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Intel Admits A Chip Error - Shares Halted - is it Sandy Bridge!
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Sure would hate to have been someone getting the "jump" on selling my old MBP in anticipation of a week or two wait. 1+ months with no MBP is going to be a LLLOOOOONNNGGGGG time.
To be honest, I would consider it. I haven't finished reading everything yet about the issue but if I had purchased a SB notebook I would be looking into returning it just in case.
I don't know what you paid for it but I'm sure you worked hard for it and you don't want to get stuck with a defective system.
Again, MHO but retuning it is a much better solution than waiting to see of HP fixes/replaces it down the road.
-P
Apple's plans would be long to developed to change any course now. If this impacts them, they will simply have to wait like everybody else until the parts are fixed and released. If not impacted, then they keep going ahead along the original roadmap.
Thank you,
I think I will return it.
Now I am not sure if I should buy an imac or mbp now or wait.
What they are sold for has nothing to do to what it would cost Apple to make their own.
The question is if you can fit more than 6 Gbps performance in a notebook, otherwise it makes no sense to go PCI Express.
This is true. They should be in production now to meet the initial orders. Where this really burns Apple is laptops that have other chips (CPUs, RAM, etc) soldered onto the board (like the MBA). The rework on those boards is going to be a pain in the ass since you can't just send the board back. I would bet that Apple doesn't do anything with the MBA boards (assuming that are going to sandy bridge) since they will likely not be using the affected SATA ports.
GL
Apple does not need fabs. They do design the A4, as they did their own PPC chipsets.
In any case, there isn't enough time for Apple to design and manufacture their own PCIe SSD from scratch, or otherwise this MBP suddenly became 2012 MBP.
For Heaven's sake, Intel screwed us again. They are making MBP's delay even longer. 13 inch MBP will have
1. Core 2 DUO again
2. Wait for these issues to be resolved, but then it won't be released until April/May
3. Go for AMD
4. Go for G5
We are screwed either way.
1. Core 2 DUO again
2. Wait for these issues to be resolved, but then it won't be released until April/May
3. Go for AMD
4. Go for G5
We are screwed either way.
I am not saying it will happen, but it could if they had started thinking about this a long time ago.
It's not a crazy possibility, given what they did with the MBA (admittedly less ambitious).
It's too late to decide NOW to go for AMD for the next iteration. But Q2 could bring AMD Fusion machines if they had already decided to go for that instead of SB last year.
The production of Llano was pushed to July, meaning that the availability will be late Q3 at the earliest. The first CPUs will be for desktops only
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/di...lano_Production_to_Initiate_in_July_2011.html
Does it affect MPB's?
The issue cited by Intel in today's release does not affect notebook chipsets such as those expected to be used in a Sandy Bridge update to Apple's MacBook Pro line, which is also due for an update
(From macrumors front page!)
The issue cited by Intel in today's release does not affect notebook chipsets such as those expected to be used in a Sandy Bridge update to Apple's MacBook Pro line, which is also due for an update
(From macrumors front page!)
Llano was advanced to Q2:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/di...nch_Again_Llano_Comes_Ahead_of_Bulldozer.html