Intel Launching 'Merom' Notebook Processor

Hans Pecheston writes "Merom, Intel's notebook processor, will be joining in the festivities at their upcoming launch event. This chip will continue to use the Core 2 Duo brand and should display additional improvements in performance and power consumption over the current chips. Intel has already begun to ship Merom processors to its PC customers and systems with Merom should begin to appear around the end of August."

Re:Meromonics

[digitaldc]

Every time I hear "Celeron" I think celery, thats about as boring as it can get!

That's exactly what everyone I know calls them.
Even adding the ubiquitous 'X' to form 'XCeleron' would have been better ;)

What about retail Merom CPU?

[nxtw]

My laptop came with a Core Duo (Yonah) T2300. The CPU is a little weak at times, so I'd like to upgrade to Merom when available. (The requisite BIOS update has been available for a few months now.) Does anyone know when I'll be able to buy one from a reseller such as Newegg?

Re:And in the first week of August...

[Moby Cock]

Really? Do you have a reference? I heard that the Yonahs were here to stay as the 'low end' or 'consumer' option.

Waiting for the dust to settle

[tomstdenis]

I do want to try out this "AMD killer" architecture but I'll wait for the dust to settle. Probably wait for Dec/Jan before getting a kit to use in my benchmarks.

That and the name sucks. At least when you say T6600 or whatever you can get a sense of what it is [provided you know the model numbering which also changes too much]. Core 2 Duo ... how's that different from Core Duo?

Also it's getting harder and harder to find official optimization guides/pipeline descriptions out of Intel. Or maybe I'm not looking in the right places. What do they have to hide?

Tom

Re:I wonder..

[metushelach]

Merom was developed in the R&D center of Intel in Haifa, Israel. Hizbollah is shooting rockets from Lebanon into all of northern Israel, but paying special attention to Haifa. So I was wondering, if AMD was the one who was paying Hizbollah, to attack the biggest R&D center Intel has outside the US. (and there goes my attempt to making this sound funny)

Re:Why this is Apple-relevant

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know about OS X and Cell - although it does sound insanely cool.

There have been multiple interviews with IBM about their decision to drop Apple as a customer. The main one was with the main PPC exec responsible for dealing with Apple. Although IBM appears to have taken the high road and let Jobs spin things in public. I don't think IBM really cares about the less than 4 percent of their chip business that Apple represented.

There was another informal interview with one of the mid-level IBM PPC guy who gave a laundry list of stupid things Apple did to IBM with chip orders. It sounded like it was a nightmare to work with Apple and IBM had a 'good riddance' attitude after the decision was made a couple years ago to drop them.

There were article earlier this year that talked about Apple going to PASemi after IBM dropped them looking to bail Apple out, but I guess PA wasn't going to be ready in time. Although looking back over the past year and the Intel mess and Apple begging them to move their chips plans forward, PA would have been much better move for Apple.

Power Consumption

[aersixb9]

Since power consumption is one of the biggest turn-offs for me on a laptop, specifically that most last 4 hours at full speed, and when I'm off grid it's usually for more than 24 or 48 hours, much too long even for a big bag of kind of expensive batteries, is there a power saving solution that's better than bringing a bunch of batteries for a laptop, a hi-density battery or an extremely low power usage laptop? One solution is a 12vdc - 120vac inverter on an engine...does anyone have a little gas, propane, or other powered engine that could power a laptop, and is small enough to carry around, either inside the laptop or in a bag with one? Or are laptops mostly for desktop/travel on-grid use, and plugged in, in which case it would make sense to eliminate the power efficiency of laptops and simply use them as portable desktops...