Late last week Intel announced its first workstation-grade Xeon CPUs for laptops. The exact details aren't available, nor is a release date, although the details it did release are intriguing.
Xeons have been available for high-end desktops doing work like CAD and other graphic design because they have features a business power user would want, like error correcting code (ECC) memory and the vPro business management features.
The laptop processor, the Xeon E3-1500M v5, is meant for that same market of power users who are on the go or move between locations and need mobility. And while the new Skylake processor will have some advanced features like ECC, there are some other goodies.
The Xeon E3-1500M v5 will include Thunderbolt 3 and USB Type-C ports, which support 10Gbps USB 3.1 Gen 2 transfer speeds. It will also have its own optimized graphics, although Intel did not go into details. The Xeon has never been known as a graphics champ since it runs on servers, but the upcoming Skylake line is said to have very good graphics, so we may see a desktop Xeon with Skylake-level graphics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2015, @01:39PM
Lenovo announced Thinkpads with this CPU already
(Score: 2, Informative) by xav on Thursday August 13 2015, @01:44PM
Yeah, Lenovo ThinkPad P50 and P70
http://news.lenovo.com/news+releases/lenovo-thinkpad-p50-p70.htm [lenovo.com]
(Score: 2) by basstard on Thursday August 13 2015, @01:51PM
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2015, @02:49PM
Well, it's a Lenovo. You don't need the lack-of-money excuse to not buy it.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2015, @02:00PM
So Intel + Lenovo, eh?
What I wonder is whether they use the Lenovo BIOS trick to spy on you or whether they opt for the Intel AMT spy engine for the job...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2015, @04:57PM
What do you think about AMT?
Why don't you like it?
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Thursday August 13 2015, @07:11PM
If those suckers would run OS X, I'd buy two of them! Damn...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2015, @09:45PM
Have you considered starting a SIG for that model? Hackintosh [google.com]
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Friday August 14 2015, @12:31AM
Uhm, I don't really understand what you mean by that. You mean put that in a signature on one of the corresponding forums?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @02:59AM
Not an actual techie?
Too young to have ever encountered the concept?
Special Interest Group [wikipedia.org]
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Friday August 14 2015, @03:28AM
I somehow didn't make the connection to confs like SIGGRAPH & Co. from this topic... Now that you mention it, it should have been obvious.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @05:02AM
Guy wants to run osx and you're surprised he's not a techie?
(Score: 2) by gallondr00nk on Thursday August 13 2015, @03:51PM
I wonder if it'll be anything like the leviathan that was the IBM ThinkPad A Series. The A30/A31 is perhaps the only laptop in the world that can take three hard drives.
Huge, comical, power guzzling monsters, but fuck me, they've got fantastic keyboards. If Lenovo released a modern version, I'd certainly buy it.
Not holding my breath though.