Laptop Conroe variants

[pengwinzz]

Hi, quick question – are there laptop variants of conroe available?

I was thinking about buying a laptop with the following cpu’s, are any of them of the Conroe variety? Or should I wait untill next month when dell start selling quad core turions?

Intel® Centrino® Duo Mobile Technology with Intel® CoreT 2 Duo processor T7200 (2.00 GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 667 MHz FSB)
Intel® Centrino® Duo Mobile Technology with Intel® CoreT Duo Processor T2300E (1.66 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache, 667 MHz FSB)

 

[Boogle]

Do you have any applications that you run on your laptop (or would run) that would make use of two processors regularly, let alone 4?

This is a laptop, so you need the greatest performance/watt possible given the applications you run. That will most likely finger the Merom since its faster in predominantly single-threaded apps, which means it can clock down into power saving mode more quickly.

Unless of course you want more of a desktop replacement, in which case get whichever is the fastest (I would hazard that would still be Merom ).

The 2Ghz CPU you mentioned is Merom (mobile Conroe, SSE3, 64bit), the 1.66Ghz is Yonah (SSE2, 32bit).

 

[pengwinzz]

Thanks for the reply

Do you have any applications that you run on your laptop (or would run) that would make use of two processors regularly, let alone 4?

I'll be using the laptop for 3d work, using max + maya, the latest versions of which are 64bit and i presume they are multithreaded apps (or atleast they will be for rendering)