they're coming!!!!!! really soon too..... www.sagernotebook.com anyone else see these at another site?
and the race begins... this was the talk of the town at the CES 2006 in Las Vegas http://www.funponsel.com/blog/archives/2006/01/12/dell-inspiron-9400-laptop-with-dual-core-cpu/
Ive seen this one from Dell http://laptops.letsreviewit.com/dell-inspiron-9400-with-intel-duo-core-released and Mac http://laptops.letsreviewit.com/apple-macbook-pro-15-4-intel-core-duo-released
Why? I'm in multiprocessors since PIII Xeons. Only good for servers. Over the last 10 years, almost no software (for traders) takes advantage of these. You can easily observe that looking at individual processor load-graphs. This has been pointed out in many places. Ever seen a benchmark for run of the mill software? Are you going to write the soft yourself?
the Intel dual cores are not nearly as serious as dual core AMD's there are more coming into the fray as we speak.....