Re:Intel Skylake Review
by igravious on Thursday August 06, 2015 @06:50AM
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Dell's XPS[1] range should eventually get a refresh also, but Dell seems to have a habit of launching laptops juuust before Intel does a refresh which is myopic or careless or I don't know what.
Looking at those benchmarks[2] the Skylake i5 is no slouch but I just have an aversion to the i5 for no rational reason whatsoever. Seems to be clocked lower and doesn't have hyper-threading. If you're going to get the top of the line CPU and chipset you may as well go for the i7 rather than the i5. is my thinking. I guess the i5 exists to create mid-range gear -- pair an i7 with a dedicated GPU, i5 uses integrated; i7 gets a retina panel w/ touch, i5 gets 1080p and no touch; i7 gets more RAM, i5 gets less; and so on.
Re:Intel Skylake Review
by toyg on Thursday August 06, 2015 @09:38AM
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Dell probably does that so that they can quickly benefit from the following price drop. Most of their market will not even know what the latest processor is, anyway.
Looking at those benchmarks[2] the Skylake i5 is no slouch but I just have an aversion to the i5 for no rational reason whatsoever. Seems to be clocked lower and doesn't have hyper-threading. If you're going to get the top of the line CPU and chipset you may as well go for the i7 rather than the i5. is my thinking. I guess the i5 exists to create mid-range gear -- pair an i7 with a dedicated GPU, i5 uses integrated; i7 gets a retina panel w/ touch, i5 gets 1080p and no touch; i7 gets more RAM, i5 gets less; and so on.
[1] http://www.dell.com/ie/p/xps-13-9343-laptop/pd
[2] http://anandtech.com/show/9483/intel-skylake-review-6700k-66...