Drats! iBook to be first Mactel laptop.
At least as noted here.
Yonah in the iBooks for Q1 2006 and Merom in mid 2006 for the Powerbooks. Says the Merom will be a dual core.
I was really hoping that since the 12" Powerbook didn't get updated the other day that maybe it would be getting this first. Apparently not. Oh well, not giving up yet.
Yonah in the iBooks for Q1 2006 and Merom in mid 2006 for the Powerbooks. Says the Merom will be a dual core.
I was really hoping that since the 12" Powerbook didn't get updated the other day that maybe it would be getting this first. Apparently not. Oh well, not giving up yet.
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Originally posted by kcmac
At least as noted here.
Yonah in the iBooks for Q1 2006 and Merom in mid 2006 for the Powerbooks. Says the Merom will be a dual core.
I was really hoping that since the 12" Powerbook didn't get updated the other day that maybe it would be getting this first. Apparently not. Oh well, not giving up yet.
Sorry, but I fail to see the argument behind this assertion.
Originally posted by mynamehere
That seems odd...that would make the iBook more powerful than the PB.
haha.. good for an iBook user like me
The 64-bit stuff is somewhat more important on the x86 side then the PowerPC side, but if PB's wait then iBooks wait.
PB's are the pro machine, if the iBooks are more powerful people buy those and Apple accepts lower margins - Apple hates lower margins, and PB's have more then iBooks.
I haven't heard anything about Merom having hyperthreading so I'm doubting that portion of the article. Intel hasn't released any real substantial info though on Merom so plenty of things are up in the air.
Apples's future laptops might not even be called "iBooks..... or "PowerBooks"!
Originally posted by hmurchison
I think there could be some truth to this. The iBook's current pricing level will be competing with single and dual-core yonah based PC laptops. Apple is going to have to have to update the iBook with Yonah mid 2006 or earlier and then quickly get Merom into the Powerbook late summer 2006...
According to the x-bit labs article the important fact is that Merom may be pin-compatible with Yonah, making it easy to upgrade computers from Yonah to Merom with only a BIOS (or what Apple choose to use) update. That means that we could see a entire laptop line switch to Intel early 2006 and then upgraded to Merom (for the high-end) at the end of the summer or fall 2006.
I was hoping for (early 2006):
- 10.x" single core Yonah
- 13.x" single core Yonah
- 15.x" dual core Yonah
- 17.x" dual core Yonah
And then (fall 2006):
- 10.x" dual core Yonah
- 13.x" dual core Yonah
- 15.x" dual core Merom
- 17.x" dual core Merom
Looking forward to January and Q1.
The PBs could also be the dual core Yonah line while the iBook stays single core, which would be an ideal way to keep them apart on the market.
All I would really put money on is that there are a lot of engineers and programmers working some very long hours at Apple right now.
Originally posted by kenaustus
iBooks can move forward to Yonah and, as long as they don't have all the features as the PBs the two lines can live together - especially if Freescale delivers the dual core G4s - which they were supposed to do about now (right . . .) and the line is bumped in Jan/Feb.
Dual cores from freescale have been delayed a year, till 2nd H 06.
Yech!
In the end, it will definitely be worth it.
Originally posted by vinney57
I thought it was generally accepted that the low end lines would switch first to Intel. Makes perfect sense; they are the products that suffer most in PC comparisons. The Intel roadmap also suggest this the case. Has something changed?
Nothing has changed, Apple/Jobs have made no announcements as to what will switch when.
Personally I think low-end makes no sense as switching to Intel will boost performance beyond the pro line.
What's the point, there is just about no software ready for it. There really is nothing holding up Apple from releasing hardware, they could do it tomorrow, the dev machines have proved that. The only thing that prevents Apple is the software and hardware performance. It's a bit of a moving target as the faster and better the Power PC chips get the harder it is to make the jump. They cannot release slower machines than the existing models.
I love the durability, the long battery life and great airport range of the ibook.
I do wish the 12" ibook came with a Super Drive option though. Like its Powerbook counter part...it is always short changed in some way.
Still....I can't wait to see what happens at MWSF.
Until then...my old trusty g3 icebook will have to hold me over. No way am I upgrading now...even though its tempting.
Originally posted by Addison
REALLY. Who wants an Intel based machine now?
I'd buy a YonahBook if I was in the market for a Mac now. But then I also ran OS X public beta without Classic.