Intel's Penryn Chip Performance Boosts

[Konradx]

I love Intel, they are soo fast when it comes to updating, but then it makes my MB CD look slow, but i love it anyway.

They are NOW. After AMD kicked their butt Athlons, they finally woke up and realized that people werent going to buy their crappy, uneffecient P4's.

 

[Chef Medeski]

They are NOW. After AMD kicked their butt Athlons, they finally woke up and realized that people werent going to buy their crappy, uneffecient P4's.

Well there is a reason competition is the forbearer of our economy. It works.

 

[shawnce]

They are NOW. After AMD kicked their butt Athlons, they finally woke up and realized that people werent going to buy their crappy, uneffecient P4's.

Competition good? Unconceivable!

 

[jesteraver]

There is some interesting stuff coming out the next year. Just a couple of examples (don't have the links handy but they are all over the net):

- Blu-Ray burners
- High capacity NAND flash HDs 64-128GB
- 802.11n "final" spec products
- high res LED screens
- 300GB HDs
- Harware encryption of data within the HD itself
- etc.

2008 is definitely going to be an interesting year hardware-wise not just because of Penryn.

WiFi boring now its all about WiMax.

300GB HD will probably be SSD which will be great.

One thing I hope Apple starts using the Raptor 10k hard drives.

HD LED screens will rock

 

[FriedApple]

Be sweet if Intel releases them like in October when Leopard is released

I would be willing to agree with that. MacPros with Penryn and Leopard in October 07.

 

[Cojack]

Hey, I looked at Buyer's Guide and counted when the macbook is supposedly to be upgraded. And guess what?...... For that Santa Rosa thing...... The Day od Upgrade hits right on Memorial Day..... So I would keep waiting until memorial day if i were you

 

[localoid]

Hey, I looked at Buyer's Guide and counted when the macbook is supposedly to be upgraded. And guess what?...... For that Santa Rosa thing...... The Day od Upgrade hits right on Memorial Day..... So I would keep waiting until memorial day if i were you

You needed to post the same exact message in two different threads, because...???

 

[retroneo]

Nope. The main reason is IO (i.e reading from disk), which for that specific operation (opening a program) becomes the bottle neck. As hinted a couple of posts earlier, as long as we keep using mechanical disks don't expect to see much speed-up in that area.

With Santa Rosa, this won't be so much of a problem because of the flash HD accelerator.

Hopefully the Santa Rosa laptops won't be delayed because Apple now has to back port the software supporting these new features from Leopard to Tiger (because of Leopard's delay).

 

[bit density]

We need a name for what you're doing, which is whining about whining.

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