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With the release of Windows 7 coming up pretty quickly here, we’re just like everyone else in hoping that while the Operating System is getting upgraded, the machines running them don’t get left in the dust. Thankfully, that doesn’t seem to be the case, at least not with MSI, as they move forward and confirm the introduction of the Mobile Core i7. It’s not groundbreaking or anything (is there much that is, anymore?), but at least we get something new to look forward in the architecture point of view.
MSI is aiming to ship 15.4- and 17-inch notebooks that revolve around the Core i7 7200M, Core i7 8200M, and the Core i7 920XM CPUs. It’s Intel’s “Calpella” platform that intends to improve upon the company’s current Centrino chipset, and MSI is hoping that the pricing for the upcoming pieces of technology to hit the registers at somewhere between $600 and $900. The upcoming CPUs will offer performance slightly less than the desktop brethren, but will use the same Nehalem architecture.
It’s said that the new Core i7 will improve power management and lessen the temperatures outputted. The aforementioned 15.4- and 17-inch notebooks are set to launch in relation to the release of Windows 7, so if you’re in the market for a new, flashy Operating System and some new hardware, than MSI wants your money. Think it’s enough to earn it?
[via Gizmodo]
One Response to “MSI Mobile Core i7 Confirmed for Windows 7-based Notebooks”
DataCabbitKSW August 27, 2009
So far it seems many OEMs and manufacturers are waiting on Windows 7 or the latest hardware revisions to components to be released. There is a lot of waiting and held breath going on. With new hardware coming to the fore (new GPUs, new CPU revisions, new low power versions of hardware, etc), and software to take advantage of new features (better SSD support in Windows 7, multi-touch capable features, etc), that leaves a lot of system integrators in a tough spot until it the release of Windows 7 on October 22nd. There is Windows 7, then a few other pieces of kit waiting on release and it all come together. I imagine this Christmas shopping season and the following spring is going to be absolutely FILLED with new computers. New laptops and netbooks (ION and Tegra anybody? Plus the new ULV chips CPUs), new portables with multi-touch, or at least basic touchscreen capabilities, and new desktops with new high-end kit to take advantage of all the latest possible features (I’m looking forward to applications with native DirectX Compute usage). Hopefully we will start seeing more machines with touch screens and hopefully multi-touch screens as well too. The ink support in Windows 7 is honestly really really good (see here for info: http://tinyurl.com/cjzxzw ). This is said after only playing with it through a Wacom Intuos 4 tablet on my own machine, and not a native touchscreen (I don’t own a touchscreen). The recognition is very good out of the box, and some of the things like foreign character recognition (I work with Chinese sometimes) and formula input (this is a godsend for helping add these things to documents) are wonderful. This coming season will certainly show off all the new technology coming to folks hands in the consumer sector. I’m also honestly pretty excited to see the new ULV chips and also the new i7 mobile CPUs. This could be a boost for both gaming scale machines and for extended battery life styled machines. However we will have to see the benchmarks on that when they come out.
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