Which chip? If you're asking about the Intel i7, Nov 17 seems to be the date. It's going to be "relatively expensive", especially the motherboards and RAM that work with it -- maybe $3k for a top-end system, and $1k for just the minimum parts to upgrade a core 2. It requires a new socket, as well as specially spec'd (low voltage) DDR3 so that the chip doesn't burn out as it would with high-voltage DDR2 for Core 2's/Opterons.
His point was that people traded 5-10 years ago too and some of them made money without a Cray's computing power.
I'm shocked Intel is finally coming out with a DDR3 board. I'll believe that when I see it. They are famous for having blazing everything except what you plug everything into. For them to make that Skulltrail a DDR2 board is as stupid as can be. Why do we buy Intel chips and Asus boards? Because Intel has idiots working there who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. It's like selling Chevy Corvette's with Yugo engines.
Most of the laptops I have experienced get real hot and eventually crash. I had a dell laptop before which required 2 motherboards in a year. Do you really trust a laptop? My laptop also freezes from time to time requiring a reboot. If you are trading seriously, then you need a desktop...maybe not the highest end, but a desktop that is generally faster and wont be prone to crashes like laptops.
A must read blog with the original article embedded in it about Intels proof that GPUs don't outperform CPUs by the marketing number of 100x. http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=172350
I heard its in the i9. Also heard that INTC has a 6-core CPU in the works... maybe they decided that 2 more cores was better than integrated video?