Comments on: Intel quad-core mobile chip coming: Is it overkill?

Intel is slated to roll out it first quad-core mobile processor in August.

[ikramerica--2008]

It's not overkill because these mobile chips are also used in various small footprint desktops, not least of which are the iMac and Mac mini models. Really, they should be classified as "low power" chips and not mobile chips, as they are applicable to any lower power/low heat/low noise product.

[gerrrg]

Everyone knows better. As processors improve, software can become incredibly sophisticated.

We've only just begun to enter the digital age, let's not assume that what we have is good enough.

[coryschulz]

Do you think these will get put into the iMac this October? I'm hoping so!!!

[Dalkorian]

Please please please ... get these things in the Macbook Pro lineup soon. That might push me over the top to get one sooner rather than later. Please?!? ;)

[Raabscuttle]

I am reminded of when Time (or maybe it was Newsweek) called the original Pentium a "Hyundai with a jet engine" - saying that some particular processor is too much processor isn't anything new at all...

[Maccess]

It depends on the use. The trend in laptops is towards mid-power, but long battery life computers that are perfect for malling and surfing in Wi-Fi hotspots. However, I use a higher end laptop for work that is attached to multiple monitors. In this configuration I fully maximize the CPU with over a dozen applications running simultaneously. Undocked, however, I don't use as many applications, so the perfect use for a dual or quad core mobile CPU would be in a laptop with multi-monitor capability whose main use is as a desktop replacement, but is light enough without the dock to be almost an ultraportable.