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Intel Details Chip Roadmap 2007-2008: Penryn and Nehalem

Give me something NOW!

Come on Apple, you're getting as bad as Adobe! I don't care about the roadmap, what can you do for me now? I'm ready to order a Mini NOW.
It's just like Adobe announcing Photoshop CS3 then telling us it'll ship in the Spring. THE SPRING?!!!??? I was expecting it to ship immediately. UGH!
 
And thus we now know why Apple went Intel. IMHO one of the boldest and smartest moves Jobs has ever made. I really really doubt the PPC would be anywhere near where AMD and more importantly Intel is right now. One thing that wasn't mentioned in the front article is that Intel is FINALLY throwing the memory controller onboard the die. OMG. This is my next MBP. *Wets himself in anticipation*
 
Sopranino said:
I have to wonder if Apple will be able to actually produce new versions of its computer lines whenever Intel releases a new chip. Any thoughts.....

Sopranino
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When the Intel switch was announced, the majority of people (me included) got the wrong idea that because there were new, more powerful chips coming out regularly, there'd be new Macs coming out in line with them. Hell, the whole thing about Intel having a clear roadmap was one of The Steve's big points in his keynote.

But, Apple has already clearly shown that regular updates are not part of its strategy. See the fact that the minis are still Core Duo, that the notebooks took about two months longer to appear with C2D than it took Dell and co to launch their C2D models and, of course, the fact that the 4-core Xeon chips have been out for months and Apple hasn't slotted them in the Mac Pros.

New Macs come out when Apple wants them to come out, not when there are new chips are out. It's highly selective strategy and in my opinion it's wrong and outdated, because they can no longer hide behind the fact that they have different chips to their competitors as they could do with the PPC chips.
 
AlBDamned said:
New Macs come out when Apple wants them to come out, not when there are new chips are out. It's highly selective strategy and in my opinion it's wrong and outdated, because they can no longer hide behind the fact that they have different chips to their competitors as they could do with the PPC chips.
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Yep. After a while those
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things will start to disappear because it's ridiculous to compare a new intel chip to a chip that is so Old.

So basically, they are only competing against themselves when you think about it. Rather then saying "We have the fastest machine on the planet, we can beat Intel and Amd", we say "This Core 2 Duo chip is faster than the Core Duo by 50 percent!"

Will they ever have benchmarks against AMD?
 
Mena is a quite sturdy 22 lbs. She also has a propensity to sleep on my neck at night, I'm lucky to be alive.
 
- Yonah is a variant transliteration for Jonah (יונה) in Hebrew and means dove.

- Merom Lacus, lake in the Hulah Valley of Israel

- Penryn, California, in the United States, a town of about 2,000 and home to a granite quarry

- Nehalem River
 
right.................. it's still Penryn and Nehalem and you gotta pronounce it, let alone type it... geez, but at least it's "original"
 
skone said:
right.................. it's still Penryn and Nehalem and you gotta pronounce it.
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Intel usually uses rivers or west coast locations to name their processors and chipsets.

- Napa, California

- Santa Rosa, California

- Klamath

- Deschutes River

- Coppermine River

- Willamette River
 
Multimedia said:
I'm running the Quad G5 and it's DOG SLOW. How can you think it's gonna last for heavy lifting? I'm keeping my Quad G5 for lite work. But the idea it will last 3 more years must mean you're doing very little if any hard video crushing and other processor intensive tasks.

Hell I can hose a Dual Clovertown in about 15 minutes. I dont get it. :confused: :eek:
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Yes, My Quad G5 now feels very slow as well -- not only for Video, which I would expect, but also now for Print and Flash production -- Amazing how slow it feels exporting a 64 Page children's Picture Book (full of very high res Full-Page, Raster Graphics) to High Res Press Ready PDF. I do this many times per day and dozen's of times per week.

Ready for OCTO. Please.
 
My prediction: No new Mac Pro or Leopard until September or later... I dunno, I just get the vibe there's an unspoken problem brewing...
 
Multimedia said:
Brilliant. :rolleyes:

1. Void Warranty
2. No Stoakley-Seaburg Support chipset
3. No revised cooling system according to Clovertown heat profile
4. No Leopard multi threaded support
5. They'll cost way less from Apple when they ship

No thanks. :rolleyes:
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it was a joke Multimedia..a joke :D
 
Zwhaler said:
I will be happy with the 2nd generation Meroms if Penryn won't have quad core notebooks. Now people will be asking weather or not to wait for Penryn, before Santa Rosa is even out!
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Santa Rosa's not a CPU, but regardless, people always ask the question when they catch wind of an upcoming technology. But here's the kicker: there's always going to be something new coming along and there will always be people trying to decide whether to wait. Heaven forbid they should miss out on needless (and ultimately fruitless) stress over products 6+ months from shipping.
Clive At Five said:
Woah woah woah, wait.

Does this mean the "Core" chips will be pin-to-pin compatible with "Xeon" chips?
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Not any more or less than they currently are. Packaging is a totally separate process from core architecture. Individual products in a family don't usually get their own code names, whether released for LGA775 or 771 or 479. Woodcrest Xeons are LGA771.
 
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