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Ivy Bridge Processors Launching as Early as April 8?

I'd really love a TRUE 13" MBP

1440x900 resolution + AntiGlare screen. The entire lineup should have this by now (the AntiGlare I mean).

13"MBA Ultimate should fade into the 13" Air Pro ... give it a discrete graphics unit ... bail on Intel since AMD is gaining on "performance per watt" along with having descrete gpu on die ... something that Intel is dropping in (the new chips announced STILL only support OpenCL 1.1).

I don't miss the Optical Disk in my Air as much as I did for the first 3 mths of having it ... there was an initial shock!

I still do not believe that Intel's HD 3000/4000 is up to snuff for OSX.
 
Say the Ivy Bridge processors get released on April 8th 2012... how long will it take for Apple to update the Macbook Pro line with them in?
 
Liquinn said:
Say the Ivy Bridge processors get released on April 8th 2012... how long will it take for Apple to update the Macbook Pro line with them in?
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I'm sure Apple has a deal in place that gives them the processors ahead of time so they can release new laptops the day the processors are released to the public.

So my guess is April 8th if that was true.

I'll be first in line to get a MBPro 15" if it has these and the Retina Display...game over.
 
Eidorian said:
You will probably see a lot of Ivy Bridge based hardware at CES. April means retail availability and give or two a few weeks from OEM vendors.

Ivy Bridge is going to launch with Core i5 and i7 models first on the desktop and the same with notebooks. Though the notebook launch leans more toward quad cores.

Now if we could learn some more about Trinity.
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Did they forget the Core i3 models :confused:
 
Ryth said:
I'm sure Apple has a deal in place that gives them the processors ahead of time so they can release new laptops the day the processors are released to the public.

So my guess is April 8th if that was true.

I'll be first in line to get a MBPro 15" if it has these and the Retina Display...game over.
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Nice, not long to go now then if this is true. :p
 
My 15.4 MBP vintage 2007 is ready to be traded in for a new model and this will be all the reason I need.
Hopefully ... a happy birthday present for me in May. :D
 
Wonder if the new MBA's will have an option for 8GB RAM? My 2007 whitebook is maxed out at 4GB, and I run out of RAM all the time (Chrome is the worse offender.)

I'd like to consider getting a MBA, but I can't plunk down the cash for a new computer that has no improvement whatsoever on the worst bottleneck of my 4 year old whitebook.

Going from a 500 GB almost full HDD down to a 128GB SSD would be a bit painful too, but fortunately I no longer run many VMs or do much video editing otherwise 128GB would be just too painful.

Dream machine:

:apple:MBA
:apple:8GB ram
:apple:Quadcore (almost certainly not in 2012)
:apple:Decent SSD (128 or 258 GB - I can live with either)
:apple:USB3
:apple:Thunderbolt external video card enclosure (will we see a good one in 2012?)

Compared to my 2007 MB, this will have half the weight, twice the processor power, twice the battery life, twice the RAM, superb connectivity, and half the drive space. Can't win them all.
 
Yvan256 said:
Hopefully the next Mac mini lineup will still include at least one model with a dedicated GPU.
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Depends because the Ivy Bridge CPU pretty much closes the gap between the low end dedicated GPU and what Intel has to offer - Ivy bridge includes OpenCL 1.1/OpenGL 3.x and DirectX support along with a massive boost in performance it will be interesting to see whether it is worth Apple's while offering one with a discrete GPU:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4830/intels-ivy-bridge-architecture-exposed/5
 
Eidorian said:
I still wonder why no one has really tapped into the 15" thin notebook without an optical drive.

Now everyone is rumored to make a 15" ultrabook. :rolleyes:
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Everyone was waiting on Apple to make their move first. Isn't that how it always goes?
 
ChrisTX said:
Everyone was waiting on Apple to make their move first. Isn't that how it always goes?
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There are plenty of thin, performance notebooks with slot optical drives that fall into the hot and loud category. The M11x is a chunky outlier.

Either Apple is going to finally release a 15" MacBook Air or someone is going to get an ultrabook out in that size. I am just perplexed as to why no one has done it before.
 
deconstruct60 said:
Is the laptop so crappy that you can't do productive work on it anymore? Are you loosing money because laptop isn't fast enough?

Or is this "it works well enough, but I wish it was smoother/faster/better" situation?


Is the laptop so old can't get security updates or run some new/updated applications that you need?




If loosing money or large amounts of time then it is probably not worth waiting. If blocked on apps and/or security updates ... again probably not worth waiting.

If just want some "faster" because that is "nicer" then it is a toss up. Depend on just how sloooooow your current laptop is and how long you typically spend between upgrades.

If you usually buy something every 2 years. Then just buy. That will just get you closer to the update 2 years after that (which will be better than what Apple releases in May/June. )

If you usually buy something every 4-5 years then waiting is an option if can minimize laptop usage.





You only need to ask yourself the right questions. But it is true that only you know the answers.

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Fuel cell based on what fuel ?????

Most of those are not weight/Watt competitive with batteries. They can generally be refilled faster, but that isn't what counts with a portable, weight limited device.
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thanks , well my laptop is from about 4-5 year hp and most of the time the day-day work is slow ..... (skype , photos , internet ) , I aren´t loosing money because I am an student , but I am loosing time when I do homeworks ,or day-day activities.


yes it have some apps blocked (photoshop , dreamweaver , flash , ect ) and regular security updates, also I cant use it for casual gaming .

I think that I will update it in 3-4 years ( maybe if I am lucky in 2 and a half years), if is a redising upcommig I will avoid the 1st gen beacuse of bugs .

now that I gave you more info ,what do you recommend me ?
 
So, speculation aside...

What do these new Ivy Bridge Processors mean for:

speed?
battery life?
 
Prom1 said:
I'd really love a TRUE 13" MBP

1440x900 resolution + AntiGlare screen. The entire lineup should have this by now (the AntiGlare I mean).

13"MBA Ultimate should fade into the 13" Air Pro ... give it a discrete graphics unit ... bail on Intel since AMD is gaining on "performance per watt" along with having descrete gpu on die ... something that Intel is dropping in (the new chips announced STILL only support OpenCL 1.1).

I don't miss the Optical Disk in my Air as much as I did for the first 3 mths of having it ... there was an initial shock!

I still do not believe that Intel's HD 3000/4000 is up to snuff for OSX.
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With AMD you would be getting worse CPU performance.
 
Bring on USB 3!

I bought the last G4 model with USB 1 before the G5 and USB 2 made it into the lineup.

USB 2 sucks on Macs with the highest real world speed of about 32 MB/s with average in the low 20s/MB/s

While thunderbolt is great, its going to be like FireWire demanding a price premium for years to come, like how a drive with FireWire is still costs $30-50 more than the same drive with USB 2 today.

I'm either getting a refurb 2011 i7 iMac then upgrading or holding off till April. I wouldn't dare pay full price for the i7 IMac now. Also considering a i5 quad hackintosh for $400 to hold me over till the upgrade.
 
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