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    Dell to release quad-core AMD-based Inspiron this summer Discussion

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Matthew Elliott, May 22, 2010.

  1. Matthew Elliott

    Matthew Elliott Notebook Enthusiast

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    Matthew Elliott, May 22, 2010
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    Wonder how much these are going to cost.
     
    abaddon4180, May 22, 2010
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    The Inspirons have typically been the cheapest of Dell's laptops and I suspect they will remain thus. Keep in mind that the AMD quad-cores are on par with Intel's dual-core Core i5 processors in heavily multi-threaded tasks and far inferior to the latter in lightly threaded ones (see this thread). These machines sound decidedly low-end: 15.6" 1366x768 ("720p") display, last-gen graphics (the 550v is a relabeled 4650 with lower clock speeds), 5400RPM hard drives and the processor is no exception. They should be cheap unless Dell decides to play up the "quad-core" marketing despite the fact that these are inferior to Intel's dual-cores in every respect.
     
    Althernai, May 22, 2010
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    .. which can also be said for nVidia's graphics offerings for two generations now. Not DX11, but like the GeForce 330m, the 550v should be a reasonable GPU yet for the budget gamer. Besides, with consoles being the primary platform for games, I don't see games making such a major revolution for at least another two years.
     
    cy007, May 23, 2010
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    Considering that Inspirons typically get crappy GPUs, an HD4650 is not that bad o_O
     
    Melody, May 23, 2010
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    yeh!

    4650 is actually by far the best inspirons have seen so far.
     
    wishmaster.dj, May 24, 2010
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    Give me a new quad-core AMD and a 4650 for around $800-850 and I think Dell has a winner.
     
    abaddon4180, May 24, 2010
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    Also agreed ... I am curious how the quad core chip will do heat wise and battery life wise....
     
    Ahbeyvuhgehduh, May 24, 2010
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    Will this be the first of the AMD Fusion notebooks? What will Fusion provide for mobile users?
     
    ziddy123, May 27, 2010
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    No. The first of the Fusion line will be the Llano processors coming either very late this year or early 2011. They will feature a die shrink of the same lousy Athlon II rebadges as the so-called "Phenom IIs" in these Dells (i.e. don't expect them to compete with Westmere or Sandy Bridge CPUs), but, much more interestingly, DX11-class integrated graphics on the same die as the CPU which are rumored to be quite powerful.
     
    Althernai, May 27, 2010
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