Macbook pro Quad-Core

plain · Post by **plain** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:47 am

Does anyone show a link saying when they expect this thing to come out? I saw a link saying the Core 2 Duo ones are due soon.

I'd like to see some kind of article on ETA.

kabuki · Post by **kabuki** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:52 am

http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2060

Patience, Grasshopper. Patience.

(I'm right there with you.)

jamester · Post by **jamester** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:12 am

A Quad-Core??? :-0

I don't think we'll be seeing that in a notebook anytime soon...

aliasA · Post by **aliasA** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:33 am

i really dont see this coming relatively soon. there is money to be made as it stands. they gain nothing my putting quads in the laptops right now.

plain · Post by **plain** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:08 pm

i was thinking about the quad core chips...just one

not 2 X Core Duo like the mac pros

subterFUSE · Post by **subterFUSE** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:10 pm

4 Cores, in a laptop?

Holy melted laptop cases, Batman.

aliasA · Post by **aliasA** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:37 am

we really are so far from this its not even funny. Think about how long it takes for laptops to catch up with desktops. We will be lucky to see quad cores in mac pro's by the end of the year. Do you have any idea how long it will take to make its way into a laptop.

Plus, when it comes to laptops, you cant just swap stuff here and there. There are a mllion factors, the biggest one being HEAT.

plain · Post by **plain** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:11 am

yea your right i cant wait that long....

i was being hopeful and thinking next february for quad core macbooks but it'd probably unlikely

AADJON · Post by **AADJON** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:50 pm

I am also waiting for that core 2 duo. My music teacher ask me to wait cause it is comming by the end of september 2006. I checked with apple yesterday they could not tell me anything. I will buy one as soon as they go out.

robin · Post by **robin** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 3:12 pm

jamester wrote:A Quad-Core??? :-0

I don't think we'll be seeing that in a notebook anytime soon...

I suspect it's a year off. They need the Santa Rosa and the die shrink (I forget the codename but it has 6MB cahce and is manufactured to the 45nm scale) for this to realistically happen.

Core 2 Duo is dual core like the Core Duo. It's the full "Core" architecture though not a bumped up pentium M this time though.

jamester · Post by **jamester** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 5:31 pm

The Core 2's are busitng out right now. Last nite I went through the big notebook manufacturers (Dell/HP/Sony/Asus/Acer/Prostar/etc... they all had Core 2's available. Not Apple though.

By March the FSB is to be increased to 800mhz. This is what I'm trying to hold out for, as well as for re-designs/refreshes of existing notebook designs. Right now they're just replacing the chips, but eventually they need to change their hardware designs to accomodate more RAM and such...

good times!

subterFUSE · Post by **subterFUSE** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:05 pm

jamester wrote:The Core 2's are busitng out right now. Last nite I went through the big notebook manufacturers (Dell/HP/Sony/Asus/Acer/Prostar/etc... they all had Core 2's available. Not Apple though.

By March the FSB is to be increased to 800mhz. This is what I'm trying to hold out for, as well as for re-designs/refreshes of existing notebook designs. Right now they're just replacing the chips, but eventually they need to change their hardware designs to accomodate more RAM and such...

good times!

PC has had Core 2 Duo for a while now.

Looks like Apple is lagging behind again, as usual.

I couldn't help it. Just HAD to get that little jab in there.

paddypaws · Post by **paddypaws** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:06 pm

I work for a talk radio station in Ireland, been using pro tools for all major production work while using live 4 for the spots and jingles.

Now I’m making the jump and dumping pro tools from our system and going full time with live 5. Got 4 radio docs to deliver before Christmas so we will see if I miss PT in the next few weeks.

fingers crossed

muscleandhate · Post by **muscleandhate** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:12 pm

No way, Quad-Cores in laptops is a few years off yet, surely? Laptops are constrained by heat issues, they are bad enough as it is.

jamester · Post by **jamester** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:56 am

PC has had Core 2 Duo for a while now.

Well for notebooks only a little while; Merom was officially anounced Aug 28th, and has been trickling in ever since.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2009310,00.asp

But yes it's true, Apple is behind the curve currently.
And I also think QuadCore notebooks are at least another year off, personally.

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