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Intel's Penryn Chip Performance Boosts
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Every week? Seems most around here are b*tching for Apple to update their product lines despite that fact that there is no new tech from intel for apple to use until May!
That's nice to see though we'll be looking at Penryn based Macs with mobile variants vs. the current Merom Core 2 Duos and not the Conroe extremes. Though they did measure desktop to desktop, so it's nice to see that the Penryn outperformed the high end Conroe that well. I wonder if we will see 3.0+ghz versions of the mobile Penryns in MBs, MBPs, and iMacs...
I totally agree. It seems like everyone on this board wants a new feature/faster thing every week. If that happens, they'll just turn around and complain that the computer they just got a week ago is already obsolete. Very hypocritical. Up until about April of last year, my dad used a G3 iMac he got in 1998. It served him fine until it started slowing down too much. But 1998-2006 is a long time in computer terms. If he can handle it, pretty much anyone can.
Every now and then when I hear about a new piece of high technology, which is really just an incremental upgrade, it just makes me marvel that any of this stuff even works at all! Can you imagine how small these tiny little parts are that are doing these calculations? And isn't it amazing that these calculations which do everything, like making your printer shoot ink out in a recognizable pattern, are really all done by unfathomably small charged electrons flying around in tiny little channels of material etched into incomprehensibly complex patterns?
The Register has an interesting article about IBM developing a 3D kind of processor. Here's the link: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/04/12/ibm_chip_stack_technique/
Pretty interesting.
Pretty interesting.
It's too late...the surge of high expectations have already started. Once the Macrumors main page says:
We can be assured that come December, the lack of Penryn based Macs with be used by the whiners to indicate the "latest Apple betrayal".
Seems like PPC is still a viable option, would hate to think that Apple wouldn't have a small team keeping the dream alive.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6124451.html
can you give me some reasons why you feel this way???...im just wondering and if it'll take a while, could you just send me a few links...i've done a little bit of reading on the architectures, but am wondering your take.
thanx
P6 is a beast, but it's an impressive beast. I think it would truly be overkill even for pro machines. it's got everything but the kitchen sink.
I was made painfully aware last year we don't have a relationship with apple anymore, that's pretty obvious by the current lineup.
However, if apple could get P6 into a portable, I might be impressed.
P6 is a beast, but it's an impressive beast. I think it would truly be overkill even for pro machines. it's got everything but the kitchen sink.
I was made painfully aware last year we don't have a relationship with apple anymore, that's pretty obvious by the current lineup.
However, if apple could get P6 into a portable, I might be impressed.
I think, just as Steve-O had the secret Intel division up and running, he would have the alternate PPC division still running. I wonder how difficult/profitable it would be to offer Intel and PPC. FOr the short term I highly, highly doubt we'll see a peep of PPC but as time goes by and Moore's Law starts taking a hit on the Intel side we may see PPC pop by for another visit.
Just my $.02.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/intel-talks-up-multi-core-larrabee-processor-powerline-ethernet/
Penryn are already old news, larabee is where it's at.
Penryn are already old news, larabee is where it's at.
but.. but... Apple was crazy to go with Intel instead of AMD!!!
I think apple looks for vendors by seeing which of them kisses apple's butt the best
Well seeing how the mac mini might not ever see the C2D, Apple could very well just skip it!
Improvements in hard drive speed are being driven by Solid State Drives. Once price comes down and businesses show a need, then you'll see production ramp up.I wish we could see these kinds of speed improvements in the HDs & CD/DVD players.
But, I always love a faster Mac!
Larabee is not a successor to the Core architecture processors anyway. It does something quite different.
Stephen Hawking grew an "S" on his name?
When did Stephen Hawking grow that "S" on the end of his last name?
I believe its called progression
We will level out when the chips are so powerful they take over and zap us all into a substance very much like 2000 degree oxtail soup (according to Stephen Hawkings anyway)
When did Stephen Hawking grow that "S" on the end of his last name?