Ok say they did put an Intel Merom in a Macbook Pro, how much of a difference would it be? Like how much faster is it then the Dual Core Processors? Is it a significant difference, besides the fact that it is one processor?
Ok say they did put an Intel Merom in a Macbook Pro, how much of a difference would it be? Like how much faster is it then the Dual Core Processors? Is it a significant difference, besides the fact that it is one processor?
Umm.. We don't know. There isn't an actual production Merom yet.
That depends on how long your willing to wait. People always predict things are coming out from Apple, but Apple has a tendency to defy prediction, and you never get what you predict when you think it'll happen. Then there are a bunch of idiot whiny bastards in here crying that their product wasn't released, and Apple never said they were releasing anything anyway, but for some reason they thought they had some sort of guarantee. I wouldn't wait. The best advice anyone ever gets in here is if you need a computer now - get one. These look pretty damn good right now, and nobody knows when Apple will update the powerbook ---- scratch that... MacBook Pro next.
Elixir, just remember that we are talking about intel and the world of x86 chips. they will update in no less than 6 months and apple is gonna have to put those chips in their machines, or else the rest of the pc makers are gonna run circles around apples mac( whatever they all called ) machines.
45nm should bring quad core down to an affordable level with nice sized caches
Merom is the bastard child of the Banias/Dothan/Yonah clan and Netburst.
It's likely to have a 4 Issue core (surpasses even today's Pentium 4, Athlon64 and Banias/Dothan chips)
4MB cache should be standard. EM64T 64-bit support. I wouldn't be surprised to see new Intel tech in branch prediction and improvements in cache design. They seem to excel at this stuff.
At any rate I don't expect Merom to be cheap initially. Merom is what Intel cancelled Tejas (Pentium 4 successor) for. Hower I do expect it to be fast...up to %30 faster than a Yonah or Pentium 4 per clock.
Elixir, just remember that we are talking about intel and the world of x86 chips. they will update in no less than 6 months and apple is gonna have to put those chips in their machines, or else the rest of the pc makers are gonna run circles around apples mac( whatever they all called ) machines.
Maybe, but the same thing will happen again soon after that. It's an endless cycle of design improvement, and performance upgrades, (that are always a little less than you would have expected - except this one), but what do you do; say your going to buy the next one after every revision, and sit there typing on your Apple IIe from 1986 when 2050 comes around?
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Originally posted by MacsRbetterthanPC
Ok say they did put an Intel Merom in a Macbook Pro, how much of a difference would it be? Like how much faster is it then the Dual Core Processors? Is it a significant difference, besides the fact that it is one processor?
Umm.. We don't know. There isn't an actual production Merom yet.
so its sure something worth the wait for ..
i'm ordering my macbook now.
they better not update too soon!
core duo is first step into 45nm tech
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45nm should bring quad core down to an affordable level with nice sized caches
Merom is the bastard child of the Banias/Dothan/Yonah clan and Netburst.
It's likely to have a 4 Issue core (surpasses even today's Pentium 4, Athlon64 and Banias/Dothan chips)
4MB cache should be standard. EM64T 64-bit support. I wouldn't be surprised to see new Intel tech in branch prediction and improvements in cache design. They seem to excel at this stuff.
At any rate I don't expect Merom to be cheap initially. Merom is what Intel cancelled Tejas (Pentium 4 successor) for. Hower I do expect it to be fast...up to %30 faster than a Yonah or Pentium 4 per clock.
Yonah already giving good performance for Laptops we have to see what is there for Desktops
Originally posted by ghstmars
Elixir, just remember that we are talking about intel and the world of x86 chips. they will update in no less than 6 months and apple is gonna have to put those chips in their machines, or else the rest of the pc makers are gonna run circles around apples mac( whatever they all called ) machines.
Maybe, but the same thing will happen again soon after that. It's an endless cycle of design improvement, and performance upgrades, (that are always a little less than you would have expected - except this one), but what do you do; say your going to buy the next one after every revision, and sit there typing on your Apple IIe from 1986 when 2050 comes around?