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    Price cut in current Intel mobile processors?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by cephasara, Dec 28, 2008.

  1. cephasara

    cephasara Notebook Consultant

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    Pardon me for asking if this has already been asked or recently. With the holidays passing (and my high hopes) does anybody know if Intel plans on making any price cuts any time soon? Or will this most likely be the case in the spring when Intel releases their newer batch of montevina processors (and the core i7 mobile processors whenever that will be)? Thanks for the replies.
     
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  2. ramgen

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    I think the next price cut will occur when the newer Montevina (aka Montevina Refresh) processors will be available. And then there will probably be a higher price cut when the Mobile Core i7 becomes available...


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    Voodoofreak Notebook Deity

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    Is T9300 Montevina? I'm hoping price cuts also affect T9300 prices as well. :)
     
    Voodoofreak, Dec 28, 2008
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    PhoenixFx Notebook Virtuoso

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    No, it belongs to the previous Santa-Rosa platform (800MHz FSB / 35W TDP), however it is a Penryn processor manufactured under the new 45nm architecture.

    P.S : Penryn is a processor code name while Montevina and Santa Rosa are platform (CPU + Chipset + Wireless) code names.
     
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  5. cephasara

    cephasara Notebook Consultant

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    Or maybe they released some newer processors today. Two days after I made this thread. Haha.

    http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/12/30/new.intel.quad.core.chips/

    The Q9000 is only 2GHz but is still 45W. Boo. :/ I know it's still quite a feat but still.. I just wish it was 35W instead, like the 2.26GHz quad core using only 35W which was rumored about awhile ago.

    So I guess Intel added some mobile core 2 duos too.. only a few, but maybe we'll see prices drop a little.
     
    cephasara, Dec 30, 2008
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  6. Andy

    Andy Notebook Prophet

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    You won't really see much of a price-drop for the T9300/T9500. Those are the two fastest CPUs for the Santa-Rosa platform, and will always be considered as the high-end performance CPUs for that particular Centrino platform. As they get rare, the prices go even higher and only OEMs will be found on ebay or spare parts sites.

    Though the prices of some of the Core 2 Duos for the Centrino 2 platform should drop, i.e. T9400, P9500, P8600, P7350, etc. with the release of the newer CPUs such as the T9800, P9600, P8700, P7450, etc. Quad-Cores won't really affect the Dual-Core CPU pricing since they need a different type of Socket P.
     
    Andy, Dec 30, 2008
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