In View of Intel's 2010 Laptop Computers

The latest laptop models have ensnared the interests of the many notebook fanatics as the year 2010 commenced. One of these interesting models is manifested by Intel's 2010 laptop computer innovation.

Introducing Intel's Arrandale Chip: Promising great news on the processors obverse is the potential released of the company's mobile translation of the Westmere line - the dual-core 32nm. Such chip seizes 2 cores, which would be capable of supporting 4 threads. This is made possible by the company with the chip's hyper-threading attribute. This attribute is one of the components of Intel's very own platform known as the Calpella, which supported a five-series chipset.

Prospect brands for the Arrandale would be dubbed as Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 trademarks. Each of these brands may differ in terms of available cache amount and turbo boosting capacity of each chip.

What more to expect from the Arrandale chip? A common user's perception about latest brands or product released is the integration of newly added advanced features and functionality. As for Intel's Arrandale, is the inclusion of a 45nm graphics die, likewise, is a 32nm die for processor. This is somehow contrary to AMD's and other laptop's embedded graphics system, which obviously is much more faster than Intel's.

The Clarksfield Chip:Nevertheless, Intel business continues to find ways to level with or even surpass AMD's laptop innovation. Evident of this effort is the release of the Clarksfield chip. It is so far, the most recent chip that is described as an 8-thread chip, also known as quad-core. This then will fall under the Core i7 brand category, which still belongs to the Cappella OS.

Acer Aspire AS5251 Laptop Review - A Sub $400 Laptop

Acer has recently skyrocketed in the list of the best selling laptops with their Acer Aspire AS5251. At under $400, the price cannot be beat. But does this inexpensive laptop pack enough punch to be considered among the best?

Of course, what first interests us about this AS5251 Acer laptop is the price. We are accustomed to seeing the top rated netbook come in at prices around $400, but not laptops. Laptops, typically, do not have the compromises and concessions that we find on netbooks. These compromises are found in the form of limited memory, smaller hard drives, less-powerful processors, and much smaller laptop screens.

So, let's look at what, if any, compromises that Acer had to make to deliver us this AS5251 laptop under $400 (the current asking price is $379 at many locations).

The first thing that I noticed when I received this laptop was the look and feel of the machine. It's quite similar to the ASUS UL80Vt-A1, which I currently rate as the best price/performance laptop on the market today. The machine is black and comes with a 15.6-inch widescreen laptop monitor that provides solid quality with a built web cam, easily enabling you to video-chat with all of your friends.

Intel's Main Advantage - Speed of Having New Products

Intel China Research Center is working on Model-based Computing to optimize the use of its multi core microprocessor technology. Hint, Microsoft is currently looking closer into virtualization software. It seems that virtualization it's more related to server technology. The virtualization strategy combined with utility computing that uses virtual machines, & the third most important factor; the multi core chip's scalability, performance & power efficiency to reach high levels of work load consolidation in data centers.

Tera-scale computers which are based on 10 to 100s of integrated processor cores perform 3 workloads in Model based computing: "Recognition object or pattern in a database, data mining (source the data base to find identical objects or related patterns that match the target object), & information synthesis (you mine out data, different patterns & objects, put together in a way that user can digest; user can derive useful solutions)" quoted from Vived De; fellow of Intel.

Let us briefly compare side by side, the main offerings from both Intel & AMD quad core microprocessors. You can see that AMD's strategy is taking the competitors weakness as its strength. AMD keeps mentioning about its superior 2mb L3 cache; touted as better than any of its competitors while Intel is in a competition with its own past achievements. Intel is staying away from a head to head "chicken play" with AMD by producing new products much faster than its nearest competitors even though it misses a few innovative hits like a new L3 cache.