HURRAY! The Intel i7 has arrived, and I'm going to pounce on it like a frisky cat 76% faster than the Q6600 2.66Ghz http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20081117comp_sm.htm#story
The bleeding edge!1K for a cpu that will be outdated in 3 to 6 months.Have at it,I will wait on the price to way fall.
Judging from past releases of Intel, they will most likely introduce a laptop version sometime in the future. @pugmug: I agree with you. $1000 for a processor is not a practical buy, unless you have a lot of money (to burn).
Warn me when it's 16. Then i''l swap my single core laptop and finally calculate the meaning of life. If it's 42, i'm burning it.
yes wait for the prices to fall. the i7 technology is not going to be utilised for awhile and by then the prices will of dropped and better i7. you won't see much gains on games yet. if you into encoding and rendering then fine. i spend the money on the best graphics card if you into gaming but if i remember rightly you already have. treat yourself to a holiday with the saving. you could make a fantastic PC from a overclocked Q6600 with decent graphics or buy that custom spec off the shelf and more than enough with tons of money leftover.
Yeah, the graphics card is usually the bottleneck when it comes to gaming. For smooth gaming, it's better to have a high-end graphics card and a decent processor than a decent graphics card and a high-end processor.
