Most popular processor for a laptop?

What is the most popular processor for a laptop?
How about video card??

I am trying to do some market research to find out which laptops sell best. I know a lot of college students tend to stay away from the 17.3" screens, but I find most laptops with i7's come with 17.3" screens and college students are a huge part of the market.

It also seems like Intel is much more popular then AMD when it comes to laptops. I am more of a desktop user myself and with the constant upgrades I am partial to AMD.

I also did a Google search for the best selling laptops of 2010 and it seems like every list has 10 different models.

 

Intel and Nvidia are the market leaders for processors and video cards respectively. I don't know why that matters though. WalMart is the nation's largest retailer. Doesn't mean the quality of their goods is better than everywhere else.

 

Well, wouldn't Intel's be the most prevalent video card? Big majority of laptops are using Intel IGP of one flavor or another.

Or maybe I read the original post wrong.

 

Yeah, their quality might not be better, but with the name Wal-Mart the products they carry do sell better. Wal Mart does not need to put as much attention as a small business in which laptops they stock.

I am looking to sell new/refurbish laptops on eBay and a stand alone website. So Knowing which laptops sell the best will be very useful.

No, I agree Forge. I think the processor is the biggest factor since a laptop with i7 is not going to have integrated graphics, but just because someone has money to buy a laptop with an Intel Core i7 does not mean they will.

The basic question is which is more popular processor for a laptop i3, i5 or i7? I did not find many best selling lists that named laptops with AMD processors in the top 5-10.

 

Processor bestseller in college students = whatever the current-gen macbooks / macbook pros use.
Ditto with GPUs.

lol. God's honest truth.

 

I hear you Jerg. I am a college student myself at Purdue, majoring in Computer and Electrical Engineering. I am a Junior now and Apple laptops without a doubt are the most wanted. I know other students willing to pay about 1000$ for a Mac book Pro with a dual core processor. You can get an Asus with an i7 for 800$ but some people dont care they just want the Macbook Pro.

The problem is that you need to be an authorized Apple reseller to sell Apple products. Even if I could find a supplier who carried Apple laptops they would be at or slightly below retail.

P.S. Jerg your schools connection is insane. Purdue ONLY gets 58.52 mb/s download.

 

Err...it really depends on your price point, but overall it is Intel. They just have so much market share.

For graphics, I'm going to have to say Intel again, integrated graphics is still sold with most laptops.

 

I think Intel is the clear choice, but i3, i5 or i7 for a laptop? Which one sells best? I work at Purdue CTIS department repair/upgrade the schools computers. Most of the guys I work with think i7 laptops are over powered and laugh at spending 1000$ + on one. Agree? or Disagree? I dont see the majority of the laptop market fully utilizing an i7. Desktop i7 will always be faster and cooler than laptops with i7's and (Name Brand) laptops with i7's cost more (Usually).

Would you pay 1400$ for
Dell Alienware M15X Core i7-720QM 1.6GHz
320GB Hard Drive
4GB Ram
15.6" HD (1920x1080)
DVD-RW
W7 Pro
NVIDIA® GT 240M 512MB


OR
680$ for
Toshiba Satellite L640-02V Core™ i3-370M 2.4GHz
500GB
4096MB
14" Trubrite™ WXGA
W7HP
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834214150CVF 760.00$ newegg price

Both Brand New

 

I'd go for the M15X, but mostly because of the resolution and graphics card. I'm probably a "power" user, though.

 

And the difference between power in laptop vs desktop processors is not what it used to be. The new Sandy Bridge mobile processors are very powerful, more so than some desktop processors. I saw a comparison where the i7-2820 was pitted against a bunch of other processors, one of which was the i7-920 desktop processor. The mobile Sandy Bridge processor smoked the desktop i7 in most of the tests. I'm just saying that the difference between desktop and mobile processors isn't what it used to be. Of course, you will pay much more for a notebook, but still...

 

After having my first taste of a "powerful" laptop, my previous two being a netbook and a single-core Turion from 2005, I can say with a reasonable degree of certainty that I probably won't be going back to anything with less than 4 cores and dedicated graphics again. It might be overkill for a lot of things, especially since I'm just posting on NBR with it at the moment, but there's something to be said about the freedom provided by being able to literally pick up my games and play them anywhere. Even if "anywhere" means sitting on the couch for a couple hours playing ArmA 2 waiting for the UPS man to get here because I can't hear the doorbell in my room.

 

google ftw.
Best-Selling Laptop Models (As of Jan 2010)
1. Apple MacBook Pro MB990LL/A 13.3-inch Laptop
2. Asus UL30A-X5 13.3-inch Laptop
3. HP Pavilion DV6-2150US 15.6-inch Laptop
4. Apple MacBook MC207LL/A 13.3-inch
5. Toshiba Satellite L505-S5993 15.6-inch Laptop
6. Toshiba Satellite T135-S1310 13.3-inch Laptop

 

That would be one list. The problem is, most other lists list different models.

 

Is there a "most popular" laptop at all?
There is a huge variety of products targeting many different customer groups and usage scenarios.

• gaming
• office usage
• mobility
• outdoor usage
• professional users
• mobile workstations

and many more. Like with cars.

What sells best (in numbers of sold units) that is the "middle class" - simply check what your local Best Buy (or whoever) has. Competition is tough in this market and margins low.
Perhaps it is better to find a niche with products that can not be easily found at the local supermarket.
If you are targetting students, perhaps small (13") business class laptops (for example) isn't a bad idea to focus on.

Michael

 

Which size category of laptop? The 17" machines typically come with the cheapest Core i7s (currently the 2630QM, previously the 720QM). Below that, at about 14-16", the Core i5s are popular. Right now, it's something like the 480M, but this will change in three weeks or so once the rest of Sandy Bridge is introduced. At about 13", you start getting various low voltage alternatives (although the standard ones remain popular). It's virtually impossible to come up with the single most popular one and it wouldn't matter much anyway.

Intel's integrated graphics by a large margin.

College students typically need to move the laptop around. A 17" machine just isn't practical for that -- even if the student is big and strong, the thing is just too clumsy. Try putting even a 15-incher on one of those chair-desks in a college lecture hall and you'll see what I mean.

AMD has nothing even remotely competitive in the mainstream laptop sector; they haven't had anything for years. Their performance is pitiful: the current AMD quad-cores are worse than Intel dual-cores -- and that's in heavily threaded tasks, in lightly threaded ones they lose by a factor of 2. That wouldn't be so bad if they were at least efficient (most people don't need that much performance), but their battery life is worse than Intel's. Also, in the past they ran extremely hot -- this is fixed in the current generation, but the reputation remains. As a result of all this, AMD is selling them at extremely cheap prices, but even so few people are interested.

That said, a few weeks ago AMD came out with it's new Brazos platform and that's a completely different story. It's targeted at netbooks and the cheaper Pentium/Celeron laptops and it's very competitive in that sector. AMD should gain some market share soon.

 

Yeah, "most popular" is a pretty general term. I think that the "middle class" range of laptops probably sell most units. I am planning on listing some laptops around campus so college students will be my target market. Intel processors preferably Quad core with 15.6" screens will probably sell the best. Thanks for the info guys

 

ROFL @ HP, found at Which Is Best Selling Laptops In 2010?

 

None of those laptops are still in production, some of them are over 5 years old. That's like saying the worst selling car of 2010 is the Ford Model T.

 

Considering how widespread it is in cheap laptops, I'd bet the old Intel T4500 is still among the most sold CPU today...