right.................. it's still Penryn and Nehalem and you gotta pronounce it, let alone type it... geez, but at least it's "original"
I get it. Buy a new Mac every year. Thanks.
Ha, I thought that, but to quote Andy Ihnatko: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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All our wishes and desires..
We will see at NAB.
Can't they pick processor names that are abit more, how you say... normal?
What's wrong with Core 2 Duo?
I get it. Buy a new Mac every year. Thanks.
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.
You know what else sounded stupid at first?
Macintosh.
Well, only thing in "Core 2 Duo" that I find lacking is the "Duo" (and "Solo"). They could use something else instead.
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.
My prediction: No new Mac Pro until September or later... I dunno, I just get the vibe there's an unspoken problem brewing...
As well as the Mac Pro, MacBook Pro and MacBook.
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?N
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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!
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?
Also, the Itanium range is .
Itanium is doomed. Yes, new Itanium is better than the old one, but it's still doomed. It was at least marginally relevant back when x86 was still 32bit. But even then it was far from success. When AMD released Opteron, Itaniums fate was sealed. And IBM is about to release POWER6, which seems like it will totally mop the floor with Itanium...
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'??
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Does anyone still miss the PowerPC ?![]()