This story would have been a bit easier to bite onto had they said desktops, but there is no way apple is gonna choose turion over merom. There is no way that is gonna happen, and I just lost ALL respect for digitimes for even saying that.
AI: Do me a favor and never post anything from digitimes again. They are a worthless company that needs to be taken out to the backyard and hit over the head with a shovel.
How is this any different from the initial reactions to the rumors of Apple's Intel switch, which later proved to be true?
Or Apple making video iPods?
Because this is coming from the "always accurate" DigiTimes and because it makes absolutely no sense given how far ahead Intel is with notebook technology.
I could have believed that Apple would have picked AMD over Intel at the switch but not now. Apple can't afford to lose Intel and I think that using AMD would annoy them sufficiently. Plus there's no reason to. Price to performance ratios are good, supply is good, updates are fast and AMD has little to no advantage over that.
which means? MLCC (multi-layer ceramic chip) capacitors are all the rage in contemporary efforts to reduce size and improve performance. But still, the only way you can get a 22uF MLCC cap is by selecting a model with poor temperature stability, large size, or poor voltage tolerance. So the tipsters expect that the parts have poor voltage tolerance, which should be OK since modern VLSI operates at such low voltages, and that the only possible way to utilize seventy of them is in a design with a large CPU+GPU SoC. For something like the iPhone, there doesn't seem to be any logical reason to use 22uF caps at all, but maybe I could be proven wrong.
Anyway, here's the bottom line: if the AMD reference design indeed calls for 70x 22uF MLCCs, and if you're in the market to buy a motherboard for one of these, DON'T GO CHEAP. 22uF MLCCs run a premium, and it's worth paying for good ones.
Using AMD would be good for Apple in that it would allow for better video card options etc...
Wait, what?
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and allow for less expensive notebooks using AMD processors.
I have news for you: the MacBooks, which you seem to imply aren't cheap enough, are Apple's hottest sellers. They have not a single reason to attempt to lower their prices.
I have news for you: the MacBooks, which you seem to imply aren't cheap enough, are Apple's hottest sellers. They have not a single reason to attempt to lower their prices.
Why lower the price when sheep buy them? LOL!!!
Anyway Apple needs a more hardware options and AMD would be a good start.
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Why? Intels mobile chips are the crown jewels of their products and significantly better than what AMD can offer. I dont' understand this one.
If Apple did use an AMD chip in a laptop, I'm sure Apple's web site would display benchmarks showing the AMD chip to be faster than the Intel chip.
Yep, not gonna happen. Intel and Apple are bed buddies 4-ever! Smooches!
No way. Intel is evil and their processors can't even divide numbers correctly. Dell is an Intel whore! PowerPC rules!!
AI: Do me a favor and never post anything from digitimes again. They are a worthless company that needs to be taken out to the backyard and hit over the head with a shovel.
How is this any different from the initial reactions to the rumors of Apple's Intel switch, which later proved to be true?
Or Apple making video iPods?
Because this is coming from the "always accurate" DigiTimes and because it makes absolutely no sense given how far ahead Intel is with notebook technology.
isn't OSX the only OS that supports it now or does linux?
How is this any different from the initial reactions to the rumors of Apple's Intel switch, which later proved to be true?
Or Apple making video iPods?
Because Steve Jobs like to say he has seen the road map over and over and over and over, etc.
Plus, AMD has nothing that competes with Intels mobil chips.
If Apple did use an AMD chip in a laptop, I'm sure Apple's web site would display benchmarks showing the AMD chip to be faster than the Intel chip.
Why? Did Apple hire Rumsfeld?
Apple is ordering a lot of 22uF MLCC caps. . .
which means? MLCC (multi-layer ceramic chip) capacitors are all the rage in contemporary efforts to reduce size and improve performance. But still, the only way you can get a 22uF MLCC cap is by selecting a model with poor temperature stability, large size, or poor voltage tolerance. So the tipsters expect that the parts have poor voltage tolerance, which should be OK since modern VLSI operates at such low voltages, and that the only possible way to utilize seventy of them is in a design with a large CPU+GPU SoC. For something like the iPhone, there doesn't seem to be any logical reason to use 22uF caps at all, but maybe I could be proven wrong.
Anyway, here's the bottom line: if the AMD reference design indeed calls for 70x 22uF MLCCs, and if you're in the market to buy a motherboard for one of these, DON'T GO CHEAP. 22uF MLCCs run a premium, and it's worth paying for good ones.
- Mark
Using AMD would be good for Apple in that it would allow for better video card options etc...
Wait, what?
and allow for less expensive notebooks using AMD processors.
I have news for you: the MacBooks, which you seem to imply aren't cheap enough, are Apple's hottest sellers. They have not a single reason to attempt to lower their prices.
Wait, what?
You know......
I have news for you: the MacBooks, which you seem to imply aren't cheap enough, are Apple's hottest sellers. They have not a single reason to attempt to lower their prices.
Why lower the price when sheep buy them? LOL!!!
Anyway Apple needs a more hardware options and AMD would be a good start.
Understatement of the year!
goes without saying
I wonder is Apple has a version of OS X running on AMD chips?
- Mark
i think amd use the same processor architecture, or what ever its called, as intel. so it wouldnt really need a different build.
More impressive if that said Opteron.