Core 2 Duo T7600 benchmark: Merom v. Yonah on same lappy

[whitney]

While Tom's used an ASUS-z series platform for their comparison, it gives hints what the T60 refresh/"T61" should perform around. Summarizing at TGDaily article here: http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/08/01/first ... enchmarks/

The recent history of the T-series is August and February a "refresh" and that timeline certainly is on the mark for Merom/C2Duo and then February-Vista/Santa Rosa; time will tell, but these same platform comparisons of Yonah and Merom give a good indication of what to expect from Thinkpad.

Also, preliminary results on the new chipset for "Santa Rosa" is that it's a "heater" and does that energy-heat transformation number proud. Not that great for battery life longevity, but wonderful if you need BTUs on a cold winter's night. (just looked it up here: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32230 and here, too: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33229

Anyone interested, I'll dig up that reference (I found it, above), but from what I recall, it (Santa Rosa) totally negates power conservation gained by Merom's efficiencies...then, they have 6 months to tweak that...it looks formidable, though.

Anyway, it convinced me to forget any of the ASUS products I had on my short list and look to post August T61? from Lenovo for my next laptop. (my guess it will also be X1400 GPU, too, as a standard for the mid-upgrade screen).

Pricing should be the same as the Yonah in its hey-day: http://www.mikeshardware.co.uk/CPUPricesIntel.htm

[RonS]

Link to article at Tom's Hardware: http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/08/01/first ... enchmarks/