutting the prices of certain key SKUs to make them and the price-point they're targeting, more competitive. For instance, until now available for over US $500, and replaced by the Core i7 960, the Core i7 950 (LGA1366, 3.06 GHz, quad-core) chip will be placed at the $294 price-point, displacing the Core i7 930 2.80 GHz chip.

With the value segment, the socket LGA1156 Core i3 500 series chips will have a new SKU, the Core i3 560. This dual-core chip is clocked at 3.33 GHz, and priced at $138. Intel has recently released its new $200 LGA1156 quad-core chip, the Core i5 760 2.80 GHz. The new pricing will be effective from August 29.

If you went the cheap route on your M17-r2 and were considering to upgrade the CPU looks good in the near future.

 

Nice find.

 

Box versions of desktop procs versus OEM mobile procs are priced much differently. The OEM (in this case Dell) has alot of the control over the price.

 

and mobile chips rarely drop in price the way desktop ones will

by the time the cuts come for desktop stuff, the laptop stuff is already obsolete and no longer offered in new systems (aka Intel does not care about capturing the market)

AND - of all the laptops owned (compared to desktops) almost no one replaces their CPUs

 

yep, mobile platform rarely sees such drastic price drops.

 

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