Wednesday, January 04, 2006 1:16:47 PM
Re: just like you don't see many DC laptops now, I think you won't see many for quite some time. I expect DC to not be very sought after in the notebook segment.
I couldn't disagree more. With Intel enforcing their branding with Centrino Duo and Core Duo, even the most ignorant consumers will see something appealing with dual core. And besides, it adds real benefit to multitasking and multithreaded applications, more so than the empty promise of 64-bit performance or a larger memory address range. Dual core will give 80+% more performance to media encoding, which is more common on laptops these days as people take their mobile PCs with them on vacation to save their home movies and create personal videos. It also accelerates image editing, which is becoming more common in OEM software bundles. People are starting to use their laptops for more performance intensive apps, they burn CDs, create DVDs, and Intel can easily communicate this in their marketing. And with >230 design wins for Yonah according to Intel, almost every single OEM will offer these dual core based laptops for the same price as existing laptops. Then there will be single core Turion looking like a me-too, but lacking the magic of dual cores. AMD will try to market 64-bits, but finding apps that currently take advantage of this will be a challenge for them and weaken their marketing effort.
I couldn't disagree more. With Intel enforcing their branding with Centrino Duo and Core Duo, even the most ignorant consumers will see something appealing with dual core. And besides, it adds real benefit to multitasking and multithreaded applications, more so than the empty promise of 64-bit performance or a larger memory address range. Dual core will give 80+% more performance to media encoding, which is more common on laptops these days as people take their mobile PCs with them on vacation to save their home movies and create personal videos. It also accelerates image editing, which is becoming more common in OEM software bundles. People are starting to use their laptops for more performance intensive apps, they burn CDs, create DVDs, and Intel can easily communicate this in their marketing. And with >230 design wins for Yonah according to Intel, almost every single OEM will offer these dual core based laptops for the same price as existing laptops. Then there will be single core Turion looking like a me-too, but lacking the magic of dual cores. AMD will try to market 64-bits, but finding apps that currently take advantage of this will be a challenge for them and weaken their marketing effort.
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