Drop in C2D prices = cheaper laptops?

[maniacmusician]

The title pretty much says it all. If and when the Intel drops the prices on its Core 2 Duos (IIRC, this is supposed to be in April), are we going to see those discounts in the prices of offerings from System76? I'm thinking mainly about laptops here.

Thanks!

[thomasaaron]

We are always interested in providing our customers with great computers at competitive prices. If the savings gets passed on to us (which, as of yet, is uncertain) we would certainly pass it on to them.

Best,
Tom

[gus sett]

Wow gentlemen. This kind of talk is not only most welcome, it's
the basis for reciprocal gratitude. guess you could call my 1st cpu this
millennium an Intel single M series. could have been considered a notebook
computing prop head back when Epson Z80's were served up. remember
dBase II in ROM? so Celeron whet this appetite, but only because all vendor
parties including distributor parted with it for well under 500 including tax.
if Intel is generous 2nd qtr and beyond, they would edge out AMD for this
next fleet addition/expansion :KS

We are always interested in providing our customers with great computers at competitive prices. If the savings gets passed on to us (which, as of yet, is uncertain) we would certainly pass it on to them.

Best,
Tom

[maniacmusician]

We are always interested in providing our customers with great computers at competitive prices. If the savings gets passed on to us (which, as of yet, is uncertain) we would certainly pass it on to them.

Best,
Tom
okay, cool.

One more thing; Intel is due to release the new Penryn processors this year (45nm FTW!). How fast do you plan to have these up for consumption? Within the year? or is next year a more likely release date? I need to buy a laptop this year, so this is all quite interesting from a consumer's perspective.

[crichell]

One more thing; Intel is due to release the new Penryn processors this year (45nm FTW!). How fast do you plan to have these up for consumption?

Not sure yet. Intel's processor's and chipsets have been moving extrmeely fast. We've been around for just over a year and during that time we've had three different Intel processors and four chipsets - whew!

[maniacmusician]

Not sure yet. Intel's processor's and chipsets have been moving extrmeely fast. We've been around for just over a year and during that time we've had three different Intel processors and four chipsets - whew!
haha, understandable. Three different processor architectures? Which ones are you talking about? The Core 2 Duo is new, and I actually wasn't aware that any of the other architectures were released within the last year.

Unless you're counting the Core 2 Duo M as a different architecture. And possibly the Core Duo, but isn't that more than a year old?

[crichell]

We started with Pentium M, then Core Duo, then Core 2 Duo. Each one required a new chipset and new motherboard and some Core 2 Duo systems required another montherboard chipset change for Merom. All within just over a year.

[maniacmusician]

Thought that I would bring this up again since the prices have been slashed. Is this going to be passed down to us?

Also, another question. Intel is coming out with its Santa Rosa platform, the highlight of which are the second generation Merom processors. I know that we probably aren't going to see this, but I was just wondering. To be honest, I know that you're a small company and you need to pick and choose what you're going to support and include in your systems. If it helps, I think it's more crucial to leave room for major advances of technology in the future, such as the 45nm processors that will debut later. I'd like to see the second generation (first gen is never quite good enough :) ) of Penryn processors in System76 computers (codename Montevina for the Centrino platform) more than anything else.

[Alvinius]

From what I understand the price drop did not include laptop processors, am I wrong on this?