Will new MacBooks be Core i7?

[gkarris]

Just a question - will all the MacBooks (the regulars and the Pros) have the new i7 processor?

Thanks...

 

[Tallest Skil]

Yeah, that's next year. Nehalem mobile chips won't be out until Q3 2009.

 

[gkarris]

So just faster chips, chipsets, graphics, and of course, cool new designs?

(mouth starts watering...)
😀

 

[11800506]

So just faster chips, chipsets, graphics, and of course, cool new designs?

(mouth starts watering...)
😀

Well... not quite. Mobile Core i7 chips won't come out until Q3 2009 so the new Macbooks which will be released on 10/14 will likely only feature slightly faster Penryn chips, so nothing radical in the processor regard.

 

[iMacmatician]

Q4 2009 for quad-core.
January 2010 for dual-core.

We'll see a Q1 2009 speed bump (+133 MHz) and a cheap quad-core (2.0 GHz $348), and maybe another CPU update like that at mid-2009 or so.

 

[alphaod]

No actually it'd be a G5.

 

[otis123]

intel and apple have a close/weird relationship, i could see intel mass producing the i7 for apple already, i mean they did do a custom c2d just for the macbook air, i mean a total redesign on a chip just for 1 company, and 1 laptop? so them giving apple a early version of the i7 isnt out of the question.

 

[polaris20]

intel and apple have a close/weird relationship, i could see intel mass producing the i7 for apple already, i mean they did do a custom c2d just for the macbook air, i mean a total redesign on a chip just for 1 company, and 1 laptop? so them giving apple a early version of the i7 isnt out of the question.

Not a year in advance they wouldn't.

 

[jackiecanev2]

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For the air, they crammed a existing merom-like processor into a montevina/penryn 45nm shell (that they'd been working on for years) 6 months ahead if schedule. That is a far cry from brand new chip/chipset technology (have you seen the nehalem list) 1+ years in advance, exclusive to apple, in mass quantity? I don't think so.



If intel had if to release now, we'd all be getting nehalem notebooks, and not whatever is coming in the interim.