Macbook Core i7??

[A7X21112]

OK so i was going to get a macbook for christmas. Do you think i should wait for the core i7? Are the Core i7's Coming to the macbook? hmmm please help much appreciated


p.s Is buyinng a macbook now smart?

lol srry for a billion ?'s

 

[Tallest Skil]

Not until Q3 2009 at the EARLIEST. They were JUST updated.

 

[nylon]

Not until Q3 2009 at the EARLIEST. They were JUST updated.

Latest info suggests Core i7 products priced to fit the Macbook range will not be available in bulk until late Q4 09. So expect a platform update Macworld 2010. Which is why I went ahead and purchased a machine now with no regrets.

 

[jav6454]

OK so i was going to get a macbook for christmas. Do you think i should wait for the core i7? Are the Core i7's Coming to the macbook? hmmm please help much appreciated


p.s Is buyinng a macbook now smart?

lol srry for a billion ?'s

Core i7, earliest this gets adopted is as early as nVidia can put out a compatible motherboard (logic board) that can support i7. This is assuming Apple still uses nVidia. However, I can see Apple waiting until Q4 '09 at a special event like this October or even MWSF 2010. I don't think Q3 '09 will see new i7 MacBooks

my $0.02

 

[tubbymac]

OK so i was going to get a macbook for christmas. Do you think i should wait for the core i7? Are the Core i7's Coming to the macbook? hmmm please help much appreciated


p.s Is buyinng a macbook now smart?

Buying a Macbook now isn't smart. Smart would have been buying it during thanksgiving week when it was on sale

However buying a Macbook now is smarter than waiting for an i7 version which probably is at least a year away, at the earliest.

 

[iMacmatician]

Latest info suggests Core i7 products priced to fit the Macbook range will not be available in bulk until late Q4 09. So expect a platform update Macworld 2010. Which is why I went ahead and purchased a machine now with no regrets.

Quad-core Nehalems (not Core i7) are scheduled for Q3/Q4 2009 depending on the source.
Dual-core Nehalems (not Core i7) are scheduled for January 2010.

I don't think Nehalem MacBooks will be quad-core.

 

[SnowLeopard2008]

Core i7 is a long way to go... Buy one now.

 

[mac10*]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_(microarchitecture)
i7 is the first of the series
why would DC or 4C nehalem be in the macs?

 

[jav6454]

Core i7, earliest this gets adopted is as early as nVidia can put out a compatible motherboard (logic board) that can support i7. This is assuming Apple still uses nVidia. However, I can see Apple waiting until Q4 '09 at a special event like this October or even MWSF 2010. I don't think Q3 '09 will see new i7 MacBooks

my $0.02

Quoting myself, I highly doubt Apple will release anything for MWSF'10 anymore. So I now guess its going to be a special event like the one in October and probably around the same time of last year, for kicks.

 

[finnschi]

i7 is just the Desktop name for the new *entercodenamehere* Arcitecture...

So Desktop i7 /Mobile probably i7 Mobile, and I doubt it will be quadcore...


just what I think (please prove me wrong on the quadcore part)

 

[kastenbrust]

The core i7 range will have the ability to be Dual Core, Quad Core or Octi Core.

 

[jav6454]

The core i7 range will have the ability to be Dual Core, Quad Core or Octi Core.

It will be dual core for mobile, but since hyper threading is being used, it will be like having Quad core in a MacBook and Snow Leo will unlock 100% of that processing power.

 

[iMacmatician]

To clarify, Core i7 is not the name of the CPU microarchitecture, or the lineup. That is the Nehalem family. "Core i7" is the name of the high-end desktop CPU codenamed "Bloomfield" that was released in Q4 2008.