Hi All
I am soon to be buying my first ever mac mainly to try the OS out because frankly it looks awesome! And because i need a lappy for collage and with the event of boot-camp it seemed the sensible thing to do
I am looking to investing in a nice 17" MPB. As i will get a really nice HE discount. But i am getting worried and thinking i should wait.
Mainly for leopard and i have also been reading a lot about the next revisions of the macbook pro namely the "Santa Rosa" Core which will bring 800FSB up to 4GIG of RAM and a speed boost up to 2.4Ghz and possible 2.66Ghz model.
And also the fact the chipset will be updated to true 64bit as the chipset at the moment only has 32bit addressing. (does this mean if i went with the current model i could not run leopard at full 64bit?)
And then there is the other big news...
NY Times reports on an advance from Intel which is said to represent "the most significant change in the materials used to manufacture silicon chips since Intel pioneered the modern integrated-circuit transistor more than four decades ago."
Intel is moving toward the 45nm manufacturing process and demoed45-nm Penryn chips during a press briefing. The Penryn chips are said to be available "before the end of the year."
Quote:
Penryn is essentially a shrink of the Core 2 Duo chips, with a few extras like the SSE4 instructions. It's being introduced along with the new manufacturing technology, the "tick" of Intel's plans. Then next year, when the 45-nanometer manufacturing technology is mature, Intel will introduce a new chip microarchitecture code-named Nehalem--the "tock"--with more significant changes to the chip design.
The advances in the manufacturing process include the use of new insulators and new metallic alloy materials in transistor components. Current Intel chips utilize a 65-nm manufacturing process. As always, the move to the smaller processes tends to improve performance and decrease power consumption.
The Penryn family of chips will deliver new laptop dual-core microprocessor, a desktop dual-core and a quad-core, and server dual and quad-core processors.
Apple will, of course, benefit from these new processors when they are released, and Intel has stated that the current prototypes are already booting Mac OS X -- indicating that Apple is already involved in early testing.
These new chips will allow speeds from 2.4 upwords of 3.2Ghz
Its really eating away at me as there is no concrete evidence for when OSX 10.5 will be released and could be as late as June. I just don't wont to be disappointed with my purchase as this is my first laptop away from my windows vista rig. And my first shot at OSX
Please feel free to share your views on this little news article. There are a few questions in there from me but the discussion is much more valuable
Thanks
XD-3
I am soon to be buying my first ever mac mainly to try the OS out because frankly it looks awesome! And because i need a lappy for collage and with the event of boot-camp it seemed the sensible thing to do
I am looking to investing in a nice 17" MPB. As i will get a really nice HE discount. But i am getting worried and thinking i should wait.
Mainly for leopard and i have also been reading a lot about the next revisions of the macbook pro namely the "Santa Rosa" Core which will bring 800FSB up to 4GIG of RAM and a speed boost up to 2.4Ghz and possible 2.66Ghz model.
And also the fact the chipset will be updated to true 64bit as the chipset at the moment only has 32bit addressing. (does this mean if i went with the current model i could not run leopard at full 64bit?)
And then there is the other big news...
NY Times reports on an advance from Intel which is said to represent "the most significant change in the materials used to manufacture silicon chips since Intel pioneered the modern integrated-circuit transistor more than four decades ago."
Intel is moving toward the 45nm manufacturing process and demoed45-nm Penryn chips during a press briefing. The Penryn chips are said to be available "before the end of the year."
Quote:
Penryn is essentially a shrink of the Core 2 Duo chips, with a few extras like the SSE4 instructions. It's being introduced along with the new manufacturing technology, the "tick" of Intel's plans. Then next year, when the 45-nanometer manufacturing technology is mature, Intel will introduce a new chip microarchitecture code-named Nehalem--the "tock"--with more significant changes to the chip design.
The advances in the manufacturing process include the use of new insulators and new metallic alloy materials in transistor components. Current Intel chips utilize a 65-nm manufacturing process. As always, the move to the smaller processes tends to improve performance and decrease power consumption.
The Penryn family of chips will deliver new laptop dual-core microprocessor, a desktop dual-core and a quad-core, and server dual and quad-core processors.
Apple will, of course, benefit from these new processors when they are released, and Intel has stated that the current prototypes are already booting Mac OS X -- indicating that Apple is already involved in early testing.
These new chips will allow speeds from 2.4 upwords of 3.2Ghz
Its really eating away at me as there is no concrete evidence for when OSX 10.5 will be released and could be as late as June. I just don't wont to be disappointed with my purchase as this is my first laptop away from my windows vista rig. And my first shot at OSX
Please feel free to share your views on this little news article. There are a few questions in there from me but the discussion is much more valuable
Thanks
XD-3
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