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VIRTUALISATION Intel Core i7 processors here on November 12
VIRTUALISATION Intel Core i7 processors here on November 12 | Intel Core i7 processors here on November 12 |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Tuesday, 04 November 2008 | |
  
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The three 45nm processors are the 920 at 2.66Ghz, the 940 at 2.93Ghz and the 965 at 3.2Ghz, and they are expensive, with the cheapest prices reported by ZDNet being AUD $600 for the 920, $1100 for the 940 and a whopping $2500 for the 965 Extreme Edition. ZDNet has more details. Clearly, you’ll have a real need for speed, and a really big bank balance if buying one of these processors is in your plans for 2008, with prices sure to fall into 2009, and new models to follow. For many, existing Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad processors will remain the more affordable choice, while Intel’s Atom processors take the netbook market by storm. Gamers wanting every extra ounce of power, the highest resolutions and the highest frame rates will want to make sure that an i7 is matched up with their graphics card of choice, but for everyday computing, an i7 will not be necessary. Indeed, with Windows 7 being designed to work on existing computers quite happily, reversing the trend of Windows Vista requiring more powerful hardware than Windows XP. And with the Windows 7 pre-beta running happily on Intel Atom-powered netbook computers, the i7 processor may well dovetail nicely with Windows 7 from a marketing perspective but it definitely needs to become cheaper for true mass adoption. There are plenty of i7 reviews online already, but for a good local perspective, take a look at APCMag’s 8 page review for more details. Personally I’m looking forward to a mobile version of the i7 processor, delivering even more power to today’s notebooks and further differentiating them from netbooks, but we’ll have to wait until sometime in 2009 for that to happen. 2009 will be the year of sevens… the Intel i7 and Windows 7. A tidal wave of sevens is coming! |
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