http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBCglId1OdE
"Incredibly realistic gaming
Dive into a deeply immersive gaming experience with a 31% improvement in artificial intelligence for game characters and realistic physics for game worlds." - quoted from Intel

I reckon we should go for Core i7 to be future proof and better multitasking

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=433033

no, i won't trust Intel for that...

the key is still optimization... and i doubt game developers really like HTT... juz look at how it failed in Pentium 4...

really it is weird.. Every thread I found in Notebookreview..

Asus G51J i7, SXPS 16 i7, and 8940G i7, all of them praising Corei7 lol..

I guess its the different applications of the i7 processor they use and we use?

Therefore, what are your recommendation, guys?

I am planning to purchase laptop - Dell Studio 15 during the PIKOM FAIR Online

After I gone through all the post of this topic, I am still not sure whether to go for C2D or i7?

The Laptop Usage will be mainly internet, word processing, App Development, and lastly - definitely some great games.

if u can afford Studio 15 with i7, i suggest Studio XPS 16 with Core 2 Duo or Acer 5935G with GT 240M instead...

for games, priority always go to GPU...

true true.. since now maybe in 2 years to come even the i7 will not be fully utilised.. Go for Higher Clocked Core 2 Duo

but seems graphic user prefer i7 n it work really well on editing program ! higher clocked c2d still costly(i mean laptop)

Wait for core i5 better.. At least the clocks are 2.26/2.4/2.66GHz dual-core. Replacements of the Core 2 Duo With HTT and Turbo Boost

well, i dun think Core i5 and Core i7 dual will be cheap either...

well I reckon core i7 920 is overkill
but core i7 720 is priced for value.

what value?
for gaming?

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Added on December 5, 2009, 9:18 pmthats mean i5 will have 2 thread?
just like C2D?

This post has been edited by Mr.Docter: Dec 5 2009, 09:18 PM

value would be Core i3...

dun forget, the way that Intel markets the CPU now is:

hardcore - Core i7
Performance - Core i5
Mainstream - Core i3
Value - Pentium

with the lack of Pentium in the line up, i reckon Core 2 will make up for the Value market for the time being...

how bout i7 820QM ?

1 core - 3.0GHz
2 cores -
4 cores -

just a bit improvement from 720 which is almost no difference in term of real usage.

but for sure a slight increment when benchmarking.

well, the main difference on the 820QM would be the larger cache...

what the advantage with large cache? n thank solving my question so far

not significant unless u re doing works that involve lots of transfer of small files...

but heck 8MB is juz total overkill for normal users...

regarding to the bolded statement.

i still do not understand.
isn't it Phenom2 X4 965 is Quad core, and i5 750 is Dual core?
if yes, then why 965 still lose to 15 750?

i5 700 series is a quad with no HTT...

anyway, it's no secret that high end multi GPU system would cause the CPU to be bottlenecked...

astria what the next mobile Core CPU coming ?