a 1.66ghz core duo in a macbook would be just so awesome. finally the world's most advanced operating system can get some decent hardware to go along with it.
a 13" wide 1.66ghz core duo macbook for us$999 would give samsungs, vaios, and even dells a good run for their money. probably an x1300 ati with 64mb dedicated vram and some sweet hardware decoding (and maybe later on encoding) of h.264.
then there's no way in hell apple will come out with a cheaper core duo laptop... even a pentium M iBook would be thoroughly adequate at this stage. *sigh* anyway we might find out in due time...........
then there's no way in hell apple will come out with a cheaper core duo laptop... even a pentium M iBook would be thoroughly adequate at this stage. *sigh* anyway we might find out in due time...........
It's too bad, but these things cost considerably more than a G4. It's a little better with the prices coming down soon, but still...
indeed. considering dell's cheapest core duo laptop is like what, $1200...? [edit:]
Acer travelmate is $999. Dell doesn't have one that cheap...yet. But the ibook likely won't ship for at least a month. If that's the case, Duo prices will likely have dropped again and Dell will have one that cheap or even less.
Apple may have a solo in the $999 ibook. But likely not for long considering the new chips scheduled to come out, and price drops that will happen.
Acer travelmate is $999. Dell doesn't have one that cheap...yet. But the ibook likely won't ship for at least a month. If that's the case, Duo prices will likely have dropped again and Dell will have one that cheap or even less.
Apple may have a solo in the $999 ibook. But likely not for long considering the new chips scheduled to come out, and price drops that will happen.
Hello mindbender,
Where exactly did you read that Core Duo prices did drop in the first place?
surprice:
Quote:
Originally posted by AppleInsider
Intel is expected to cut the prices on the Core Duo mobile microprocessors used in Apple Computer's latest Macintosh systems by the end of May. [snipperdesnipsnipsnip]
If Freescale wasn't so slow with thses chips, Apple might still be on PPC.
Problem is, every chip they sell to Apple, they sell 50 to auto companies, embedded process control, etc.
There was no money in it for them. Same for IBM.
Where was the 7448, the dual 600?
A few years ago Motorola had a press release naming their top five customers based on dollar purchases and Apple was in the list(re: though at the time, I could not determine an order of largest to smallest customer). While Motorola at the time sold many many more chips to other companies, Apple was buying the most expensive. Based on the information at the time(re: from Apple's sales data and Motorola's announcement of how many G4's they sold), Apple had purchased just over half of all the G4's manufactured up to the time of another announcement extolling the virtues of the G4.
I don't have the links any more, but the information and the links were posted at one time @ Arestechnica.
It's a myth that Apple was not a large and significant customer of Motorola's in terms of dollar sales. Losing Apple, at this time might, not be such a big deal to Freescale, since the advent of the G5 supplanted much of the G4 sales to Apple(re: especially once they stopped selling dual processor G4 machines), but it still has got to hurt Freescale to lose Apple.
A few years ago Motorola had a press release naming their top five customers based on dollar purchases and Apple was in the list(re: though at the time, I could not determine an order of largest to smallest customer). While Motorola at the time sold many many more chips to other companies, Apple was buying the most expensive. Based on the information at the time(re: from Apple's sales data and Motorola's announcement of how many G4's they sold), Apple had purchased just over half of all the G4's manufactured up to the time of another announcement extolling the virtues of the G4.
I don't have the links any more, but the information and the links were posted at one time @ Arestechnica.
It's a myth that Apple was not a large and significant customer of Motorola's in terms of dollar sales. Losing Apple, at this time might, not be such a big deal to Freescale, since the advent of the G5 supplanted much of the G4 sales to Apple(re: especially once they stopped selling dual processor G4 machines), but it still has got to hurt Freescale to lose Apple.
That was a long time ago. Before auto companies and others switched over to the PPC in large numbers. At that time, most embedded chips from Moto were still 68xxx models.
It was also before Apple went to IBM and took more than half of the business away from Moto.
That difference just increased in the following years. By the time Apple decided to leave Freescale, the chips Apple was buying were being made under the "embedded" chip division. Freescale no longer has a separate desktop offering. So, Apple has been buying chips intended for other purposes than for what they were using them for. Not a good prospect going on into the future.
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a 13" wide 1.66ghz core duo macbook for us$999 would give samsungs, vaios, and even dells a good run for their money. probably an x1300 ati with 64mb dedicated vram and some sweet hardware decoding (and maybe later on encoding) of h.264.
c'mon apple.........!!
