I'm going to purchase a Mac mini and use Time Machine to travel into the future so I can buy an updated Macbook Pro. Anyone want me to look at APPL stock while I'm there (or is it then?)?
Would traveling through time void Apple's return policy on the Mac mini?
I need/want to buy a laptop. I don't care who, what, when, or why... but how I can get my hands on one at this point. I really hope my waiting is going to be worth it, that it really is very close. I can't wait a month
'Sounds like me in late October, 2003 when I ordered a 15" Aluminum PowerBook the day they were 1st announced in Paris, around 6:00 AM EST!
Now it's deja vu all over again, and I'm impatiently in need of a replacement
It's not even a smaller die (that would require a lot of engineering) it is a "just" a smaller package with the same LV die as the C2D
L7700 (4M L2 cache 1.80 GHz 800 MHz FSB 65nm)
L7500 (4M L2 cache 1.60 GHz 800 MHz FSB 65nm)
The circuitry/links between the die and the socket have been reduced.
Intel had this process planned for the Montevina Penryns, my guess is that Apple asked for it and Intel was happy to give it to Apple with LV merom dies.
I'm pretty sure that the MB Air will be enough a success that Apple will upgrad it to the montevina flavor (still 1.60 and 1.86GHz but with faster FSB, DDR3 RAM and better GMA) in the coming summer/fall and to be more cost effective the same motherboard/chipset could be used in the MacBook and the Mac mini (but with standard power cpus - those 25W chips that are clocked at 2.26 and 2.40GHz).
I don't think that the Macbook Pro will move to Montevina as soon as it is available. Just look at the situation we are in right now with Penryn. How long has it been since PC notebooks started using these chips, and yet we sit here with baited breath for the MBPro to get these chips. I suspect that they will probably do the same thing when Montevina comes out...
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Would traveling through time void Apple's return policy on the Mac mini?
I need/want to buy a laptop. I don't care who, what, when, or why... but how I can get my hands on one at this point. I really hope my waiting is going to be worth it, that it really is very close. I can't wait a month
'Sounds like me in late October, 2003 when I ordered a 15" Aluminum PowerBook the day they were 1st announced in Paris, around 6:00 AM EST!
Now it's deja vu all over again, and I'm impatiently in need of a replacement
1) I don't think the Montevina will be ready for production that soon
2) The MBA uses a 65nm Merom on a smaller die.
3) Intel didn'te really create this specifically for Apple, but may have put it into production for Apple.
? http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3201&p=2
It's not even a smaller die (that would require a lot of engineering) it is a "just" a smaller package with the same LV die as the C2D
L7700 (4M L2 cache 1.80 GHz 800 MHz FSB 65nm)
L7500 (4M L2 cache 1.60 GHz 800 MHz FSB 65nm)
The circuitry/links between the die and the socket have been reduced.
Intel had this process planned for the Montevina Penryns, my guess is that Apple asked for it and Intel was happy to give it to Apple with LV merom dies.
I'm pretty sure that the MB Air will be enough a success that Apple will upgrad it to the montevina flavor (still 1.60 and 1.86GHz but with faster FSB, DDR3 RAM and better GMA) in the coming summer/fall and to be more cost effective the same motherboard/chipset could be used in the MacBook and the Mac mini (but with standard power cpus - those 25W chips that are clocked at 2.26 and 2.40GHz).