If you want your laptop to become thoroughly awesome, just wait until the third quarter. According to DigiTimes, Intell is planning to launch its first quad-core processor for notebooks. The unit, known as the Core 2 Extreme QX9300, will be released later this year with pricing set at US$1,038 for thousand-unit tray quantities.

The Core 2 Extreme QX9300 will be manufactured at 45 nanometers and run at a core frequency of 2.53GHz. The CPU will come in a socket P package and support front side bus speeds up to 1066 MHz. The chip will include 12 megabytes of L2 cache and operate at 45 watts of electricity.

No comment has been released from Apple as to whether these units will find their way into upcoming generations of MacBook, MacBook Pro or MacBook Air notebooks.

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