2013-05-26, 04:52 PM
Dusk Wrote:The microarchitectural changes typically don't matter as much as the process changes. If you're not doing anything particularly intensive, you're not going to see much value in waiting.
Wrong! You have to take a closer look on a case by case basis. Process changes often don't mean that much in practice. Look at Sandy Bridge compared to Ivy Bridge. The highlight of Ivy was supposed to be the new process, but as it turns out, it was actually the microarchitecture changes (in this case in the iGPU) that mattered!
Haswell is worth the wait if you want to get a laptop due to the fact that Intel has greatly refined the design as far as power consumption goes, which is rather important for a laptop. In addition to that, the iGPU gets a huge performance increase with Haswell as well, so much so that dedicated GPUs have become obsolete unless you are aiming for something high end (which is silly in a laptop anyway).