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Intel Adds Cheap(er) Quad-Core Mobile Processor to Lineup

Posted 12/30/08 at 10:34:14 AM  by Paul Lilly

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Unlike in the desktop market where quad-core computing has become commonplace, the four-core revolution has yet to make any real headway into the mobile sector. That might change soon as Intel has launched an affordable quad-core mobile chip.

The new Q9000 processor comes listed at $348, which is far easier to swallow than the $1,038 asking price for the existing mobile quad-core QX9300, or $851 for the Q9100. To make the lower price point possible, Intel cut the amount of cache in half from 12MB (QX9300 and Q9100) to 6MB. The Q9000 races along at 2.0GHz.

Acer has already jumped on board as one of the first OEMs to announce a Q9000-based laptop, the Aspire 8930G-7665, priced at $1,800. In addition to utilizing Intel's new quad-core chip, the Aspire also comes with an 18.4-inch WUXGA screen and GeForce 9700M GT GPU.

In other mobile chip news, Intel announced a handful of new dual-core mobile processors. These include the T9800 (2.93GHz, $530), P9600 (2.66GHz, $348), T9550 (2.66GHz, $316), and the P8700 (2.53GHz, $241).

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avatarThis is stupid. How does

Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 11:00am

This is stupid. How does Intel get anyone to justify spending $500dollars more to get the full 12mb now?I am not willing to pay $500bucks more than I have to just to have 6more mb's of cache. That's stupid and Intel needs to rethink it's pricing scheme because it's crazy expensive considering the Core processors have a history of being some of the cheapest processors Intel has ever brought to market. It used to be back in the day if you wanted to swing with an Intel proc it cost $600 or more and now the Core processors that Intel used to destroy AMD were released at the most competitively priced Intel has every done since the P4C3ghz chip.

I think Intel realized that it was better to sell alot of very fast cpu's for an affordable price than to sell very few of them at really high prices. Hopefully Intel isn't going back to their old ways of charging alot because they could.  

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avatartoo beaucoup

Submitted by Syntax on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 10:36am

18.4" is quite large, it's not proper to call it a laptop, more of a mobile desktop. That purchase doesn't make sense when you can get a faster quadcore, (probaly) more RAM, a 4870x2, and a much bigger monitor for the same pricepoint. If I were dropping $1800 on a lappy, I'd want it to be 15" inches, otherwise I know i'd just always leave it at home.

 

Even for a LAN party I'd bring an extra KB and Mouse, so it's taking up even more space for no reason. 

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