Why laptop Xeons now?

If the professional market has managed to do without things like ECC for all these years, why is it suddenly important now?

 

It's not. But apparently people are willing to pay.

Considering that the hardware support has been there all the time and they merely enabled it, there's little cost. Maybe workstation sales was not high as the industry wanted and they are trying to attract more users away from Macs or what not.

 

Marketing.

 

Mobile servers are becoming more of a need on the field and in remote areas. Reason for this marketing.

 

The big Clevos (P570WM, X7200, D900), the ones that could take the actual Xeon chips not this rebranded Core i7 stuff, have served that purpose for years

 

Don't forget the Batman... Which has been the most mobile of the above lot

 

TomJGX, sadly it can't take more than quad cores, thus doesn't count.

 

Money grabber, essentially lock you into getting the higher tier i7 with unneeded features. Yes, I am looking at p50/p70, be damn if there is no i7 option.

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Batman is on the small mainstream socket and takes Xeon E3 only which are rebranded i7, so it doesn't count

 

Part of why is the BGA soldered processors also. If one is going to carry a big brick with a desktop CPU, might as well go for the Gold, and get the Xeon processor.

 

Ok boss... I know you feel sad that you couldn't own a Batman.. No need to run it down all the time...Enjoy your BGA junk

Well Intel uses markettng quite well... It's another trick on their part... Whichever way doubt their mobile Xeon is going to be any good.. Probably going to be locked down and worse then the i7 Xeons in the Batman..

 

Still faster than your Batman

 

Sure in your dreams... My 4790K on 4.3GHz on 4 cores will run all over your BGA turd 4720HQ at 3.5GHz that's if it can hold those clocks haha

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Even the MQ version hardly can.

 

MQ version can hold clocks.. HQ is the problem...

 

3.6 GHz x 4 actually, and yes it holds them. And it has a 980M.

BTW why are you so insecure? Pretty funny how you changed your avatar pic immediately after I called your old one a compensator.

 

play nice, kids

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Market dynamics.

Overall, the amount of money being spent in the PC market is declining about 10% YOY (year-over-year).

But mobile workstations are one of the segments that is growing. These are also expensive products, which mean high profit margins.

PC gaming is also another part of the market that is growing. 16% of PC users are gamers, but they end up spending 44% of the total revenue for the PC market. They are also a price-insensitive group, willing to spend big bucks in the biggest and best products. Again, that means high margins.

So when you have a growing, high-margin part of your customer base, it makes sense to create products that cater to them. That is why you have seen every PC-related company over the past 3 years create gaming-related products (mice, mechanical keyboards, gaming headsets, gaming-oriented monitors, etc). And that is why you will see more products focused at the mobile workstation customer.


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