why better?

its second intel generation lo..better build and better features... less heat produce.. even i3-sb oso good.. high tempt when play dota.. around 58 degree only. the asus a43e la... when do lite works, when feel the heat airflow.. like feel no heat produce... the tempt around 52 only all sb new intel generation start fix prefix 2..
eg i5-480m ->1st gene
I5-2410M ->2nd gen

^ Not to mention better integrated Intel HD3000 GPU which is more or less on par with Nvidia G310M

eh, HD 3000 more or less equal with g310m? unbelievable..

Yeap, which is why those SB laptops with AMD HD 6370 etc. are not particularly worth it since there's basically not much performance gain at all

o...if people that dont know, as long as gt gc display.. better lo. sometimes i also like that. but when my bro in law tell me, i understand a lil lo.. sb cpu produce less heat, does it mean it use low voltage power since it has small adapter.

Its still full power processor..
There's another section for low voltage processor..

This post has been edited by lee_what2004: May 24 2011, 08:01 PM

Even their low powered CPU are getting closer in speed to full voltage CPU.

Intel Core i7 2820QM & Intel Core i7 2920XM
whats the different? =.=" QM quad core, xm?

XM = "Extreme quad-core mobile processors that feature unlocked Turbo multipliers"
Basically even higher clocks and bigger cache
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge

This post has been edited by [PF] T.J.: May 25 2011, 12:03 AM

the highest in rank for notebook processor(intel) so, its mean like i7 black edition for destop

Black Edition is for AMD ?

ops, its i7 extreme edition

i'll be doing some rendering of videos and images plus some starcraft2 and black ops. Core i5 2nd gen is ok with this?

forget read from where ady, but they mention fusion and sandy bridge will perform well with high performance graphic

for example last time if u buy a high performance graphic card u will need a good processor to bring out the performance of the graphic card but
with sandy bridge and fusion processor you don't need good performance processor to bring out the performance of graphic card

so if want to play high performance game or convert video any processor with a good graphic card will work great ady
ofcauz more cores give better result

Intel latest Ivy bridge will come out next year 22nm size

This post has been edited by junsheng: May 26 2011, 06:11 PM

can.... more than enuf

that will give a competition to AMD LIano

Actually, there is a point of having a HD6370M or similar while using it with an SB proc. Some games, absolutely refuse to run if it sees an Intel GMA in the system.

i don't think games will refuse to run if it sees an intel GMA in the system bcauz nowadays, laptop comes with Intel GMA and (AMD or Nvidia) graphic card when the laptop require high power graphic processing it will use better graphic card but it will switch back to intel GMA when it is idle to conserve battery life, furthermore Intel GMA with a sandy bridge processor will perform as much as the same as the entry level of AMD or Nvidia card
enabling gaming and watch HD movies possible with new netbooks

Nope, some games still refuse to run, even with the Intel HD. I'm not saying that the GMA is a bad thing but sometimes, discrete solutions are better to have even if they don't seem like a better improvement.

like heavy games? or due to its compatibility?