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Intel Details Chip Roadmap 2007-2008: Penryn and Nehalem
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Unfortunately all these great names go to waste once Intel publicly butchers them with commercial tags such as "Core 2 Duo". Yak. Why can't they have something else as zippy as "Pentium".
At least with Power PC we had the G series.
I know this is the smallest of small quibbles but the commercial names intel hands out these days really do blow goats.
Ha, I thought that, but to quote Andy Ihnatko:
"If you follow this algorithm religiously you'll still be on a Mac Plus, swapping your floppy drive every eight seconds - and that, my friends, is no way to live."
Besides, no matter what you buy, there'll always be something around the corner that you'll want more.
I completely agree (i need a dual clovertown injection soon or i will die)
Steve.. do you want my death on your hands?
What's wrong with Core 2 Duo? if you are referring to "Penryn", then you need not to worry, it's just a codename. The codename for PPC970 (AKA G5) was GP-UL.
The name "Core 2 Duo" is so stultifyingly dull and awkward that it makes me feel ill. I appreciate they can't call them "Merom" or "Penryn" in real life, because regular (non-geeky) Joes wouldn't have a fecking clue what it meant, but why can't they come up with more stuff like Itanium or Xeon.
Thats what I will be doing, from now of on with my 24" iMac...
The value of my mac will drop (year after year) anyway,
might as well ebay it after a year and buy a new one,
the cost is almost the same but you have the newest gear...
almost all the time woohoo
I am glad I didn't wait for Santa Rosa now, but bought C2D when it was released. While there is no question that Santa Rosa will bring a lot of perks, including a significantly faster FSB, access to more RAM, much better integrated graphics, etc., my C2Ds with graphics cards (iMac and MBP) will serve me very well and when I do upgrade, the difference will be radical.
In the words of Intel's manager of the digital enterprise group, these new 45nm chips will "unlock the full capability of that generation" of chips. No doubt, Santa Rosa buyers will get rocking machines, even more so than those of us with the current mighty C2D systems, and further there will be great chips just in the offing when Penryn and Nehalam hit the streets, but I do think this particular leap up to these two 45nm chips and their related chipsets is going to be one of the larger leaps in development, and perhaps a good time to upgrade. We'll see when we get there.
In the words of Intel's manager of the digital enterprise group, these new 45nm chips will "unlock the full capability of that generation" of chips. No doubt, Santa Rosa buyers will get rocking machines, even more so than those of us with the current mighty C2D systems, and further there will be great chips just in the offing when Penryn and Nehalam hit the streets, but I do think this particular leap up to these two 45nm chips and their related chipsets is going to be one of the larger leaps in development, and perhaps a good time to upgrade. We'll see when we get there.
Looks promising, i hope the iMacs get Quad-Core love. If they do, i'll get one next year and move away from the notebook market. Hopefully 10.5.3 would be out or something, as well as iLife 08.
Until then its just me and my MBP, especially now that i've just confirmed my HE 3yr extended warranty.
Until then its just me and my MBP, especially now that i've just confirmed my HE 3yr extended warranty.
Well, only thing in "Core 2 Duo" that I find lacking is the "Duo" (and "Solo"). They could use something else instead. But other than that, it's OK.
I remember when AMD released original Athlons. People thought the name was stupid. Not so anymore. When they released the Opteron? Same thing. But people got used to it, and it doesn't sound stupid anymore.
And, when you really think about it, name is next to meaningless. "Itanium" might sound cool, but it didn't save the processor from flopping hard.
Agreed there, Core Duo was bad, but less awkward than Core 2 Duo.
I dislike AMD's names too, I think they sound too star trek and bad science-fiction-esque.
A name is never going to make or break the success of the processor, but Itanium does sound very smart. It's clean, electric, futuristic, relates to Titanium of course, which always seems to carry kudos in the tech world. IMO Itanium is exactly the sort of name a processor should have. Again, The name "Xeon" is from the same stable.
In comparison, "Core 2 Duo" does blow goats!
Also, the Itanium range is .
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NAB is the place you would most like to introduce a pro end computer during the year, and its coming up right as the current Mac Pros are looking a bit dated. Do the math!
Mac Pro sounds about right. Back before they were launched someone on here suggested they officially call it the Macintosh Pro, which has a nice ring to it as well.
In contrast, the names MacBook and Macbook Pro are hideous. Everyone is used to them now, but there's no doubting they're bad names.
All the money, innovation and intelligence at Apple (and Intel for that matter with Core Duo) and they come up with those names. Scarcely believable really.
I guess we should be glad they didn't try to mash MacBook and Core Duo together (a la PowerBook and PowerMac). I dread to think what we would have then!
Coulda been the iiBook. "Yeah dude, I'm waiting for Penryn TwoBooks."
MacBook's not that bad a name, I think.
MacBook's not that bad a name, I think.
Need A Floor In Las Vegas For NAB April 13-19
I have a ticket to the Apple Event. But I'm still looking for a buddy to let me sleep on their floor in Las Vegas. Anyone here that's going have room for me?
Surely Sony can find some room for you. You must be responsible for at least 10% of their sales on the HC7, a fantastic camera for the money by the way.
Fair enough. I have very little knowledge on those chips so will take your word for it.
No doubting Itanium is a cool name though. Power 6 is pretty smart too, although lacking in the originality stakes.
If you want quad cores now , you can do it. Not from Apple.
If you can justify the price, swap out the duals for the quads.
If you can justify the price, swap out the duals for the quads.
Is is me or is there something absurdly ironic about 'sitting it out for another year' on an old 1.x Ghz Mac because your waiting for the 3.3 ghz variant as today's 2.3 ghz variant isn't powerful enough'??
If the people writing here actually needed a new mac they would go out and buy one, but this is the very paradox of owning a mac. They last a long time and so while we drool over the extra whistles and bells, few of us actually need to upgrade. Start up might be slightly quicker, we will get a slightly larger hard drive, and a built-in iSight, but how do we sell this to 'er indoors to let us part with £1500 or so? We don't, so we keep dreaming and half wanting our current mac that we love so dearly to just not be able to boot one day like a cheap PC or for it to get stolen or fall off a desk and die, but this just doesn't happen.
Does anyone still miss the PowerPC ?
No, I'm typing on a 12" PowerBook right now.