Originally posted by sunilraman
(a) 1.66ghz core duo macbook for us$999 would give samsungs, vaios, and even dells a good run for their money.
indeed. considering dell's cheapest core duo laptop is like what, $1200...? [edit:]
if apple could do that much better, then it would not be the cpus that are the most impressive of this new intel based line-up..
bring it on APPLE, Core Duo...
come october MacBook with Core Duo 2.0 Ghz!!!, that will be awesome
Originally posted by sunilraman
It's too bad, but these things cost considerably more than a G4. It's a little better with the prices coming down soon, but still...
Originally posted by melgross
It's too bad, but these things cost considerably more than a G4. It's a little better with the prices coming down soon, but still...
Your right. They do cost more but dang, the G4 line is waaay over due for this kind of performance.
Originally posted by aplnub
Your right. They do cost more but dang, the G4 line is waaay over due for this kind of performance.
If Freescale wasn't so slow with thses chips, Apple might still be on PPC.
Problem is, every chip they sell to Apple, they sell 50 to auto companies, embedded process control, etc.
There was no money in it for them. Same for IBM.
Where was the 7448, the dual 600?
Originally posted by tubgirl
indeed. considering dell's cheapest core duo laptop is like what, $1200...? [edit:]
Acer travelmate is $999. Dell doesn't have one that cheap...yet. But the ibook likely won't ship for at least a month. If that's the case, Duo prices will likely have dropped again and Dell will have one that cheap or even less.
Apple may have a solo in the $999 ibook. But likely not for long considering the new chips scheduled to come out, and price drops that will happen.
Originally posted by minderbinder
Acer travelmate is $999. Dell doesn't have one that cheap...yet. But the ibook likely won't ship for at least a month. If that's the case, Duo prices will likely have dropped again and Dell will have one that cheap or even less.
Apple may have a solo in the $999 ibook. But likely not for long considering the new chips scheduled to come out, and price drops that will happen.
Hello mindbender,
Where exactly did you read that Core Duo prices did drop in the first place?
surprice:
Originally posted by AppleInsider
Intel is expected to cut the prices on the Core Duo mobile microprocessors used in Apple Computer's latest Macintosh systems by the end of May. [snipperdesnipsnipsnip]
Originally posted by melgross
If Freescale wasn't so slow with thses chips, Apple might still be on PPC.
Problem is, every chip they sell to Apple, they sell 50 to auto companies, embedded process control, etc.
There was no money in it for them. Same for IBM.
Where was the 7448, the dual 600?
A few years ago Motorola had a press release naming their top five customers based on dollar purchases and Apple was in the list(re: though at the time, I could not determine an order of largest to smallest customer). While Motorola at the time sold many many more chips to other companies, Apple was buying the most expensive. Based on the information at the time(re: from Apple's sales data and Motorola's announcement of how many G4's they sold), Apple had purchased just over half of all the G4's manufactured up to the time of another announcement extolling the virtues of the G4.
I don't have the links any more, but the information and the links were posted at one time @ Arestechnica.
It's a myth that Apple was not a large and significant customer of Motorola's in terms of dollar sales. Losing Apple, at this time might, not be such a big deal to Freescale, since the advent of the G5 supplanted much of the G4 sales to Apple(re: especially once they stopped selling dual processor G4 machines), but it still has got to hurt Freescale to lose Apple.
Originally posted by rickag
A few years ago Motorola had a press release naming their top five customers based on dollar purchases and Apple was in the list(re: though at the time, I could not determine an order of largest to smallest customer). While Motorola at the time sold many many more chips to other companies, Apple was buying the most expensive. Based on the information at the time(re: from Apple's sales data and Motorola's announcement of how many G4's they sold), Apple had purchased just over half of all the G4's manufactured up to the time of another announcement extolling the virtues of the G4.
I don't have the links any more, but the information and the links were posted at one time @ Arestechnica.
It's a myth that Apple was not a large and significant customer of Motorola's in terms of dollar sales. Losing Apple, at this time might, not be such a big deal to Freescale, since the advent of the G5 supplanted much of the G4 sales to Apple(re: especially once they stopped selling dual processor G4 machines), but it still has got to hurt Freescale to lose Apple.
That was a long time ago. Before auto companies and others switched over to the PPC in large numbers. At that time, most embedded chips from Moto were still 68xxx models.
It was also before Apple went to IBM and took more than half of the business away from Moto.
That difference just increased in the following years. By the time Apple decided to leave Freescale, the chips Apple was buying were being made under the "embedded" chip division. Freescale no longer has a separate desktop offering. So, Apple has been buying chips intended for other purposes than for what they were using them for. Not a good prospect going on into the future.