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I haven't noticed any slowdown or felt held back in the slightest by my Haswell i5. I don't even feel an itch to overclock it even though I easily can, since it's already so bloody damned fast. I wasn't constrained by budget but spending more than that seems absurd to me unless i'm trying to...

Real gaming is great on it, for what it is. (after dual channeling it.. I doubt there is a 12.5" laptop anywhere that games better in its' off hours, nonwithstanding some alienware or clevo 11.6's that have dGPU's) throttling is always nearly instant (meaning performance is static) and not...

The 725 supports dual channel ram but nearly none of them shipped with a 2nd ram stick. They also reviewed a model with a TN panel. Adding more ram to mine doubled the graphics scores. But yeah thermal throttling just about does the chip in. Carrizo will fare better but will it have a chance...

I hope by "dead end market", you mean, the top selling laptops on Amazon for many years running. Even my parents have one. The haswell celerons are the best bang for the buck I've ever seen in mobile hardware. Equivalent AMD's are 400-500 dollar systems. On a tangent: the only design win...

If they hit a wall at 10nm they can just move into 3d stacking

I'm only seeing 14.12, which has been out since december...

I sort of disagree with your last point. If you pick up a 290 or 290x today, it'll hold up fairly well at least until the next console generation hits and raises the bar again. And you had 5870's before, so you weren't exactly missing out on *that much*. But then I lag a bit and tend to...

Not sure why anybody thought a die shrink of haswell would be exciting.

A 2M/4T chip that doesn't even dent a quad core haswell with Iris Pro. I have an 860k, it's great, but it is nowhere in the same league as a quad haswell. cpu-wise.

They need to continue scaling the core size and IPC. eg the leap between P3, Core 1, 2, and now haswell sized cores and idealize around 2 or 4 cores that HT as needed. But I do love me a good 8C/8T chip for VM's.

Stock XFX 290x DD case side panel off. Stable, not too worried.

Fine, lay out some formulas that prove your point. It won't help you without benchmarks.

Unless you're pushing the high end of 4k gaming you won't notice.

"delayed" inside of 2015. when broadwell isn't even out.

I went towards 'mainstream' effortless builds years ago for the same reason I tend to use Ubuntu instead of Arch linux. I just don't have the time to waste.

Yeah once you get into 1080p modern gaming the APU's lose ground fast. Current rumor is Carrizo is a 2x boost of GPU over Kaveri, but take it with a grain of salt. It'd be nice to have one desktop chip that's on par with the consoles though.

You'd get away even on old used trinity chips for HTPC but for that sort of thing I'd recommend carrizo-L over carrizo unless you need medium-gaming performance. I forget if they're going native-4k decode or not but unless you need *that* there's nothing that a kabini/beema APU can't do at the...

I remember being floored when a 35w dual core sandy bridge went toe to toe with my Q6600 way back when the Thinkpad T420 was new.

Yeah. holding back the 290x is mainly why, too. The 860k is fantastic though, for what it is.

Yeah fair point. ended up biting on a 4690k instead of the 4670k because it was cheaper..

The only time HT would help me is with vmware viewer and all I ever run are very low-end use cases like Kali linux and a couple of lab VM's (metasploitable, vulnerable web app labs, etc. They don't require anything in the way of actual compute) Only reason I was looking at the Xeon was "similar...

Putting together an upgrade from an AMD APU. If I overclock the K at all I won't be pushing it past 4.0 (if that) unless it can go much further on stock air. Kind of figure the HT of the xeon will help more, but the only use for this is gaming (paired with a 290x), so it may be a complete wash...

Mantle may be 'beta' but it's shipped. It's in drivers, it's in games, and it works. Anything further is 'tweaking' and DX12 will go through the same process.

And then they'll sigh, realize it was the internet, and nothing in 2025 has evolved past human internet behavior yet. /aside; I'd be truly shocked if 20 years from now anybody is rocking a 2014 CPU. It won't handle all the 8k-3d-VR movies...

http://www.lenovo.com/shop/emea/content/pdf/ThinkPad/Edge/E555FSEN.pdf Info elsewhere (their IL site) says FX-7500 and R5 M240 dGPU, with 1080p screen option. Probably dead on arrival with the ruined touchpad design though.

I don't even get bottlenecked on an i5-3320M @ 2.6.

All of the octo-cores are ~decent~ and smash intel for price/performance ratio especially the 8***'s.

I'll admit it leaves them able to be extremely 'mobile' with the new code base, cutting out legacy cruft. It would be nice if they at least lumped in the current bleeding edge though. Kaveri, Sea islands, beema.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_bordeaux_strategy&num=1 Leaving all the current and old GPU's in the dust...

with HT. 8gb of ram. Very 'balanced' if you could call it that.

Would upgrading from a 660Ti to this be held back by CPU @ 1440p on a dual core Ivy Bridge @ 3ghz?

The IPS FHD panel in the 725 is, to my eyes, perfect. More accurate than the IPS on my X230. I lack any calibration equipment though.

It should support seamless dual graphics via mantle, both cards being GCN.

Until the open-source driver situation improves, buying AMD for linux *for open source* is unwise. You won't get the full brunt of the GPU, and OpenCL is still borked, forcing the use of catalyst.

Good luck with that. The TDP requirements of tablets would crush performance and cause extreme throttling, to the point it might as well be bay trail or mullins. Now, an X230 style tablet.....(it had a 35W intel. it could work!)

http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/X550ZE/specifications/ With dGPU even. should be a gaming monster if they price it similar to the richland + 8750m sleekbooks.

The 11e barely qualifies as a thinkpad. it doesn't even have a touchpoint. It's probably built better than dell's 11.6, but it's the exact same class of device as is.

The X130e, 131e and 140e are the same, exact, chassis. (with a couple of port differences, but otherwise, exact.)

@tybert7 ; 6-7 hours idle, 5 wifi browsing, 2~ full load. @reb00tin: it's built a hell of a lot better than modern thinkpads (excepting the X140e...that's a tank.), and undercuts the X240 by quite a lot when you feature parity them. I'd say mine was ~well worth~ the 1200. It's no gaming...

I can confirm they're all Intel SSDs. specifically the Pro 1500 line. I don't foresee any reliability issues with these drives.