Posts by mav99

oki did some searches and this is what i gather about the crestline chipset and merom. while merom should be 667 fsb and due in q3, the crestline chipset should use ddr2-800 and is due at the end of the year. crestline will also have...

Quote: Originally Posted by drizek it has twice the l2 cache and it is 64bit. it will be clocked higher and is more efficiently designed which will mean battery life will be increased A LOT. those are...

does anyone have a link or info about the mrom chipset that is supposed to make merom more powerful? all i can remember is that that chipset is supposed to be even lower power and have improvments for merom's successor and also have...

aren't more people excited about this?

Quote: Originally Posted by Robert the Grim Well IF Intel is true to their word and IF Merom is truly the advancement that they say, then Merom is the way to go. It is true that dual-core in and of itself is not all...

hmm, people here keep mentioning this new chipset as being far superior to the one coming out in january. can someone please explain why it's so superior? what i do know is that the new chipset wont be out until the end of 2006 and i...

Quote: Originally Posted by 2atlow8 But you will be left with an inferior chipset. The Meron will be introduced with its own platform. merom will get its own chipset but not until late in the year. so if you...

this is for people who are fearful to buy a yonah laptop in january because merom will be out maybe even only 6 months later. this wont completely aleviate their upgradability fears but it seems like it may.

Quote: Originally Posted by drizek well actually from teh anandtech article, merom will have an 800mhz FSB. can you give a link to your anandtech article please? everywhere else i've seen, including this...

here's the thread with the article... http://www.notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=113034