[FilluX]

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According to Intel marketing director Karen Regis, 37 percent of the installed PC base is over three years old, and 38 percent of that base is in the desktop category. Regis says this keeps a lot of PC users in the dark regarding high-quality media, networking, and security. Plus, many PC users who would like to go mobile with their hardware are currently tethered to a desk. In order to spur a jump in laptop sales, Intel plans on rolling out Montevina Plus, an update to the current Centrino 2 (Montevina) platform. The update will see Penryn processors pushed beyond the 3.0GHz mark, and have a new found emphasis on High Definition content. Many consumers may see the new operating frequency numbers and jump on the opportunity to buy a new and more powerful laptop. With Intel claiming that Montevina Plus has a new energized focus on HD, one has to wonder where that graphics muscle is going to come from. Centrino 2 is all about working with top end graphics cards (my Centrino 2 notebook has a 9800GTS, for example), so will this new HD campaign focus on the lower end of Montevina Plus? If that's the case, perhaps we will see Nvidia's 9400M come into play, or even a new mobile IGP from Intel. While some consumers crave power with no respect to size, others want power in a sleek and small profile package. In order to accommodate highly mobile power users, Intel is also bringing prices down on its Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) processors. Such hardware, found now in laptops like the MacBook Air and other expensive ultra-lightweight notebooks, typically has a price tag of $1,500 or more. Intel wants to bring its ULV processors to lightweight mobile solutions in the more approachable $599-$1,000 range. Regis emphasized that these new notebooks will be full-scale PCs and not netbooks, with most screens being 13.3-inches+. Hopefully, the emphasis on HD will trickle down from the Centrino 2 laptops to these new ULV offerings. Expect Montevina Plus to be rolled in the second quarter of 2009, with the price reduction of ULV chips also coming sometime this year.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Int...Plus,7218.html

 

[mtbhrd]

Whats wrong with leaving people alone with the stuff they already have and are probably happy with? Oh, right, you designed it to be crap in 3 years.

 

[lolhax]

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Originally Posted by mtbhrd Whats wrong with leaving people alone with the stuff they already have and are probably happy with? Oh, right, you designed it to be crap in 3 years.

3 years is a pretty long time these days.

 

[gamer11200]

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According to Intel marketing director Karen Regis, 37 percent of the installed PC base is over three years old, and 38 percent of that base is in the desktop category. Regis says this keeps a lot of PC users in the dark regarding high-quality media, networking, and security

my P4 is 4 and a half years old and doesn't have an issue playing High Definition video, sharing files over the network and running Avast Antivirus.

 

[chrisparkermedia]

things are not really designed to fail in 3 years...
tech moves along so quickly that 3 years from now.. my oc'd q6600 and 8Gb of ddr2 1066 ram is slow to process the complex emerging new techs
when i7 already whoops my butt.... and soon we will have 6 core 32nm processors kicking i7 butt

 

[darksideleader]

2nd year with my dual-core... 2 more to go?

 

[xlastshotx]

I would rather have them coming out with new stuff fast then slow, because when the new stuff comes out the old stuff gets cheaper

 

[ilhe4e12345]

sad to think about the way technology upgrades so fast. I have a brand new phenom x4 920, 4 gigs ram, and a 4780 Toxic graphics card and i just cant beleive that my system is going to basically be garbage in like 2 years. sad

 

[BikePilot]

I'm all for more efficient processors. Really makes a huge difference in a laptop. Allows them to be lighter, cooler, longer battery life etc. My X61S has some sort of low voltage processor - it runs at something like .8v when not under load.

 

[jinja_ninja]

Even some of my components are 2 years old and they are still working way beyond my expectations.

 

[Kirmie]

Hmmm, there target consumer makes up less than 15% of the total PC base. Seems like the first part is kind of irrelevant, but yay cheap stuff!