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    post p9700 / t9900 cpu

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ganzonomy, May 23, 2009.

  1. ganzonomy

    ganzonomy Notebook Deity

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    I know there was a brief smatter on wikipedia (world's most unreliable source ;) ) of a T9950 / x9300 / x9500 / qx9500 in the "list of future cpus". It's already more or less confirmed that the P8800 / P9700 / T9900 are realities. Is wikipedia onto something correct here for a change, or are those just things meant to keep our interests up until core i5 comes out for laptops?

    Just was curious (I'm eagerly awaiting the P9700 for a down-watted T9600 that'll give me extra battery life and lots of oomph)

    Jason
     
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  2. ramgen

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    Unless you are running your CPU at 100% rate for several hours don't expect to get a meaningful difference in terms of battery life between a P series and a T series. Their idle power consumption are almost the same...

    Personally speaking, T9900 (3.06GHz, 6MB L2, 1066 MHz FSB) is more than adequate for the mobile platforms. People who do heavyweight stuff (video encoding, simulations etc.) generally prefer at least quad core servers or workstations.



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  3. Kevin

    Kevin Egregious

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    There's already a 2.4Ghz Q9200, which has engineering samples pop up on eBay, but I've heard no news on it actually going retail.

    One is there right now.
     
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  5. Soviet Sunrise

    Soviet Sunrise Notebook Prophet

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    Do we have to go over this again? That Wiki page has been trolled so hard it's not even funny. If you need proof, go over to the Apple forums. We have already seen the T9900 in the silicon, so yes it does exist and Intel may or may not put it into production. The same goes with the QX9200. As for the P9700, it's plausible. However, the T9950, X9300, X9500, QX9500, absolute garbage. And I am willing to bet $10 Paypal'd on that.

    Intel is focusing hard on the new i5's and i7's and it would be unwise for them to hurt their future sales by having putting money into R&D to release yet another Montevina refresh.
     
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  6. ganzonomy

    ganzonomy Notebook Deity

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    ok, ok, sorry.

    (OCD kicked in)

    thread can be closed.
     
    ganzonomy, May 23, 2009
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  7. Kevin

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    P8800, P9700, T9900 will be out within three weeks. I tell you this with certainty.
     
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  8. ganzonomy

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    so there's no t9950, q9300 (non-ex), another 35w q9xxx, p9800, etc. before core i5?

    jason
     
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  9. Soviet Sunrise

    Soviet Sunrise Notebook Prophet

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    There will be none of those. Only the ones Kevin_Jack2.0 mentioned.

    /thread.
     
    Soviet Sunrise, May 27, 2009
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  10. MidnightSun

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    And with those, there will be price cuts on many of the current Montevina processors, most significantly the T9600, and to a lesser extent, the P8700.
     
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  11. laserbullet

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    I wouldn't rule out a few more Montevina CPUs. Arrandale is still a long way away, so we might see a few new offerings in the budget and mainstream segments. A few months from now a P8900 or SU9900 wouldn't shock me.
     
    laserbullet, May 28, 2009
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