Penryn mobile at CES: available immediately
http://ces.cnet.com/8301-13855_1-9840767-67.html
As myself and others have commented earlier: this will be shown at MacWorld.
As myself and others have commented earlier: this will be shown at MacWorld.
Comments
http://ces.cnet.com/8301-13855_1-9840767-67.html
As myself and others have commented earlier: this will be shown at MacWorld.
Here's the slide from AnandTech:
Only the first five are to be used by Apple (AFAIK) and le lineup COULD be:
Mac mini (if updated to Santa Rosa) 2.1/2.4GHz
MacBook 2.1/2.4GHz
MacBook Pro 2.4/2.5/2.6GHz
iMac 2.1/2.5/2.8GHz
If a ultraportable/thin notebook was to be released, 3 possibilities:
- Standard voltage: penryn 2.1/2.4/2.5GHz (from $209 to $316)
- Low voltage: C2D L7500/L7700 800FSB 1.6/1.8GHz ($284/$316) *my personal choice (half the power requierements, about the same performance of the original MBP at 1.83/667)
- Ultra Low Voltage: C2D U7500/U7700 533FSB 1.06/1.33GHz ($262/$289)
Penryn LV and ULV models are not to be released before late Q2 or Q3.
Keep in mind that a second wave of mobile penryn chips are to be released late Q2 and Q3 along with new chipsets (montevina family) that will bring even more performance to the platform (up to 3.06GHz, faster FSB, better GPU, etc... and the first mobile quad).
I can't help but notice that (still) for the price of a mobile dual-core chip you can get a faster quad-core desktop chip:
mobile DC 2.40 $241 / desktop QC 2.50 $266
mobile DC 2.50 $316 / desktop QC 2.66 $316
mobile DC 2.60 $530 / desktop QC 2.83 $530
Here's the slide from AnandTech:
Only the first five are to be used by Apple (AFAIK) and le lineup COULD be:
Mac mini (if updated to Santa Rosa) 2.1/2.4GHz
MacBook 2.1/2.4GHz
MacBook Pro 2.4/2.5/2.6GHz
iMac 2.1/2.5/2.8GHz
If a ultraportable/thin notebook was to be released, 3 possibilities:
- Standard voltage: penryn 2.1/2.4/2.5GHz (from $209 to $316)
- Low voltage: C2D L7500/L7700 800FSB 1.6/1.8GHz ($284/$316) *my personal choice (half the power requierements, about the same performance of the original MBP at 1.83/667)
- Ultra Low Voltage: C2D U7500/U7700 533FSB 1.06/1.33GHz ($262/$289)
Penryn LV and ULV models are not to be released before late Q2 or Q3.
Keep in mind that a second wave of mobile penryn chips are to be released late Q2 and Q3 along with new chipsets (montevina family) that will bring even more performance to the platform (up to 3.06GHz, faster FSB, better GPU, etc... and the first mobile quad).
I can't help but notice that (still) for the price of a mobile dual-core chip you can get a faster quad-core desktop chip:
mobile DC 2.40 $241 / desktop QC 2.50 $266
mobile DC 2.50 $316 / desktop QC 2.66 $316
mobile DC 2.60 $530 / desktop QC 2.83 $530