Anyone Else Excited About Intel Core M?
Sep 20, 2014, 1:40 am
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Core M (formerly known as Broadwell) is great for the thin and light toys, but looks like it will just be a modest bump and modest cut in battery life in power for the performance-oriented end of the market (like most of their "tock" processors; this is mostly just a die shrink of Haswell.)
When I can get a 6-core processor in a laptop (at all, or a 6-core desktop where the processor isn't a 120W+ space heater), and 32gb of RAM in a laptop that weighs less than the still-boat-anchor like Lenovo W540, then I'll be impressed.
Skylake, the next "tick" will be bigger at the performance end of the market; DDR4 (and thus 16gb SO-DIMMs, albeit super-pricy at first) is pretty well a given as that's showing up in the Haswell/Broadwell server and workstation chips now.
When I can get a 6-core processor in a laptop (at all, or a 6-core desktop where the processor isn't a 120W+ space heater), and 32gb of RAM in a laptop that weighs less than the still-boat-anchor like Lenovo W540, then I'll be impressed.
Skylake, the next "tick" will be bigger at the performance end of the market; DDR4 (and thus 16gb SO-DIMMs, albeit super-pricy at first) is pretty well a given as that's showing up in the Haswell/Broadwell server and workstation chips now.
Oct 9, 2014, 4:19 pm
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