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Why no QUAD penryn?
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I don't know, but a guess might be heat. Are there even laptop quads?
Not an update? Is what's available now different to yesterday morning, yes, so it's an update.
As far as I am aware the quads are desktop CPUs. I might be wrong on that but I'm fairly certain.
As others have stated its down to heat,if you had one of those in your notebook you could double it up as hot plate and cook some eggs on it (MBP anyways lots of metal=lots of heat)
Rendering for example? When you do a project outside of your home and you need to render it quickly, 4 cores will cut the time in half. Huge save!
If other companies can offer quad, why not Apple? Also, metal distributes heat better than plastic, so it could be a good thing that they are metal.
I guarantee you no one offering a quad laptop does it in an inch thick casing with any reasonable battery life.If other companies can offer quad, why not Apple? Also, metal distributes heat better than plastic, so it could be a good thing that they are metal.
If other companies can offer quad, why not Apple? Also, metal distributes heat better than plastic, so it could be a good thing that they are metal. [/QUOTE]
Not in a 1'' thin metal laptop,maybe in some 3'' thick windows plastic brick
[/QUOTE]Not in a 1'' thin metal laptop,maybe in some 3'' thick windows plastic brick
There aren't actually any true mobile quad cores out yet.
As for dual core's kicking their ass, I doubt that, for games a dual core might hold a slight edge because it's probably more overclockable but for everything else a quad core is superior. Notice that Intel are phasing our dual core extreme models.
Montevina will lead to a Penryn based mobile extreme quad core being available. I doubt that will find it's way into an MBP.
When Nehalem mobile appears next year there will be standard quad core models.
I'd guess a likely date for a quad core MBP would be this time next year. Whether Apple would ever put a quad core into the current MBP is highly unlikely. I suspect when a quad core appears in an Apple notebook it will be for a completely new product.
As for dual core's kicking their ass, I doubt that, for games a dual core might hold a slight edge because it's probably more overclockable but for everything else a quad core is superior. Notice that Intel are phasing our dual core extreme models.
Montevina will lead to a Penryn based mobile extreme quad core being available. I doubt that will find it's way into an MBP.
When Nehalem mobile appears next year there will be standard quad core models.
I'd guess a likely date for a quad core MBP would be this time next year. Whether Apple would ever put a quad core into the current MBP is highly unlikely. I suspect when a quad core appears in an Apple notebook it will be for a completely new product.
You are going to see more frequent updates from Apple I suspect. Intel has a tradition of updating their product line much faster than PowerPC (IBM) ever did. Apple will have to keep pace because companies like Dell, Gateway will update as soon as anything new from Intel is released. They have to "keep up with the Jones" so to speak.