
It isn’t hard to imagine using a notebook for converting your favorite CDs to iTunes-compatible .aac files. The Core i5-540M benefits from Turbo Boost technology in this single-threaded title, shaving 10 seconds off of the task.

Solid utilization of Hyper-Threading and an on-package memory controller gives the Mobile Core i5 a notable lead versus Intel's Core 2 Duo architecture in MainConcept. When you consider the fairly similar platform power consumption figures between these two machines, such a performance advantage is fairly incredible.

The same optimizations that make MainConcept a quicker application to run on Arrandale-based systems also affect the freely-available HandBrake title. Here, we see our The Last Samurai transcode drop from 20 minutes to roughly 13 minutes by virtue of the architectural changes made to Intel's latest-generation mobile platform.

Hyper-Threading helps accelerate our DivX transcode, but a less aggressive form of Turbo Boost technology doesn't really help the speed of our unoptimized Xvid batch job.
- Introduction
- The Arrandale Lineup: Something For (Almost) Everyone
- On-Package Graphics: Arrandale Versus Clarkdale
- Mobile Chipsets, Refreshed
- Asus' K42F Calpella-Based Notebook
- Test Setups And Software
- Benchmark Results: Synthetics
- Benchmark Results: Gaming And 3DMark Vantage
- Benchmark Results: Media/Transcoding Apps
- Benchmark Results: Productivity
- Power Consumption
- MobileMark 2007
- Conclusion
Performance is good but I'm hoping for a viable update to the CULV offerings of yesterday.
Keep it up intel. I do hope that AMD will release some new chips that will be able to compete with intel offerings.
That chops them completely out of the mobile graphics market for the masses ... Intel will pay the RIGHT OEM's some "adjustment" just to make sure their "Strategy" is right to ensure AMD's mobile market is thin and restricted to the backwaters of Bejjing.
Have a look at Page 8, where HD Graphics is compared to the previous-generation GMA in Vantage and WoW. You're not going to get much else out of this, to be honest...
Also the integrated graphics can barely match the 9400m that is 1-2 years old.
The battery life is the same or worse...
What is so great about this chip?
Personally I'm not at all impressed and find it a step side ways or even backwards.
The integrated graphics do suck, but at least now we have a choice in some laptops where we can switch from the integrated to dedicated, saving battery life when needed and boosting performance where needed. It adds flexibility basically, I'm sure Intel was aiming more for that rather than performance in 3D games.
What I really want to see is the ULV versions of this chip. I'm hoping whenever they start coming out, it'll push down the prices of older Ultra-Portable laptops around the 12-14" sizes. Certain ones with the C2D SU7300 and 4GB of RAM can be found for around $550 today. If these prices go down far enough, netbookks will be obsolete in my mind.
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