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Intel 5th Gen Core Series Performance Preview With 2015 Dell XPS 13
MojoKid writes: Intel's strategically timed CES 2015 launch of their new 5th Gen Core Series processors for notebooks was met with a reasonably warm reception, though it's always difficult to rise above the noise of CES chatter. Performance claims for Intel's new chip promise major gains in graphics and more modest increases in standard compute applications. However, the biggest bet Intel placed on the new Broadwell-U architecture is performance-per-watt throughput and battery life in premium notebook products that are now in production with major OEM partners. A few manufacturers were early out of the gate with new Core i5 5XXX series-based machines, however, none of the major players caught the same kind of buzz that Dell received, with the introduction of their new XPS 13 Ultrabook with its near bezel-less 13-inch WQHD (3200X1800) display. As expected, the Core i5-5200U in this machine offered performance gains of anywhere from 10 to 20 percent, in round numbers, depending on the benchmark. In gaming and graphics testing is where the new 5200U chip took the largest lead over the previous gen Core i5-4200U CPU, which is one of the most common processors found in typical ultrabook style 13-inch machines.
So the laptop is full of ridiculously advanced tech, even in the graphics department but the keyboard looks cheap and really to me the more travel there is, the better. Won't somebody make a laptop with thick keys?, or at least some "high end keyboard" option. Seems like there's $5 worth of keyboard there, on a one-piece computer that's closer to $1000. What if there were $50 worth of keyboard, I wonder.
Providing a right ctrl key is nice I guess, but I wonder when we'll see a genius including a right Fn key so we can do single-handed page up, page down, end and home.
The 4790t does not have 8 cores. It's 4 cores with hyper-threading.
Still massively impressive at just 45W.
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Huh? The U-series i7 is a dual-core part, it has the same number of threads as the i5. That's always been the case, prior generations never had a quad-core U-series i7 either.