I'd like to know as well, are they dual or quad core ?
I dont see why many people are holding out for MacBook Pros. The penryn is likely to be a drop-in replacement and the performance increase isn't really going to be worth waiting for. 8-10% tops clock for clock and only in certain conditions.
Penryn is only really of interest to overclockers, and maybe those waiting for a quad core laptop.
I dont see why many people are holding out for MacBook Pros. The penryn is likely to be a drop-in replacement and the performance increase isn't really going to be worth waiting for. 8-10% tops clock for clock and only in certain conditions.
Penryn is only really of interest to overclockers, and maybe those waiting for a quad core laptop.
To be fair penryn offers a industry first radix-16 divider ...
But you are right though that the bggest appeal is for us overclockers- I can't wait to drop a QX9770 into my rig and OC it to 4.7GHz on air
Penryn doesn't even really seem all that impressive, a bit less power consumption, a bit cooler, but supposedly not much more powerful at least real world. I'm just hoping the prices of the current macbooks take a dive so I can buy one sooner.
It will be a sad sad sad day when my 2.4 SR MBP 4GB RAM isnt the fastest thing out there anymore...![]()
Uh... see sig. Sorry, friend.
Time to roll out the new 'Ultra Thins...'
Penryn doesn't even really seem all that impressive, a bit less power consumption, a bit cooler, but supposedly not much more powerful at least real world. I'm just hoping the prices of the current macbooks take a dive so I can buy one sooner.
ut you are right though that the bggest appeal is for us overclockers- I can't wait to drop a QX9770 into my rig and OC it to 4.7GHz on air
I'd say there is a good chance of both.
I would not be surprised to find out apple and intel have been working together to "spin" the new Peryn line to say something like, Peryn, from sub-notebook to 17" books, we have you covered.
Me = new Penryn MBP in Jan!!!!!!!!!
Dual. The quads aren't due out till 2H'08.
I'm waiting for the updates to convert to mac so I'm pretty much the biggest newbie ever, what's 2H'08?
I've been wondering for the longest time why we are only speculating about the release of a macbook pro with the new mobile penryns, when I always thought the iMacs and MacBook Pros used the same line of processor and with Penryn they might be updated around the same time as each other. I figure it's been a good amount of time since the iMac was updated, especially considering the previous update gap, and the last update didn't deliver so well on the processor power. To me, now seems like a great time to put Penryn in both computers.
SSE4 doesn't seem impressive to you? A more power efficient and smaller chip architecture isn't impressive to you?
No its not that impressive, great it will run a few degrees cooler but good luck noticing 10 percent increase in speed (if that). The technology is impressive but in reality its not going to be a huge leap or even a small one really. I certainly won't be paying a premium for one I will gladly take a discount though on the current macbooks.
13" Penryn based Macbook Pro, please Mr. Jobs. Quick as you like, don't spare the horses.![]()