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Apple's Phil Schiller at Intel Developer Forum, Viiv Contest

Reach said:
Tout it once you actually manage to put out some notebooks with it, until then, you better shut up, or else people notice that the chips you speak so highly of is nowhere to be found in any of your mobile products..

Man I want a new Macbook Pro..
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Man I thought I would never see the day when Apple fans would be slamming Apple corporate for not releasing an "Intel" chipped Macintosh product! :eek:

But these last few weeks have proven that thought to be totally false! But I guess I am still old school :(
 
I think it was referencing a pimple. ;) Just kiddin.

Timothy Flint said:
Isn;t it strange that people call someone Nimrod as an insult? The Bible calls Nimrod "a mighty one on the earth."
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bjdku said:
Jobs is on a rampage, and Viiv is a launching pad to a broader market.
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Please Apple, DON'T start putting stupid stickers on your machines with stupid names like VIIV on it.. That's just stupid...
 
We will never see Viiv stickers on ANY Mac.Never!

Apple didn't go with the marketing of "Intel Inside" and it won't go with the PeeCee Viiv BS either.

If I were Michael Dell I'd be a bit worried about now though if Apple did indeed sell 5,000,000 C2D iMac's already.


[edit] After re-reading that Otellini meant INTEL has sold 5,000,000 C2D chips not Apple selling 5,000,000 iMacs. [/edit]
 
ckodonnell said:
I think it was referencing a pimple. ;) Just kiddin.
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Mighty Oxford says you are both wrong :p

Oxford said:
nimrod |?nimräd|noun
chiefly humorous a skillful hunter. ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Hebrew Nimr? d , the name of the great-grandson of Noah, reputed for his skill as a hunter (see Gen. 10:8-9).
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Peace said:
We will never see Viiv stickers on ANY Mac.Never!

Apple didn't go with the marketing of "Intel Inside" and it won't go with the PeeCee Viiv BS either.

If I were Michael Dell I'd be a bit worried about now though if Apple did indeed sell 5,000,000 C2D iMac's already.
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hehe Yea, he would have been, but that's 5 mill C2D's, not 5 mill iMacs. :)
 
Reach said:
Please Apple, DON'T start putting stupid stickers on your machines with stupid names like VIIV on it.. That's just stupid...
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So obsessed with the sticker, who said anything about a sticker? They might though. Everyone is just going to have to face it, Apple is growing up and they are trying to become everywhere. Jobs said it himself. Well, you can't be everywhere and be unique.
 
When?????

:confused: He didn't want to mean that we won't MBP C2D revision until november, or yes???

Please don't I'm getting crazy just for waiting MBP C2D release!!!!!
 
fastlane1588 said:
Did they just say quad core mobile chips by november? Do you think that would be why apple isnt updating the mbps yet?
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The C2D merom chips have to be soldered to those Macbook Pro motherboards. That delays the assembly and packaging time by weeks. They are shipped from China. The iMac came out, what, 2 weeks ago? I would give it another 2 weeks or so.

At least with the iMac they could BTO the first 2 weeks of C2D merom deliveries with chips placed into sockets of existing iMacs.

What is really cool is the November 16 date for release of C2Q clovertown will reult in chips that socket right into MacPros! In fact many intrepid folks who already bought Mac Pros will simply buy chips from online and socket them right in. Anandtech.com already verified they are immediately recognized and fully work!!

Yes, C2D merom was tailor made for Mac Books and I for one bet Steevie-poo is chomping at the bit to get them deployed. I for one will be a buyer.

But that is nothing compared to the happy surprise you folks will have when you realize that the recent iMacs have already been shipping with NEW Airport 802.11n! The folks who have installed Vista RC1 have been seeing it. MacOSX 10.4.x has not been updated to recognize that card or the clovertown chips. Yet . . .

Rocketman
 
bdj21ya said:
...the exciting thing is that current Mac Pro owners will probably be able to swap the current chips out for some Quad-cores, making a pretty sweet Octo-core machine.
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Intel's wholesale price for those quad core chips at 2.66Ghz is just over $1000. Retail will be higher How many people will spend over $2K for the upgrade?
 
bjdku said:
Did anyone notice this comment in the second linked story?
https://www.macrumors.com/c.php?u=h...006/09/26/Apple_rocks_up_at_IDF/&t=1159309802

The transition to Intel, along with the new form factor of the MacBook, has seen Apple's marketshare rise from 6% in January to 12% now, a fairly decent sized jump.


Where did that 12% marketshare number come from, did I miss something?
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That refers to notebook only sales. The MacBook is "supply constrained" because they sold way too many of them. It is a really good value.

Rocketman
 
ChrisA said:
Intel's wholesale price for those quad core chips at 2.66Ghz is just over $1000. Retail will be higher How many people will spend over $2K for the upgrade?
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You're right, at that price few would purchase the upgrade. Maybe in a year or so the price could go down (assuming AMD keeps the competitive heat on)
 
Read the rules, you need to be a PC OEM or PC OED to enter.

I know because I was considering it! Although it would be a more tedious selection process, opening the contest to general public would have made this more interesting, or even to design schools.
 
damienvfx said:
By the crazy Merom MBP clan. I'm one of them.
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This is totally the biggest evidence I have seen thus far to suggest that the new Merom MBP's will be released at Photokina. I'm 1000% sure.
 
The reason Apple did not announce any MBP CD2 upgrades at the Intel conference is because they would look like idiots....since Dell, HP, Sony, etc has already released notebooks with the CD2.

I am so tired of waiting for my MBP CD2!!!
 
JDOG_ said:
Today's announcements from Intel and DirectTV bring a little life to the platform though, it will be interesting to see what happens with that and iTV
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What announcement?

The only thing I can find is the Jan 06 announcement that Intel ViiV machines will be able to watch stuff recorded on a DirecTV box.

That IS interesting of course. DirecTV is Murdoch, and he tends to look at international deals (he has satellite TV in US, South America, UK, Italy, India, Asia/HK, Australia, NZ). If a ViiV box works with my satellite box, that's reason enough to go ViiV in preference to iTV. I'd prefer iTV working with my sat box.
 
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