The ones who matter here are the ones destined for mere mortals, the affordable and mass available machines, or in other words the 'P' and 'T' series.
The extra S there probably denotes a smaller package, or form factor, as Intel also likes to put it. They're going big for it and I reckon it's a very good idea - if mass production follows.
So the P series are the ones to look out for: 25W CPUs, that Intel can easily achieve with the new 45nm process. These will allow for cooler running machines with longer battery life, on affordable laptops, without those production limited LV or ULV CPUs. They're only ones available with a proper laptop TDP.
The P9500 would be my choice for a laptop, since it is a full fledged Penryn running at 2.53GHz with a 1066MHz FSB.
The increase in FSB speed is welcomed, but I'm reserving further hysteria until I see if the power consumption hasn't gone through the roof.
The 35W TDP for the rest is mostly crap, if they end up chewing that kind of power on a testbed and not considerably lower.
What they also kindly did was bring the X9100 with a clockspeed in excess of 3GHz, 3.06 more precisely. Not bad but the 45W TDP is outrageous. I already showed you they have all the means to do better if they want to.
The QX9300 hasn't a defined clockspeed, but the 45W TDP is enough for easily transportable gaming machines, a good compromise for the kind of power it will deliver. SLI should be joining these CPUs anyway.
As for the rest, nothing really amazing stands out, though the SL9400 is an interesting CPU for SFFs.
Source: Informars
Keywords: Core 2 Duo Quad QX9300 X9100 P9500 Penryn
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