Macbook updates on Sep. 9?

[iMacmatician]

Expect to see new macbooks in the first quarter of next year.

Which is completely against every rumor we've heard. (Not just a month difference like September-October.)

And at any cost.... the specs would be same for an upgrade now or in Jan since the montevina is the last update intel is providing its current Core 2 lineup! After this... its gonna be Nehalem in mid 2009!

Well I've got bad news for you.

The latest signs point to regular desktop and all mobile variants of Nehalem coming in Q4 2009 for quad-core and January 2010 for dual-core. It's also hinted that Sandy Bridge may be delayed for "sufficient Nehalem lifecycle." Plus, I think that these Nehalems are on 45 nm rather than 32 nm (which is first expected around that time) because otherwise I think Intel would have made a big deal out of "32 nm." So that would mean non-high-end Nehalems may not get 32 nm until closer to mid-2010.

We may see one more 133 MHz Montevina speed bump in mid-2009 before Nehalem.

 

[neiltc13]

Apple would never release a new MacBook without being able to claim that it's significantly faster than the old one. We're waiting for Intel here, not Apple.