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http://www.dell.com/us/p/inspiron-3655-desktop/pd?ref=PD_Familycan you link me to one?
Yea, those are outrageous prices. You can get a Dell XPS with a 4790 for less than that.
Would it be possible for vendors to make a Carrizo laptop thats in 35W mode while plugged in and switches to 15W mode when on battery only? That would be a nice feature in my opinion.
I think that would be a good idea.
The main issue would be cooling.
That can and is done with software a lot of the time. I've seen that all that way back in the Pentium IIIm days (600mhz/500mhz or 850mhz/700mhz). Now, it's obviously dynamically clocked a lot better so they can and do optionally put upper limits on CPU performance when on battery. All fully adjustable.
Looking at this graph of Excavator (high density library, AVFS) I wonder if they could even have a 5W Carrizo that could transform into a 15W Carrizo when docked:
I doubt you'll have a good experience with 5W carrizo even in a tablet context.
Looking at how that graph scales down to ~2.25W per module, I do wonder if they are considering it though.
Going by a very rough estimate, my guess is that at 2.25W module would have 62% of the frequency of a 7.5W module.
I would buy it just to test but i just crashed my car...It's nothing but notebook hardware stuck in a desktop chassis. They're charging a premium for low power usage and large HDD + RAM. Kind of silly, though, since the mobile-oriented motherboard + cooling solution may throttle just like a notebook. Hard to know for sure.
I would buy it just to test but i just crashed my car...
I would buy it just to test but i just crashed my car...
I would buy it just to test but i just crashed my car...
I would buy it just to test but i just crashed my car...