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Core i7 in Upcoming MBP's??

The next revision will probably be for the back to school season (around July - Sept) and feature some bumps. Nothing spectacular. If Apple plays the predictable hand:
  • MacBooks at 2.13 GHz and 2.53 GHz
  • MBP at 2.66 GHz (or 2.53 GHz if Apple still wants to be a cheapskate), 2.8 GHz and BTO of 3.06 GHz.
All Core 2 Duos. Now I'm guessing after the New Year, you'll see the Nehalem based mobile processors (most likely dual-core (quad-threaded)) in the notebook Macs.
 
raymondu999 said:
Wouldn't 2.26 and 2.53 be more logical for MacBooks?😕
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Doubt it. The 2.26 GHz model is more expensive than the new 2.13 GHz model. That and giving the low-end model as low a clock speed as possible is good marketing as people tend to jump for the high-end model more easily. If it was 2.26 GHz and 2.53 GHz most people would think it's too close together to justify the extra $300.
 
Tallest Skil said:
Huh, I thought people would have forgotten... 😛

Yes, I did. It's been sitting at home since Thursday. I, however, am not sitting at home, but am on campus. It's annoying. I will be returning home over Easter to be united with my Mac Pro, at which time I will port my files and install my extra GT 120, BD-RE DL/HD DVD-ROM drive, and Windows 7 64-bit.

I'm psyched.
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Congrats man, I bet your eager as hell to actually go home. I would be. 😀 Not sure if you can drive down but I would if I were you, just to go pick up the mac pro.
 
BlizzardBomb said:
Doubt it. The 2.26 GHz model is more expensive than the new 2.13 GHz model. That and giving the low-end model as low a clock speed as possible is good marketing as people tend to jump for the high-end model more easily. If it was 2.26 GHz and 2.53 GHz most people would think it's too close together to justify the extra $300.
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Most speed differentiations are less than 267 MHz. If Apple decides to go closer, then they'll change other specs to give the $300 difference.
 
iMacmatician said:
Most speed differentiations are less than 267 MHz. If Apple decides to go closer, then they'll change other specs to give the $300 difference.
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Can't really differentiate that much on the MacBook's though. Bumping the high-end to 4 GBs RAM is an option, but would add massively to Apple's cost. I don't think Apple would be too keen on offering different graphics cards and the Hard Drive can only be differentiated so much without going beyond the MBP. With the MBP, they've got the graphics card, RAM and Hard Drive to differentiate as well as the L2 cache in the processor.

The current MacBook has a dual .4 GHz difference and I think they'll roughly maintain that going into the next revision.
 
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