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New MacBook Pro 6,1 on Geekbench!!
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First off the only pro machines are the ones with express slots. So last gen15 and present 17". Further. All the pro software, 3rd party plugins for logic, after effects, motion, final cut and Photoshop just aren't there yet. Still a ways off. Every PRO in the biz runs tiger or leopard. And ironically, leopard with the tiger background. Lol. It won't be stable and everyone caught up until at least 10.6.5-7. Still to many crashes.
i'm no expert, but i think the following prediction would be accurate:
"no less than a week, and no more than 2 months"
This won't help this time.
We are gonna have:
- i7 on iMacs (Quad Core, 2.8ghz, Desktop CPU, 45nm, 85W) [Lynnfield]
- i7 on HP Envy 15" (Quad Core, 1,6ghz, Destkop Replacement CPU, 45nm, 45W, poor battery life, better performance) [Clarksfield]
- i7 on Macbook Pros (Dual Core, 2,60ghz, Laptop CPU, 32nm, 35W) [Arrandale]
And they are 3 completely different CPUs.
Maybe some people will buy a 2,6ghz i7 MBP thinking to get nearly the power of a 2,8ghz i7 iMac. Actually the will get way less.
The new batteries are terrific. I got the girlfriend a 13inch MBP summer past and I never see her charge the thing, she spends her time watching foreign movies streamed online so that has to be pretty battery intensive. I have an older MBP and you daren't be away from a mains socket for too long..
My prediction is that the Apple online store will go down exactly three days from now and two hours later it will be up and running with new Macbook Pros.
Heh, my unibody Macbook Pro got about 3000, so 5000 is a good speed bump. Still pales in comparison to my i7 hackintosh, which scored around 13,000 points 
My duel core iMac gets 2698. Compared to 5260, is 3 years worth of improvement good? I am no expert in these things.
this is my hope as well
I am hoping that the update happens somewhat soon as I want to get a MBP 13 inch real soon
ahh, hope this happens. only speculated getting a mbp 2 days ago!!
got till march 29th before i commit to anything.
hopefully theyupdate the 13"
I am hoping that the update happens somewhat soon as I want to get a MBP 13 inch real soon
It should be a Bloomfield or Lynnfield desktop quad core i7.
If a laptop dual core does 5000, it seems quite non-exciting/strange to me that a DESKTOP QUAD CORE does 13000.
Although the rumor doesn't necessarily give us anything concrete, at least we know that new MBP's (might?) exist.
On another note, I just realized that the MacRumors logo has a question mark on its right side! Look at that!
Holy guacamole! Wow, that's cool! It's embarrassing to say that I never noticed that before! Cool, how many other people saw this before or just now?
And Intel continues its long tradition of using extremely stupid and confusing "code" names for its products and roadmap...
Good chips, but they should just shut up in that regard...Yonah anyone?
Good chips, but they should just shut up in that regard...Yonah anyone?
Well shouldn't we all be thankful we have you around to make such determinations. What would Apple do with out you? sheesh
wo.
interesting, this could turn out an expensive month provided i have the money!
would be amazing to get one of these.. would fit perfectly with my i7 imac
interesting, this could turn out an expensive month
provided i have the money!would be amazing to get one of these.. would fit perfectly with my i7 imac
if it is real, which I think it probably is, lets hope that the actual unit doesn't have a yellow or flickering screen!
I'm a little disappointed with Intel's new mobile chip lineup. After mobile processors being nearly as fast and feature compatible as desktop counterparts for the last few years, I was expecting quad cores to be the norm. A 2.66GHz Dual Core i7 will probably be on roughly a par with a 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo on the whole.
Of course, there are the Core i7-920XM Extreme Edition chips but they're insanely expensive and have a comparatively slow clock speed.
My guesses are that the 17" MacBook Pro will have the 920XM or a faster unreleased quad core as an option.
I don't think I'd switch to a Core i7 based MacBook Pro for at least a generation. The battery life of mobile iX laptops compared to C2D laptops hasn't impressed me all to much yet. It feels a little like Intel's getting too big for its Watts again, the Core i7 mobile reminds me far too much of the P4 mobile. If AMD want a hope of survival then they should concentrate on a high performance per watt chip for laptops and try to emulate the breakthrough Intel had with their Centrino platform.
Of course, there are the Core i7-920XM Extreme Edition chips but they're insanely expensive and have a comparatively slow clock speed.
My guesses are that the 17" MacBook Pro will have the 920XM or a faster unreleased quad core as an option.
I don't think I'd switch to a Core i7 based MacBook Pro for at least a generation. The battery life of mobile iX laptops compared to C2D laptops hasn't impressed me all to much yet. It feels a little like Intel's getting too big for its Watts again, the Core i7 mobile reminds me far too much of the P4 mobile. If AMD want a hope of survival then they should concentrate on a high performance per watt chip for laptops and try to emulate the breakthrough Intel had with their Centrino platform.