Speaking of RAM: Intel is rumored to have have something they'll say about DDR3 and "Bearlake" on on Wednesday... 
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'Santa Rosa' Shipping from Intel Next Month (May)
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The rest of the system, including the GPU, etc. Intel's FSB has run faster than the RAM clock speed for years now. And technically the RAM isn't really clocked at that speed anyway (transfers twice per clock cycle).
Judgement Day. When does Apple usually announce these kinds of things? Daddy wants a brand new Mac.
The iMacs and Mac minis are about a month and a half to two months older then the MacBooks and MacBook Pros. They will probably get updated first then, soon after, the notebooks.
Unless they release them all at WWDC I would think iMac and Mac mini released before WWDC, LED MacBook Pro at WWDC, and Macbook shortly after. iPhone and later the new iPod should take us to the 10.5 ship date. M2C aka from my butt.
Releasing new MacBooks a day before ANY company can officially unveil their Santa Rosa-based laptops? Wouldn't make much sense. The official launch data for Santa Rosa even is May 9th, so Apple couldn't do an official announcement before that even if they wanted to.
I take it Apple will be using Centrino Pro and not Centrino Duo, as Duo doesn't have the Virtualisation stuff does it?
Most of Intel's (current) mobile Core Duo CPUs do have VT support.
In fact, there are very few mobile Intel CD or C2D CPUs that do not support Intel's Virtualization Technology. The T5500 and T2300E are the only one I can think of (that do not). Both are low-end CPUs. There may be some other low-spec "OEM" CD or C2D Intel mobile CPUs that do not, but Apple hasn't used such (to date, at least.)
Intel's tool will tell you for certain. See, for example: mobile Core Duo CPUs with Virtualization Technology
So far I believe that Apple haven't taken the whole centrino platform but rather customised it themselves as they see fit - the wireless solution that they chose for the last round of MBP/MBs was not the centrino one for example. Hopefully apple will add H264 hardware decoding as it appears this is lacking. In addition it seems that all this fancy Robson caching stuff is design for vista use only - we'll have to hope for implementation in leopard or an update (I expect the microsoft lot will crow one way or the other).
Didn't Apple make a statement a while ago that they were going to add this to all models.
As a side note regarding one of Santa Rosa's features...
I see it's only $50 (US) to add a 1G Intel Turbo Memory (aka, Robson cache) on Lenovo's new T61 notebook. That sounds like really decent bang for the buck. Hopefully, this inexpensive technology will turn up on most or perhaps all of Apple's new offerings. Err, along with the drivers for it, of course!
I see it's only $50 (US) to add a 1G Intel Turbo Memory (aka, Robson cache) on Lenovo's new T61 notebook. That sounds like really decent bang for the buck. Hopefully, this inexpensive technology will turn up on most or perhaps all of Apple's new offerings. Err, along with the drivers for it, of course!