core i7 for laptops?

Does anyone know if core i7 is coming to laptops anytime soon?

I'm looking at getting a new laptop and was hoping to get either core i7 if possible or if not, maybe it will drive prices down on current laptop offerings.

Thoughts? I googled and couldn't come up with much about the topic.

arent there 45nm quad for laptops?
performance and portability doesn't go in pair

What do you plan to use your laptop for? If it isn't for extreme high end desktop replacement I don't think I'd want i7, laptop cooling is just too terrible for such a hot chip.

Well primary use will be taking notes for school (I know I dont need much performance for that) but also in between classes I'll be doing some gaming and such. Figured it wouldn't hurt to have a higher performance laptop for that. I'll probably just settle for a core 2 duo T5800 or maybe P8100 if I can afford it. Put the limitations in games I can play to good use of free time to study I suppose.

What do you mean by that? One of the main points of i7 was to scale down and up to basically all market segments, and as there aren't any multi socket nehalem boards yet, we don't know how they scale up. I think the laptop parts aren't due for a while though.

There are Intel quad core processors for laptops. It's in the Intel® Core™2 Quad mobile processorrange, and the Intel® Core™2 Extreme mobile processorrange.
They go up to 2.53GHz Quad-cores.

And I'm pretty sure I read somewhere (very trusted source) that i7 is coming out for laptops sometime next year probably (2009). And of course a good laptop like that is going to get hot. Get a cooling pad or a USB cooling stand or something like that from somewhere like Belkin. But any laptop will get hot. Put it on your bed or the sofa or something like that, and it will get hot. Make sure it gets plenty of ventilation, especially around the fan.

And the pentium 4 was a run away success with the heat situation in a laptop...

The heat throttled the processor and the battery life was absolute pants...

It wasnt until pentium M came out that things became good...

Then Centrino platform came out things got a whole lot better for battery life and heat etc etc...


I-Core 7 in a laptop will have power and heat issues... There for thinking about it the new laptop chip will not be far off a Q8200 with 95 watts ( It should be even lower ).

Now Core 2 Duo chips for what i understand the fastest laptop chip only has a 35 watt draw so theyre gonna have to go some with a quad laptop chip let alone i-core 7.

Right ok, got it...

Some one has put desktop processors in a laptop with a socket 775 socket..

DESKTOP PROCESSORS ARE NOT LAPTOP PROCESSORS.....

The are prone to head throttle and there for end up being slower than there pc counterparts.. Also PCs dont cost $4000 for a quad core system....

These are why Core 2 Duo laptop chips are so good....

I recon there will be a quad core in the not to distant future which will be 50 watt ish but im sure it wont be based on a i core 7 and it will need to be at least 32 nm in die design

U7500, 1.06 GHz, 2 MB L2, 533 MHz FSB, VT - 10 Watts
U7600, 1.20 GHz, 2 MB L2, 533 MHz FSB, VT - 10 Watts
L7200, 1.33 GHz, 4 MB L2, 667 MHZ FSB, VT - 17 Watts
L7300, 1.40 GHz, 4 MB L2, 800 MHZ FSB, VT, DAT
L7400, 1.50 GHz, 4 MB L2, 667 MHZ FSB, VT - 17 Watts
L7500, 1.50 GHz, 4 MB L2, 800 MHZ FSB, VT, DAT
T5200, 1.66 GHz, 2 MB L2, 533 MHZ FSB
T5300, 1.73 GHz, 2 MB L2, 533 MHZ FSB
T5450, 1.67 GHz, 2 MB L2, 667 MHz FSB - 35 Watts
T5470, 1.60 GHz, 2 MB L2, 800 MHz FSB - 35 Watts
T5500, 1.66 GHz, 2 MB L2, 667 MHZ FSB - 34 Watts
T5600, 1.83 GHz, 2 MB L2, 667 MHZ FSB, VT - 34 Watts
T7100, 1.80 GHz, 2 MB L2, 800 MHZ FSB, VT, DAT
T7200, 2.00 GHz, 4 MB L2, 667 MHZ FSB, VT - 34 Watts
T7250, 2.00 GHz, 2 MB L2, 800 MHz FSB, VT, DAT - 35 Watts
T7300, 2.00 GHz, 4 MB L2, 800 MHZ FSB, VT, DAT
T8100, 2.10 GHz, 3 MB L2, 800 MHz FSB, VT, DAT - 35 Watt
T7400, 2.16 GHz, 4 MB L2, 667 MHZ FSB, VT - 34 Watts
T7500, 2.20 GHz, 4 MB L2, 800 MHz FSB, VT, DAT
T7600, 2.33 GHz, 4 MB L2, 667 MHZ FSB, VT - 34 Watts
T7600G - as T7600 but with free selectable multiplier (for overclocking)
T8300, 2.40 GHz, 3 MB L2, 800 MHz FSB, VT, DAT - 35 Watts
T7700, 2.40 GHz, 4 MB L2, 800 MHz FSB, VT, DAT
T7800, 2.60 GHz, 4 MB L2, 800 MHz FSB, VT, DAT
T9300, 2.50 GHz, 6 MB L2, 800 MHz FSB, VT, DAT - 35 Watts
T9400, 2.50 GHz, 6 MB L2, 1066 MHz FSB, VT, DAT
T9500, 2.60 GHz, 6 MB L2, 800 MHz FSB, VT, DAT - 35 Watts

-> Intel product informations

Wow, i wasnt far off the 50 watt was I.. but to do it with 45nm just means what this die can do..

lets that hope that they bring it to the desktop platform hmpc's would get a boost from this..

With a big enough heat sink it could be passively cooled.

i bet the battery life is pants -

it takes 4 hard disks - geez and its got 3 ram slots -must be a monster

its not bad for the money tho..

I have been eyeballing the Sager NP9280 which you could customize with the i7-975. I have had good notebooks from this company in the past. The only drawback is the price and the weight. They are expensive and typically heavy. They are indeed desktop replacements and my experience is that they are as fast and many times faster than an equally equiped desktop. The configuration I am building is a bit over $4K (Core i7-975, 6GB Triple Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz, 350G x3 RAID-0). I have used Sager notebooks for CAD/CAM/CAE applications. (very processor intensive as well as hard drive access intensive, therefore the various RAID configurations that are available are very much desired feature. As for the video, it comes standard with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M Graphics with 1GB DDR3 Video Memory which is not the hottest out there but it far exceeds my requirements. The base configuration is about $2,300 and is still quite a screamer with the i7-920 and 3Gig of ram and 250GB HDD. (I am in San Diego, so I can actually drive to the factory to pick up my unit)
I hope this helps.

Actually, the increased TDP won't be as obvious as you might think. They do have an increased TDP compared to current offerings, but the chipset will have significantly less draw, which will at least partially offset the additional power used by the processor.

I think think this link would help out also.
http://www.falcon-nw.com/
Look thought this website, they have a i7 laptop. Best out there.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/n [...] 870_x2_gpu

but it could come close