Intel’s quad-core i7-740QM and i7-840QM show up on Dell laptop menu

Dell’s propensity for dishing out new hardware without an announcement has struck again, though this time the company might have jumped the gun as not even Intel has yet officially acknowledged the existence of these Core i7 CPUs. The i7-740QM and its senior sibling are straight replacements for the i7-x20QM models: they retain the same cache and eight-threaded operational paradigm while jacking default and Turbo Boost clock speeds up to a maximum 3.2GHz single-core pace on the i7-840QM. Best of all? Dell’s price for the 740QM is currently lower than that for its predecessor, so you might wanna order one up before somebody wakes up — literally and figuratively — over at Round Rock HQ.

[Thanks, Paul]

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