News Bits: Intel Montevina Processor Names, Gateway P-15831FX Reviewed, Sager NP5793 Introduced

Intel to change processor naming for Montevina platform

Intel will change its naming scheme for mobile CPUs arriving with the Montevina notebook platform later this year. Montevina is the replacement for the current Santa Rosa platform. In addition to the T series processors, a P series and an S series will be added which will have lower TDP ratings. The T series will have a TDP rating of 30-39W, while the P will have a lesser TDP of 20-29W. The S series will be comprised of three segments: the SP, SL, and SU, which have TDPs of 20-29W, 12-19W, and less than or equal to 11.9W respectively. They will have a smaller package size to fit in smaller designs.
In Q3 2008, Intel is planning to launch a quad-core notebook processor.

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Gateway P-16831FX with 8800M-GTS impressions posted

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Forum member bwhxeon managed to snag a Gateway P-16831FX gaming notebook earlier than the laptop's planned release date. It features a 17" widescreen display, Core 2 Duo processor, and a powerful Nvidia GeForce 8800M-GTS graphics card. The notebook retails for a relatively low $1,349.99 at Best Buy. Please see the full impressions thread in the forum for more benchmarks and pictures.

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OLPC spin-out company to create $75 laptop

A new ventureformed by former CTO of OLPC, Mary Lou Jepsen, plans to create a $75 laptop. Jepsen left OLPC to commercialize technologies she developed with OLPC. She is quoted as saying, "Spinning out from OLPC enables the development of a new machine, beyond the XO [laptop], while leveraging a larger market for new technologies." The company will work with OLPC and will be for-profit.

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Sager NP5793 introduced, supports 8800M-GTX and Penryn Extreme

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Sager has refreshed their NP5792 17-inch gaming notebook with the NP5793, featuring a refreshed outer body and beefed up cooling system to handle the Nvidia GeForce 8800M-GTX and the Intel Core 2 Extreme processor. The bottom of the case and the heatsink have been revised to support the mobile Extreme processors, which allow overclocking. The Intel Core 2 Extreme X9000, which runs at 2.8GHz stock, can be overclocked to 3.0GHz and 3.2GHz in the BIOS.
Sager will start accepting pre-orders for systems with the X9000 CPU once an ETA is provided by Intel distributors. In other news, Sager has the new Intel Penryn Core 2 Duo T8100/ T8300/ T9300/ T9500 processors in stock and will start shipping notebooks with them to customers on Monday, Jan 14. Please see the full thread in the forums for more information.

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NotebookReview.com review of Sager NP5791
Special thanks to Justin for submitting this information

OLPC says Intel is welcome to come back

The One Laptop Per Child foundation said it would welcome Intel back. Intel left the OLPC on Jan. 3 after the companies were not able to settle "philosophical differences". Nicholas Negroponte, founder of OLPC, said in a statement "It was very unfortunate what happened with Intel, and I hope there's a way of rebuilding it in the future because there's no interest in OLPC pushing Intel out. It just is not in our interest. Our goal is to get this to as many children as possible." Intel manager Agnes Kwan said Intel would be willing to talk with OLPC, but noted that the two firms broke up because of differences that have not yet been resolved.

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I'm not sure what happened Chaz, but "Justin" was hyperlinked to something odd. I removed the link because it was to a page that just had the works "Hi!" on it.

If you meant to put it there sorry, but I thought I'd change it then ask you for safety's sake!

 

I am excited for Montevina. It will be an awesome last Core 2 Duo platform. Looks like there will be a lot of processor choices too.

 

Yes Greg, and also, if you click on "Discuss", it takes you to a thread about the XPS 420...

 

Intel is going to launch quad core notebooks !!!
OMG, I can't wait :cry:

 

there already are notebooks with quad core desktop processors... sure these will be mobile versions, but it's nothing spectacular

 

NOTHING SPECTACULAR?!?!?!? ARE U KIDDING????

Quad Core in a notebook is a big step towards the truly ideal "Gaming Notebook", which many people scorn upon now...

 

These are being worked on, no worries. Thanks for catching the errors.

 

Wow wow wow! A gaming-grade laptop at a price that doesn't break the bank. I WANT that Gateway laptop!

Now if only the resolution wasn't so terrible. Man, it's going to be hard to resist upgrading to that.

 

We're talking about a mobile quad core CPU my friend. There is nothing spectacular about the quad core desktop CPU in a 12 pounds brick.

 

Seriously, as yet, I don't like Gateway products but after reading Gateway P-16831fx review, makes this notebook is the icing on the cake

 

Mobile quad-core will be great. But it doesn't necessarily mean that you are going to get 4 times the power of single-core or twice the power of a duo-core. But there other great benefits and its a step in the right direction. Now are there quad-core/duo-core GPU's???

 

True, but games still need to come out to use all those cores. I honestly think that we'll be looking at 9800m GPUS in laptops before quad-core gaming becomes the norm.

Not that quad-core is bad, far from it! Just the performance gains are not always worth the cost. It's a lot like SLI. It's really good in apps that use it, otherwise it's just wasted performance.

 

Agreed, I can only think of one game that can use quad core effectively so far (Supreme Commander), but by the time this mobile Quad is released there might well be a good few more. By then single core will have been phased out I think.

As for Intel not agreeing with OLPC... well big surprise. They're all about profit, OLPC is all abut helping people.

As for the gateway well it's just a shame it isn't sold here!

 

I think everyone of Gateways recent products are a copy of someone elses only sold cheaper.

 

That is not necessarily a bad thing though.

 

New Montevina's! This platform will be awesome!

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