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Apple to Launch New MacBook Air in June-July
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Aren't IBM Power 7 cpu's for servers? With a base price of 5 grand (for the whole system)? They really don't seem like something the average consumer would use. Please share (not being sarcastic).
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Yes, server stuff and the chip module uses up to 800 watts. Not a good choice for a MacBook Air, unless you want it to double as a panini grill.
Well that could be for the high end Mac Pro or what have you and the lower end model that is more consumer friendly could be for the rest of the line. If you look at the test and date the power 7 is even more powerful that the similar offering from Intel. Each power 7 cpu has four threads(paired to 4-8 cores) vs the 2 threads max intel current offering and that was back in April of 2010 when it came out. Then if IBM wants to utilize graphene for the power 8 cpu, then its really over for Intel. IBM could easily shrink the power 6 and 7 to use the Powerbook line and then we could get ARM for the Air and easily have 14 hour battery life with out the use of weighty battery slice or extended batteries.
And none of your current applications will run on either your Powerbook or the Air.
PPC is dead for the desktop, but your hallucinations are amusing. Keep them up.
And none of your current applications will run on either your Powerbook or the Air.
PPC is dead for the desktop, but your hallucinations are amusing. Keep them up.
Yet, PPC is still the best on the market.
By which metrics?
And, isn't the PowerPC 970 (AKA "G5" according to the marketing department of a former computer company) the last general purpose PowerPC processor released? So, in that case, is it really still "on the market"?
MacRumours needs an "Absurd List" - where you can put the people who post outlandish things, but which are still fun and amusing to read.
I hope really soon! But probably not before WWDC, maybe during?! Well, who knows
I just can't wait to finally get the 11", and I want a backlit keyboard!
I hope really soon! But probably not before WWDC, maybe during?! Well, who knows
I just can't wait to finally get the 11", and I want a backlit keyboard!
It'll take time around 6 to 10 months I guess even more.
Does it worry anyone that, having spent £1400 on a new MBA, just a couple of months later OS X Lion will be coming out?
Is it a concern that your brand new computer will be running an OS probably designed to run on the NEXT gen of MBA?
Is it a concern that your brand new computer will be running an OS probably designed to run on the NEXT gen of MBA?
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I hope really soon! But probably not before WWDC, maybe during?! Well, who knows
I just can't wait to finally get the 11", and I want a backlit keyboard!
Depends on the chipset
Depends on the chipset they use. If they use a P67 or a Z68 (which is in the current crop of iMac's) then they can use whatever graphics they damn well please. If they use the H67, then yes, they have to use the Intel HD 3000.
But my money is on the Z68. It facilitates high speed caching on the SSD. Ridiculous performance improvement. Lion should make great use of it.
Depends on the chipset they use. If they use a P67 or a Z68 (which is in the current crop of iMac's) then they can use whatever graphics they damn well please. If they use the H67, then yes, they have to use the Intel HD 3000.
But my money is on the Z68. It facilitates high speed caching on the SSD. Ridiculous performance improvement. Lion should make great use of it.
It has nothing to do with the chipset. MBA is simply too small to have space for a dGPU without compromising the other innards. You can use a dGPU with any chipset, it doesn't have to be Z68 or P67.
Z68 has no mobile variant at the moment so its likelihood is zero. SSD caching is totally irrelevant too when you have SSD as your only storage.
More signs pointing to an impending MBA release:
http://appleheadlines.com/2011/05/2...-buy-points-to-a-nearby-sandy-bridge-refresh/
http://appleheadlines.com/2011/05/2...-buy-points-to-a-nearby-sandy-bridge-refresh/
Your signature is hilarious! I have the same iTouch and it really gets it done. I call it an iPad Nano.
Now if they'd just get those Peel sleeves working for the 4th gen!!!
So now that no new MBA was announced at the WWDC, are we expecting that to happen just like that? Or will we have to wait for a new, special event?
Gah, I had really hoped the update would come now.
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