What are you most excited about in the next few months?

What are you most excited about in the next few months?

1.Merom FSB of 800Mhz (Santa Rosa CPU) reviews. Is the FSB bottle neck is improved plus better battery life as promised?
People are talking about 5-10% extra performance and 5-10% extra battery life.

2.Nvidia go8600GS benchmarks. Will it be able to perform on par with a go7900gs?
This excites me a lot. I love to play games. But i need a laptop that I can carry around and has good battery life at the same time.

3.AMD(ATI) HD 2600 (x2600) benchmarks. On paper it can outperform the go8600.
I wonder when this will come. It has been spoted in online shops but it is strange that the Desktop version isn't even out yet.

4.Intel x3100. Shared memory graphics on par with an x1400?
Things have gone quite. Last news I heared about this was a long time ago. I think the x3100 performance will disappoint. If you cant game with it then it wont bring any benefits over the current chip. The GMA 950 runs Vista Aero so whats the point of going faster.

5.Readydrive with Robson and hybrid disks. Will we see an improvement in Battery life and performance?
So far all the Santa Rosa laptops dont mention much about Robson. I wonder if it will be only for high end systems. I used ready boost and found it promising.

 

i am really looking forward to the nvidia 8xxx series of GPUs in laptops and i cant wait for their benchmarks to see if its worth the upgrade and to see how they out perfrom the curretn 7 series cards
excitin month ahead!!!

 

I'm really looking forward to Leopard and the new range of Macbooks lol.

 

Leopard s delayed till October and I think the new range of Macs with it so I left it out. I was thinking short term May June July.

 

I'm looking forward to the GeForce 8 series, as well as the 65nm Turion X2s.

 

I'm looking forwards to real reviews of how well the GMA X3100 performs in conjunction with Santa Rosa, so I voted for 1 and 4.

I already "know" what the the performance of the Go 8600 will be like, so that doesn't excite me very much

 

Yeah, I'd have to go with you on that (seeing how I keep ending up with integrated graphics lappys).

 

Yeah, at least your Radeon X200M is better than my GMA900

 

Where is the none of the above option??

 

I voted for "Merom FSB of 800Mhz (Santa Rosa CPU) reviews" and "Readydrive with Robson and hybrid disks." I'm not so much concerned with the first as I am with the second. I know Vista can greatly benefit from faster storage access and I plan on having Robson in my next notebook, and hybrid disks if they are available (if not, then I will buy one later and install it myself).

 

All of em. I am always looking for advancements in computing regardless of the area of specialization.

 

I've been waiting for the laptop 8600 to come out since mobile DX10 was even speculated! A 7700 Go would suit me fine, but something DX10 capable is definately worth the wait. And if it's truly on par with the 7900 GS, it's bound to be futureproof, at least for a few years.

 

I am excited about all of the new features that will be available on the Lenovo Thinkpad T61 and Dell Latitude D630.

 

All of them are "interesting" however I like to see technologies that can improve existing systems instead of those that are only available on future systems (requiring new motherboards, storage interfaces...). The ReadyDrive technology with cache built into the drive assembly can help stretch out the life of existing laptops where with Robson you're buying a new one (cache on the MB). Same argument for desktops, servers, etc.

I have always believed that some form of modularity should be built into all PCs, including laptops. We have seen some movement towards standard modular systems, but if we had more options with laptops where you can easiliy replace processor, video, storage, sound and whatever other subsystems had modular replacment parts, wouldn't THAT be nice.

 

Graphics FTW... dun think we ll gain much from merom, but i m very excited about the 45nm cpus tat are coming out next year.

 

I'm interested in everything Santa Rosa but like to mention about battery life. It should improve with dynamic FSB adjustments according to demand and the ability to dynamically adjust each core independently.

 

I didn't vote. None of those interest me. Most are incremental updates to existing technology, and hybrid-disks are just crap. It's like 'readyboost'. It's a cheezy technology designed as a stop-gap measure for people with inadequate machines. It'll fade away unremembered like Windows ME.

The thing I'm most excited about is large and fast notebook drives. The Hitachi 7k200 is the first in a new class of high-end notebook drives that deliver near-desktop performance. It took the hdd manufacturers many months to works the bugs out of PMR recording. Now that it's production ready, the era of big fast notebook drives is upon us, and I believe there will be significant movement in the notebook HDD sector this year. I wouldn't be surprised at all if we see 300GB 7200rpm notebook drives before the end of the year. Anyone wanna bet on it?