Have a laptop with an i7-XX00U processor? How old is it?

"Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven) 09/11/2017 at 11:32 • Filed to: None

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I have a Toshiba laptop that has an i7-3630QM. 4 cores, 8 threads. The laptop can last forever, but I need a few hours of battery life. Battery replacements are pretty much none. I’m debating between an i7-HQ (workhorse) or i7-U (longer battery life/it’s 2-cores, 4 threads).

If I want the i7-HQ, I’ll need to consider mostly used laptops in the $750 price range I’m looking at. Everything else has in the range has an i7-6500U. These 2-core, 4 thread processors are something I am afraid won’t last as long as the HQ counterpart in regards. If you have a laptop with an i7-6500U (or 7500U), how’s it going for you? What’s it like? I could care less about HDD/SSD performance. How old is your laptop?

I’m sad. Toshiba doesn’t have a battery replacement for my laptop model anymore and if they did it’d be ridiculously expensive. The one replacement I bought off eBay a year ago is available from a multitude of websites but is of crap quality and stopped working reliably 6 months ago.

Some gifs for your time.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 09/11/2017 at 11:34

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i think my laptop has a quad core i7 from like 2008 maybe. Sounds like a rocket taking off but it still runs

Nibbles > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 09/11/2017 at 11:40

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I have a Lenovo Yoga 900 with the 2016 i7-6500U. I don’t do much in the way of intensive work with it, but everyday use (streaming, internetting, some GIMPing, etc) the battery lasts between 7 and 9 hours

Rustholes-Are-Weight-Reduction > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 09/11/2017 at 11:40

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Your plan of integrating car gifs to the text backfired: I didn’t read as much as I looked at the pictures.
My quadcore I7 is from 2014 I think.
But to the HDD/SSD debate: recently swapped my 750Gb hybrid HDD (16Gb of SSD) for a 500Gb SSD. Would never go back

404 - User No Longer Available > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 09/11/2017 at 11:52

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Intel 3xxx processor = Ivy Bridge = Circa 2012.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 09/11/2017 at 11:59

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7XXX is the late 2016 generation. 6XXX came a year before that, 5XXX came a year before that (mobile only for the most part), 4XXX a year before that, and so on. The last decent jump was 3XXX-4XXX. Everything else is only about 5% per year.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > OPPOsaurus WRX 09/11/2017 at 12:49

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Haha it’s not the CPU, it’s the cooling fan! Get in there and clean that dust out.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > Nibbles 09/11/2017 at 12:50

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How does the quality of the Lenovo feel? I’m a bit sketched out by this brand.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > 404 - User No Longer Available 09/11/2017 at 12:51

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Yep, I’m aware of the nomenclature.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 09/11/2017 at 12:52

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When I compare the U models to my QMs, they’re practically neck and neck in performance and I can’t justify it.

OPPOsaurus WRX > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 09/11/2017 at 12:55

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i know, i need to. after removing every screw i could find i still couldnt get then damn thing open

Nibbles > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 09/11/2017 at 13:00

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I wouldn’t say I’m a fanboi but I have a Yoga 900, a T560P for work and my wife has a Y70 gaming laptop. They’re built like tanks

The Yoga isn’t quite as robust as the Y70 or the T560, as it’s a daily-driver type device, but dang. Leather grain patterned soft-touch around the keys and trackpad, thin but strong casing (it’s replaceable if you smack it on the ground like I did), and the watchband hinge is about the best thing I’ve used. Infinite angles and it holds up well

Edit: When IBM ran the brand it was the gold standard, as it were. When Lenovo finished the buyout, there were some quality concerns at start but now they’re right back where they used to be.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 09/11/2017 at 13:04

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The U series processors are designed more for efficiency than power.

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 09/11/2017 at 14:00

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And that’s why I’m concerned about how resilient they will be a few years down the road when 2 cores aren’t enough.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 09/11/2017 at 16:20

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Depends on what your work load is. A U series processor is more than enough for most use cases. You only need to consider a quad core in a laptop if you plan on doing processor intensive work.