Does anyone know anything about this processor? I am interested in Dell laptop with it that came out not that long ago. Has "turbo" speed of 3ghz (not sure what that means)

 

i7 is the latest and greatest.

to have a mobile i7 means that your laptop will have a quad core processor in it, one of the first.

 

Core i7 is a completely new architecture. The "turbo boost" you're referring to is actually real-time processor frequency scaling IIRC it's also core-independent based upon requirements and temperature among other things with the maximum boost only being applied to one core. [in this case I believe it's a 10*133Mhz boost over 1.7GHz for appx. 3.0GHz on Core 1]

Performance gains, as usual, will depend on your application. If you are looking for a general purpose computer I'd be inclined to suggest Core-2 just for the bang/buck ratio. Core-2 is going to be phased out in favor of processors based on i7 and i5 in the next few months. But depending on where the market goes, and how the changes are implemented YMMV

 

you seem to be looking for a laptop quite often.

 

you fail to realize puffy is rich and therefore has no concern on bang / buck ratio

 

A core 2 duo is probably your best bet. You'll never be able to FULLY utilize the i7 quad cores.
Only benefit I see to this is if your into virtualization. --VMware

 

You don't need a fucking i7. :rofl:

 

A core 2 Extreme Processor wll run you around 500-600 bucks....Imagine the cost of the i7

 

if you have to ask get i5 750. cheaper and you most likely will not be able to tell the difference
i7 starts at ~$300 but the extreme can be over 1k i thi

 

Aren't you gay? Buy a Mac.