HP Slips Intel's Penryn Processor into Consumer Laptops

HP has quietly rolled out the latest Intel mobile processor family, code named Penryn, into their Pavilion dv2700t, Pavilion dv6700t and Pavilion dv9700t consumer targeted notebooks.

If you visit HPShopping.com now and go to the configuration screen you will get an option for selecting an Intel T9300 2.50GHz Core 2 Duo processor. The T9300 comes from the latest Core 2 Duo line of Penryn processors and offers a larger 6MBL2 cache andabout a 10%performance boost over the equivalent Santa Rosa processor. HP is one of the first major vendors to offer Intel'sPenryn in a mainstream non-gaming notebook, Dell is notably absent from having Penryn available in any of its laptops at the moment.

HP Pavilion dv6700t notebook (view large image)

The cost of the upgrade to the highest-end processor (2.50GHz Penryn) is $225 at the moment on HP's site. So is the price worth it? It depends on your needs, but for most people this is too much power for too high a cost, wait a few weeks and there should be more Penryn options for less cost.

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Any reviews out on the Mobile Penryn Processors such as the T9300 featured here...?

 

And Montevina is coming out later this year, Intel is just churning out products non-stop. Can't wait for Montevina ultraportables.

AMD, whats going on? I feel bad for you.

 

We'll be posting one on Monday for a Toshiba Qosmio.

 

To give a little hint at its performance, compared to the T7300 in the last Qosmio, with only the CPU changing to the T9300 performance jumped 30% in some cases. Battery life during this also managed to stay identical to the last, and I think improving by like 2 minutes.

 

I cant wait for more companies to start rolling out laptops with the new processors. Hopefully the price will come down a bit more...

 

Asus has also started using penryn processor. They're using the latest Nvidia 9xxx GFX.

Here is a typical PC mag review...

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/158592/asus-m50svas030g.html

 

Also available as an option for the HP HDX, too.

 

IMO, the new HP imprint (Verve) looks like poo... they really need to offer options for what "imprint" you want. (The Verve, the previous two and the white one -- forgot what that one's called, but it was on the Best Buy SE models and online for a while.)

 

That would be interesting , hopefully they updated the GPU as well .

Montevina is indeed a promising platform unlike Santa Rosa which didn't make any real jump .

 

I think they did update the gpu

 

Same 8600m gt as before.

 

So what's the ETA for Dell then? And will they launch them in say one market first or across the board?

 

Yep wonder when Dell will make an announcement...

 

So the 9300 is @ 2.5GHZ! If Intel follow the usual naming of their processor line, will we see 9700's and 9800's at 3.0 GHZ + ?

 

Wow, they say the nVidia 9500 can't even run Call of Duty 2 on low @ 1024 x 768? Isn't that a massive step down from the 8400? I can run Half-Life 2 at high settings with 2 x AA at native resolution on my laptop and get 35 FPS.

 

These are the processors coming in May on the Montevina platform:

http://www.tcmagazine.info/comments.php?shownews=17654&catid=2

 

Nah, it's not GT, GS instead. The only thing sucks in the DV9700 series.

 

Will this technology be introduced for desktops first and then laptops, or will this be introduced for laptops upon release in May?