The quest for more computing power in the mobile segment went to a new level last week as a laptop manufacturing company, Xtreme Notebooks, announced the launch of a line of products featuring Intel quad core processors from the Core 2 Duo and Extreme families.

While it is understandable that manufacturers need to include powerful processors inside their mobile computer systems in order to satisfy the general demand for more and more performance, in the case of the Xtreme Notebooks company things are a little bit more complicated as the designer and producer of the used laptop casing did not approve the said part for use with the hotter quad core processors. As the quad cores are typically running a little hotter than the single and dual core CPUs, Clevo, the manufacturer of the laptop casing used by the Xtreme Notebooks company on its Accelerator 917V series, did not yet release a compatibility note regarding these processors.

The Intel Core 2 Extreme processor that reaches 2.93GHz is listed as supported by the casing manufacturer and while Xtreme Notebooks does not use officially approved and supported CPUs, the one that are used in the Accelerator 917V for example, the Q6600 and the Q6700 that are based on the quad core architecture are only reaching the speeds of 2.4GHz and 2.66GHz respectively. According to the news site News.com, the president of Xtreme Notebooks, Steven Nichols, said that already a number of laptops were shipped to their owners.

While all this fuss about using uncertified hardware components inside the Clevo's laptop casing may very well be for nothing, it is still possible for the Accelerator 917V's owners to meet a couple of nasty surprises down the road if the quad core processors decide to overheat. On the other hand, for most end users, the entire quad core processor architecture is simply overkill, as most applications are not designed to make the most of the still new CPU design.