New Dell Precision M4300... with Conroe!??

Hi, I just wanted to share a thought about some news I read about Dell unveiling a mobile workstation named Precision M4300 in the upcoming weeks.
What do you think about the possibility of the Intel E4300 in a mobile workstation? Does that make sense? It has the same 800Mhz FSB as the new SantaRosa for notebooks... Advantages and disadvantages? I'm not an overclocker so I have no idea...
Dell just introduced three notebooks with the new Santa Rosa platform last week, business notebooks all of them. I've been waiting for the introduction of this new platform to buy a mobile workstation, so I was hoping they would update the M90 just like HP did with their workstation line... but they didn't.
And now they give this M4300 name before the release of the new Precision notebook... would this make sense? What do you think? Would that be good news for those looking for a desktop replacement? I guess so...


http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/05/09/tech-intelsantarosa-20070509.html

 

The e4300 uses an entirely different socket. Quite simply, not possible.

 

The only notebook that uses a desktop Conroe CPU is the Clevo D900C:
http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3566

Dell's Precision line is based on their Latitude line, so expect to see mobile workstations that look like the D630 and D830. The new Latitudes haven't even appeared on Dell's website yet surprisingly.

 

Actually the lattitudes are right here.

http://www.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/latit?~ck=anav&c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04

and there is an on going discussion about the now available D630 right here.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=123176

So the real question is... where are the Inspirons? ;

 

you forgot about the asus c90.

 

Yes, the Asus C90 and C91 will both use Intel's Conroe processors. I doubt Dell would be so radical in thinking, but if any of their notebooks got a desktop processor, it would be the successors to the Precision M90 and XPS M1710, potentially the successor to the M2010 if there is one.

Advantages: POWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER and nothing but raw power.
Disadvantages: Size (seen those cooling turbines on the back of the C90? ), heat, reduces battery life.

 

Thanks for your replies. I guess the name is just a coincidence. Even though, I think that if any conroe processor was to be part of a notebook, this would be a good candidate. At least that was my impression after reading this...

http://stores.tomshardware.com/rating_getprodrev.php/masterid=31958729/id_type=masterid

 

Oh, there definitely would be no connection in terms of naming it something. If the E4300 were to be a processor option, so would the E6320, E6600, etc.