Intel paving the way for Quad-core notebooks

[landis]

Can't imagine many iMac users will be able to pony up that much for an iMac.

Base Mac Pro/Quad iMac both @ $2800

Mac Pro is the easy decision there.

Tracer

Not necessarily. on top of the price of the mac pro you have to buy a 24" monitor, plus you have all the extra cables and it takes up more space. some people would want that power into a small enclosure because of space considerations and the lack of a need to upgrade.

i know it would be a difficult decision to make if i had to choose between the two. alot of the price of the imac is for it to be such a small simple enclosure.

 

[saltyzoo]

That is quite short sighted of you. In a couple years I would imagine it will be standard.

Not really. The short sighted part I mean.

Yeah, you're right it will probably be standard. But it's pretty typical for 90% of consumers to buy cpus that are WAY overpowered for their needs.

I'm a fairly "power" user, I do a lot of graphics, video rendering, encoding, software development, and I don't even hit a speed bump on my dual cpu's in my MBP very often.

Unless you are showing 80% cpu use constantly, you don't need more or faster cpus. I just did an "uptime" and see my load average is 0.18 right now browing the web with a couple development apps open. A quad core would bring that down to a load average of 0.10. ROTFLMAO With the extra benefits of more heat and less battery life (and probably more weight).

I wish they'd work on faster buses, RAM, and hard drives. THAT is what slows down 98% of people on laptops.

 

[emotion]

Interesting to watch the comments in this thread. It should be noted that the same things were said when we moved from single to dual core. No doubt octocore will induce similar discussions.

 

[jjahshik32]

Man if a quad mbp is out, I might be urged to sell my 2.8ghz 8 core Mac Pro and my sr mbp and pocket the rest in the bank.

 

[saltyzoo]

Man if a quad mbp is out, I might be urged to sell my 2.8ghz 8 core Mac Pro and my sr mbp and pocket the rest in the bank.

If a quad mbp comes out you may not have enough for it by selling your Pro and MBP.

 

[jjahshik32]

If a quad mbp comes out you may not have enough for it by selling your Pro and MBP.

Oh c'mon~ why would a quad core mbp cost more than today's mbp at the time its released?? The quad core mbp will cost the same as today's penryn mbp when its released~ I would guess/will be the $2499 and $2799, as the older mbp will be phased out and only quad core mbp will be available for purchase.

Either way, I'll probably end up keeping the mac pro for several years till it dies and just probably sell the mbp by then guessing $999 or something and spend the extra $$ to get the quad core! =D

 

[michaelsviews]

Yes you do. Finder runs on one core, and your app of the moment runs on the other.

Or you might be playing a tune through iTunes while doing some work. Or downloading a large file at the same time. Or your mail application is doing some downloading of email. And Spotlight is reindexing the HD. Meanwhile Time Machine is making your latest backup.

That's a pretty average working day. Time machine runs every hour, email every 5 minutes, iTunes right through, Finder is doing its little things every now and then.

You might not be running a multithreaded app, but there's a lot of things going on in a modern OS system.

Most apps are actually multithreaded, just that all the threads expect to share a single core. Multi-core aware apps are quite a new thing.

Seeing how I am still kinda new to the Apple world I thank you for pointing that out too me.

As for the winblows comments and beating OSX out, everyones entitled to there opinions, its still a free world.

 

[alphaod]

can't wait for quad mackbook pro's. A music producers dream!

I'd think the current ones are pretty good already.