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are prices of the core i3 2100 cpus expected drop once ivybridge is released?
what about laptops?
tia,
louie
what about laptops?
tia,
louie
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i3 2100's? The ivy bridge based i3's aren't due out till fall, and the mobile version of the i7 isn't due until May/June.
Considering that desktop i7 2600k's have been on sale for $200-250 lately(you won't find them for $200 anymore, microcenter sold out on the first day), the i3 2100 will probably drop. But since the new i3's aren't due out for months when the i7's are out on the 23rd(apparently Intel wants them out a week early now), it's going to be a while. -
Problem is.... nothing really pushes them to release those chips earlier. AMD is lagging behind, dozer was an utter, said fail. So why not hold back, take a breath, make a few dollars off sandies?Comment
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debating on buying a laptop AND building a desktop now or waiting till the end of the month ivy releases.Shop at Amazon via www.shop42a.com - up to 15% of all sales go back to Calguns Foundation!Comment
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The yield issues they were having on the lower power models was never a secret, hence the delay. Because they're going into laptops they need to be sold in batches, not just 10-15 at a time to a retailer. HP, Dell, etc. aren't going to be buying them a dozen at a time. So the end result is a delay until they actually have inventory that they can ship.
BTW, some retailers have indeed been putting i3 2100's on sale recently. I believe the one I saw earlier(which had already expired a couple of days ago) was tigerdirect selling them for $100(a whole $25 off). The retailers want to get rid of inventory and not have a huge backlog of SB once the full line of IB is available. If you're expecting to see something like 50% off the day after the IB equivalent hits retail as if it were candy the day after Easter in a grocery store, that's not going to happen.
If you want to get in on those sales, you're going to have to keep an eye out daily(hardforum.com fatwallet.net etc.) or miss them because they typically sell out fast.
As far as AMD is concerned... wtf are they thinking/doing. I'm no Intel fanboy, and I've bought AMD based systems in the past when they've offered better than Intel. But "bulldozer"... what a piece of garbage. Apparently they have a great integrated graphics package now, and while that's fine for some people it does me no good compared to a discreet video card(maybe in a laptop I could care? but on a desktop I have no interest in integrated graphics on par with outdated AGP cards)Comment
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You're confusing Bulldozer with their APU based (A-Series) chips. In any case Intel has the best processors on the market.
Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. -- James Madison
The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87 (Pearce and Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)Comment
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I wasn't confusing anything. Bulldozer is a garbage CPU, "Llano" is a garbage 2-4 core CPU with integrated graphics. That would be like saying I confused Ivybridge with SB-E and Atom for some strange reason. You'll notice that I used a period and not a comma before my statement about their integrated graphics. That wouldn't even make any sense since "bulldozer" is now "zambezi" under the FX line. I don't even think they use the same socket(they're also not worth paying enough attention to that I would know such a thing off the top of my head).Comment
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SNB-E is awesome btw.
my old PC took 2 hours to transcode 1 hour of video.
New SNB-E based machine does it in 10 minutes.Comment
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