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Macbooks Tuesday, May 9?
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Xeons have been available in two socket and multi-socket versions for many years. Most of the current ones are basically Pentium 4s with the additional logic for inter-socket synchronization enabled.
Woodcrest/Conroe/Merom are basically the same design, with different capabilities and power envelopes. Don't think of Woodcrest as a "server" chip per se, it's just the version of the Core 2 line that is more powerful and supports two sockets.
If Apple wants more than two cores this summer, Woodcrest is the only option.
They'll need to keep the quad PMG5 around at least another 6 months or so - until the fat binary situation is better they can't cut off the supply of the systems that run pro software best.
Woodcrest is a workstation/server processor, just like Xeon. It will be used in anything that needs two sockets - it's the cheapest multi-socket capable chip.Multimedia said:
Xeons have been available in two socket and multi-socket versions for many years. Most of the current ones are basically Pentium 4s with the additional logic for inter-socket synchronization enabled.
Woodcrest/Conroe/Merom are basically the same design, with different capabilities and power envelopes. Don't think of Woodcrest as a "server" chip per se, it's just the version of the Core 2 line that is more powerful and supports two sockets.
If Apple wants more than two cores this summer, Woodcrest is the only option.
Considering the HP/Dell/IBM will be selling quad-core Woodcrest systems in June, Apple should be able to get something out by August.Multimedia said:
They'll need to keep the quad PMG5 around at least another 6 months or so - until the fat binary situation is better they can't cut off the supply of the systems that run pro software best.
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mikea,
I get it, you dont think its going to happen today. Thanks for your input. For someone who really hopes the MacBook appears tuesday, you seem awfully intent on spreading your own... er... rumour that it wont be. Truth is, nobody knows, thats why we are reading the rumour sites. Do we really have to read the same comments from you on EVERY! page spread over 3 or 4 days?? We get it, you dont think they are coming today. Please, do like you say and just come back once it's released, perhaps the excitement of the impending release has given you "Annoying post fever".
Quad Woodcrest and G5 PowerMacs Coexisting In The Line?
So I take it that Woodcrest is "Core 2 Extreme"?
The Quad G5's have been on the Refurb page since early February. I guess it won't hurt for them to stay on there til Adobe ships CM3. Is that what you mean?
I am unfamiliar with "the fat binary situation". Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by that?
Thanks Alden. That really clarifys the whole line for us now.AidenShaw said:
So I take it that Woodcrest is "Core 2 Extreme"?
The Quad G5's have been on the Refurb page since early February. I guess it won't hurt for them to stay on there til Adobe ships CM3. Is that what you mean?
I am unfamiliar with "the fat binary situation". Would you mind elaborating on what you mean by that?
puffpuffin said:I hope Apple doesn't screw up their displays if they use a 1280x800 resolution. I was using a MacBook Pro at the Apple Store and when I changed the resolution to 1024x768, it stretched the screen instead of putting a black border around the screen. Dumb move!
I hope they do what the Sony 13.3 in widescreen notebook does - put black borders around the screen in the non-1280x800 screens. When displayed on a projector, the screen will look sharp and crisp instead of "soft" due to the stretching.
I hope Apple realises that people will be using the MacBook for presentations. I happily use my 12" iBook with its native 1024x768 display which matches my projector. I'd like to continue using my projector in its native resolution in a potential new MacBook.
The image will only be stretched on your MacBook, not on the projector, and that's only if you're doing mirroring (not spanning).
Hopefully, though, the MacBook has spanning capability, so you don't need to worry about it at all - run the MB at 1280x800 and the projector at 1024x768.
On a side note - does anyone know what the heck was in those new Apple Store displays that said "do not open until May 9" - they started this whole rumor, after all?
Hi,
Well it doesw not look like we will see the macbook today.
Maybe tommorrow? Next week?
Apple usually releases products later in the month.
Well it doesw not look like we will see the macbook today.
Maybe tommorrow? Next week?
Apple usually releases products later in the month.
Wellander said:
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Here we go again......
All we need now is a post from someone with the usual-
My best friends brother's mother's cousin's aunt's half brother's grandfather twice removeds nephew works 3 doors down from an apple store and he has lunch with someone who works there and he told me that the Macbook is definetly coming out later this month!!
New thread time, same ol' waste of time!
(Not meaning to have a go at anyone just sick of waiting for a damn Apple laptop for less than £1,400 (Every other laptop manufacturer can do it
)DJS1234 said:
Not to nitpick (Oh to Hell with it, I'm nitpicking! And I'd do it again! Muahaha!), but in that situation, if the guy told you personally it implies you know him, so instead of being your 'best friends brother's mother's cousin's aunt's half brother's grandfather twice removeds nephew', he's really just 'A guy I know that knows an Apple employee'.
Makes the chain much shorter...I'm writing this, and I have no idea why I noticed that.
Guess I'm just bored waiting for an affordable MacBook...
DJS1234 said:As am I, hence the diluted, unecessary post
Well spotted by the way!!!
Y'know, it's nice to finally be appreciated. You Mac folk are much kinder on ol' Scruff than the mean PC users I've dealt with for years, ^_^.
Oh, er <Insert MacBook Comment Here>. And Now I'm on-topic,
.Jack1991 said:
And the answer is...........
A Load of hot air!!!!
I asked Regent Street London Apple Store and they didn't know anything about mystery parcels (And they did look sincere)
There's a garden path somewhere and we've just been led right up it
So the clocks ticking until someone else has some hot gossip (Thats a load of old rubbish) about when the Mac/ibook is coming out.
Is anyone else thinking we've another Duke Nukem Forever on our hands here...
Well, the MACBooks haven't arrived yet but there is still good news!
The McBooks have finally been released!
http://tinyurl.com/jbzfr
The McBooks have finally been released!
http://tinyurl.com/jbzfr
millypede said:
Except that the Macbook is an entirely new product.
If they can hold an event for a giant white speaker with a dock soldered onto the top, they'll hold one for the MacBook.
gloss said:
LOL, too funny. You are right about that. I don't really buy the inventory story this morning on the delay. They released the MBP Hot Plates well before they had any chance of shipping them. Nothing but a cover my arse story here this morning.
KaiMac said:
Honestly, the cover story may or may not be true. Apple is very likely (and very rightly) expecting huge demand for these machines, and they want to be able to say 'GO GET 'EM!' at the event without much risk of supply bottlenecking. The target demographic for the MacBook is completely different from and much larger than the MacBook Pro's.