Update times on Macs?
Traditionally Apple has been quite slow with updates but Intel has a tendency to release updates far more often, quarterly in fact, and Apple now competes against the rest of the PC makers far more closely.
In 6 months both the MacBook Pro and the iMac should be updated again definitely but can we start expecting Apple to pass on Intel's quarterly price cuts/new processors?
In 6 months both the MacBook Pro and the iMac should be updated again definitely but can we start expecting Apple to pass on Intel's quarterly price cuts/new processors?
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If Apple don't lower prices when Intel does or replace the current Core Duo with new Core Duo whenever they're ready from Intel, Apple will become the laughing stock of the industry.
On the other hand it should be easy enough just to replace the CPU when faster ones are released.
In other news and maybe this should be in a new thread the curse of Apple strikes again as Merom hits some temperature issues.
Sources told TG Daily that Merom silicon as part of the Napa64 platform (Calistoga chipset) is on track, but currently shows higher power consumption levels than the company anticipated. Preliminary tests also revealed than power consumption under Vista is about 5 to 10% higher than under Windows XP. Intel plans to introduce Merom at 2.33 GHz, with the option to also offer 2.5 GHz, if thermal design power (TDP) goals can be achieved.