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    Santa Rosa cheaper than old Merom?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by dman4x4, Jul 3, 2007.

  1. dman4x4

    dman4x4 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,



    I'm planning to buy a laptop with the new Santa Rosa CPU (800Mhz FSB). I was surprised to find that these CPU are cheaper than the old Merom (Core 2).

    Check out the prices:
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    T7500 (4M L2 cache 2.20 GHz 800 MHz FSB 65nm) $316

T7400 (4M L2 cache 2.16 GHz 667 MHz FSB 65nm) $423
    Complete price list from INTEL website: http://www.intel.com/intel/finance/pricelist/processor_price_list.pdf

    Do you guys have any explanation for this?

    Cheers
    dMan
     
    dman4x4, Jul 3, 2007
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  2. dman4x4

    dman4x4 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Any thoughts? Do these prices mean that T7400 is better than T7500?
     
    dman4x4, Jul 4, 2007
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    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    Intel cut prices for the Santa rosa CPUs and not for the old ones. I think it is also to do with that the T7500 is pretty commen for all laptop except budget models. Many laptops have it as the default CPU where as for the Morom the T7200 was the default and the T7400 high end.
     
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    homer007 Notebook Guru

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    An economic explanation: There are a large number of people who could upgrade to T7400, because there are a large number of socket M laptops out there. Intel keeps price high now and later lowers it to max profit (by getting people who can't wait to upgrade doing it know and those who are more price sensitive waiting to upgrade). This is a basic pricing strategy for certain technology.
    The T7500 is near the bottom for Santa Rosa CPU- so there is no one out there to upgrade to it, so Intel does not need to employ the same pricing strategy.
     
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  5. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    Intel has different pricing for different spots in its lineup.

    I believe reason the T7500 is cheaper than the T7400 is because Intel doesn't have as many processors in its Santa Rosa lineup than it did in its previous Centrino Duo platform. We had these with the latter:
    T5500, T5600, T7200, T7400, T7600
    With Santa Rosa we only have four:
    T7100, T7300, T7500, T7700

    As usual, the third one down is still the best price/performance. The pricing for the Santa Rosa CPUs seem to be more "spread apart", the second one down isn't as expensive.

    I don't think there are a lot of people out there that are looking to upgrade their CPU. The people who are technical like us are not even close to a majority of the population. Intel's not dropping the prices on the older CPUs as far as I know.
     
    Charles P. Jefferies, Jul 4, 2007
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