Whats the smallest laptop you can put a Quad Core in?

I notice that the price if the Q9000 on newegg isnt that much more than customizing most laptops with a highest dual core available, but for curiosity's sake (I dont think I would need a laptop with a quad core,seeing as my desktop is running a Q9550 OC'd @ 3.6 ghz), I was wondering if the Intel quad cores would fit in any..say,13 inch laptops?

 

It all depends on the socket and chipset. If they support it, sure.

Probably wouldn't be a good idea from a thermal standpoint, though.

 

Q9000 has 45 watt TDP. Sony Z can have 35 watt CPUs.

Probably Intel will come with quad core CPUs with lower TDPs later.

 

The smallest would be 15.4" currently. I doubt you will see quad cores in any smaller sizes until 2011.

 

please do not comment if you don't know what you're talking about. there is a 13" quad core laptop here

 

Two questions; whats the USD price, and is it available in the US?

 

yeah...how much is P59,999?

You can get the MSI EX-300 on Amazon for $900 and a Q9000 engineering sample on ebay for $200. wonder if it'll work?

 

its round $1200. laptops in the Philippines are really expensive. around 30% to 100% more expensive compared to the US

 

I love the blue one, is it available in Newyork?

Have a look at the MSI EX300 laptop detailed specs:
http://www.newtechnology.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/msiex300-specs.jpg

 

Thanks for informing me, I didn't know this existed. But can you even get this model in North America? Or is it only available over there. Any notebook with a PM45/GM45 Socket P can fit a quad core, it's really if any manufacturer would provide the proper support for it (BIOS, cooling, power, etc).

Still this is like the one 13" laptop that has a 9600M GT in it (LG P310, only in certain places in UK). You can't get this model in North America and no other notebook has this as a default configuration, so really, it's not in any notebook less than a 15.4". When you find a quad core in a 13" Dell, HP, or Lenovo, then we'll talk.

 

Thanks for posting the information but please stop telling other people not to comment. It is normal that people sometimes don't have all the information. That is the way forums work.

 

I'm from the Philippines, too, but it's highly unlikely that they'd exclusively sell high-end laptops here and not in other countries (I'd readily believe if they'd exclusively sell low-end ones, actually ) but yeah, it exists here, so it might exist everywhere else.

Also, I have a 14.1" laptop and it has the PM45 chipset. It's compatible with quads, although for other units you'd want to update the bios or possibly any bios has quads locked.

 

I have done this recently, you can read about it here.

To summarise, you need to realise that there are two components to TDP... Heat generation is one, and power supply is the other. You would be pushing the heat limit in a small laptop, that is, assuming it can supply enough current for the quad in the first place.

I discovered that the proper quad version of my mobo (in HP 8530w) has an extra power supply stage, so it can supply 50% more power than the non quad version. The quad CPU has a huge transient current requirement over the duo's, even over extreme duos (with the same 45W TDP), to the tune of around 50%. Coincidence, I think not.

 

Well even if that MSI EX300 laptop is small and has a quad in it, the GPU is crap so there's no point buying that laptop...

 

Not everyone wants to play games on their computers. There are some people that use their computers for number crunching for example, where a quad core comes in very handy.

 

Didn't someone here on NBR put a Quadcore into a Vaio SZ??

That's 13,3"

 

Well...

I Like it.

I could go on... but why ruin the moment..

Rep up.

JW