Intel Nehalem Processor Details Leaked

[diamond.g]

True, but that's not what I asked. I was asking about the new system chipset that's the companion to Nehalem.

Yeah, Capella is the platform name, but I haven't been able to find what the chipset name will be. It will be different because Nehalem won't support the existing FSB arch.

 

[hugodrax]

That was hilarious! The day that Apple announced the move to Intel (August 6, 2005) I knew that it was a great move! I can't believe the skeptics and their comments. However, I also was planning on building my own PC at the time and had an idea of the CoreDuo planned later that year. (which brought the smaller pipeline and TDP improvements)

..... Actually, now that I think about it..... that's probably why I switched to Mac... well I bought a iMac G5 6 months before the transition to Intel... glad I missed CoreDuo and I'm happy I'm at a MBP Core2Duo. Nehalem here I come!!

I would have never switched myself. When the Mac Pro Intel system came out I switched the office machines and my home machine. So much for the doomsayers.

 

[warensn]

To wait or not to wait. That is the question.

I see many comments here about whether waiting for Nehalem is a good thing or not. Look, an 8 core machine will be plenty fast for the foreseeable future. Besides, hard drives are the limiting factor. A year or two down the line, just plug in the latest solid state terabyte card and you are good to go.
Another thing to think about is how long it takes software to catch up with hardware. How long will it take for software to commonly use all 8 cores and utilize all the SSE4 instruction set.
The point is that your new Mac pro may get faster in the next year. Do you really want to wait 2 more years until the software catches up with the hardware upgrades for Nehalem?

 

[jjahshik32]

I see many comments here about whether waiting for Nehalem is a good thing or not. Look, an 8 core machine will be plenty fast for the foreseeable future. Besides, hard drives are the limiting factor. A year or two down the line, just plug in the latest solid state terabyte card and you are good to go.
Another thing to think about is how long it takes software to catch up with hardware. How long will it take for software to commonly use all 8 cores and utilize all the SSE4 instruction set.
The point is that your new Mac pro may get faster in the next year. Do you really want to wait 2 more years until the software catches up with the hardware upgrades for Nehalem?

Excellent point, honestly I'm not waiting for something like nehalem or anything else, I am too just waiting for the ssd in 3.5" and 2.5" to come down close in price in the $200-$300 range.

Honestly I used to own the 2.66ghz mac pro 4 core and I sold it a while back thinking I didnt need it but then the 2.4ghz mbp wasnt cutting it for me as for main usage. So just when the 8 core harpertowns were released I plunged and bought the 2.8 8 core model and the only thing I'm craving for is the ssd drives. Even the 2.66ghz mac pro 4 core running an ssd drive.. man that would be sweeet.