Mobility X1600

[BlingBlingArsch]

Just stumbled over the Inq´s article and i was wondering how much performance increase compared to a X700 mobility this new Mobility X1600 would bring us?

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27861

 

[fbrdphreak]

It will probably perform near a GF Go 6800, depending on clocks.

Maybe even better!

 

[Hacp]

90nm means less power 🙂.

 

[Scouzer]

i wonder when this will hit the real world

 

[bearxor]

Hopefully Dell will get this and put it in the form factor of the 6000. OMG upgrade 4 me!

 

[dexvx]

On a 12" notebook? No, unless you want it to be rediculously fat.

 

[Keeir]

Would you call an 12" ibook or 12" Powerbook ridiculously fat?

They both use discrete graphics (right?) built at best on 130 nm processes.

 

[lazybum131]

Yeah, but even desktop FX5200 and Radeon 9550 come in half-height cards that can be passively cooled by puny heatsinks. The MR X1600 would have to be really power optimized (less power then the MR X600) to fit in anything smaller than a 14" with current notebook cooling designs.

 

[cheesehead]

I'd love an iBook with one of those in there. That said, a 14" laptop would likely make more sense.

I was curious: Why not use an aluminum shell and a heatpipes, similar to that Zalman case that was all the rage a while back, effectively turning the entire laptop shell into one giant heatsink? It would make sense with the Powerbook G4 especially. (It's got an all-aluminum frame.)

 

[Trippytiger]

Because laptop manufacturers don't want to horribly burn their customers by dumping all of the heat produced by the components directly onto their skin?

 

[cheesehead]

Originally posted by: Trippytiger
Because laptop manufacturers don't want to horribly burn their customers by dumping all of the heat produced by the components directly onto their skin?

Yes, but they do that anyway. (Ever actually used a DTR laptop on your lap?)
At least this way, the heat would be evenly distributed over the entire laptop.

 

[Hacp]

Originally posted by: Trippytiger
Because laptop manufacturers don't want to horribly burn their customers by dumping all of the heat produced by the components directly onto their skin?

90nm ATI runs pretty cool clocked at an acceptable speed.

 

[Trippytiger]

Originally posted by: Cheesehead
Yes, but they do that anyway. (Ever actually used a DTR laptop on your lap?)
At least this way, the heat would be evenly distributed over the entire laptop.

I know DTRs get very hot, but the fact is that most of the heat is still being exhausted right out of the laptop. If all of that was intentionally directed to the very surface of the laptop, I'd expect it to get even hotter.