Originally Posted by
Dodge DeBoulet
Came within a hair's breadth of ordering early last week, but have been (and will be) away from home for a bit. I want to be around when it arrives.
I ordered mine when the E5470 hit the outlet; I wanted to to see if they refreshed it with the Iris Pro, but getting a better machine for $800 (before upgrades) proved irresistable.
Gets hot, runs the processor at 35W TDP rather than the full 45W, but the combination of 32GB (which makes it better for my work), two generations newer CPU (may not be as fast as a full 45W machine of the current generation, but definitely faster than the 37W Haswell machine I had!), and significantly better compactness and ergonomics, plus a much more travel-friendly 35W adapter (vs. 130W on my prior one) make it a major winner in my book.
I will miss the beautiful HiDPI screen on the M3800. Probably can't justify keeping it around just for Photoshop, though, especially with ~6 months left on the warranty when someone might actually pay me something for it.
Originally Posted by
chx1975
It was not. There never was a single core i5. Mobile i5 is dual core, desktop i5 is quad core. Skylake changed this: normal voltage i5 is quad.
Yup, definitely no single-core Core-i machines of any sort (I can't remember if there were any single core Celerons based onthe same architecture, but I think the last single core Celerons were based on an older architecture.
There were both dual-core and quad-core desktop i5s in the first generation of i5s (2010). Those went away after 2010, although there have been some desktops using laptop dual-core i5s since (most recently, Intel's NUC barebones machines.)