Beserker - Merom in your mini for crunching?

Unknown whether the Mini would need it, but it's been reported that most Yonah-using laptops will take a Merom with no more than a BIOS update.
Wish they were appearing sooner though :eek:
 
I'll not have this Dell-slating. Nothing at all wrong with their laptops. Mine's been lugged around the world, dropped most of the way down an up escalator at JFK airport, and generally abused, and it's still going after three years with only a replaced keyboard.

My Dual Xeon of theirs, three and a half years old, is also still going. It struggles at DC stuff these days, but then it's using Prestonias (which were absolutely brand new at the time - I had to wait a month for them to make the hardware :eek: ).

So yes, for overclocking, you can slate them all you like, and up to a point, you can slate them for noise too, but for reliability, I don't think so. Also, try overclocking a Mac. :p

Oh, and my next laptop? Yup, it'll be a Dell, but I'm waiting for Merom first.
 
Smashing an Apple would bring a tear to anyone's eye though. :p

Berserker said:
Yup, it'll be a Dell, but I'm waiting for Merom first.
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You aren't the only one, on (probably) both counts.

Berserker said:
Also, try overclocking a Mac. :p
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But they've got excellent 0-poor times already though? :D

Back on topic, my understanding was Merom had the same thermal characteristics, you just got (Intel's claim) "20% more performance" to boot.
 
Would still be sacriledge to pop the lid on my Mac Mini to fit one. The tops crack like hell unless you have the right tools to lift the wrap-around cases off them to get inside.

I'm more concerned with getting the right software for them right now. The uptake still seems to be slow and using Rosetta is the cheap (and wasteful) way out.
 
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