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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin The CPU increase is not dramatic - it's 15% at the same clock speed. They have to put in more cores for the same price to make the upgrade worthwhile. They can't unless Intel makes it cheaper to do that. Righ…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin I reckon the next update will come with Ivy Bridge in January 2012. Or March, or April, or May, or June 2012. Ivy Bridge to launch in March / April 2012
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Quote: Originally Posted by mcarling I'm guessing that your Acer 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo has an 800MHz front side bus and memory. I think the 1066MHz front side bus and memory of your MacBook Air accounts for most of the performance improvement you'r…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 As to mSATA their is a card format called mSATA, however it has nothing in common with Apples blade SSD frOm what I can see. mSATA is not a card format, it's an interface format which looks like a miniPCIe …
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 I still think the best option here is one of AMDs new Fusion processors. You give up some CPU performance for much better GPU performance and you get OpenCL support. Considering that any discreet GPU would …
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 It will be interesting to see how this all unfolds. ... It really doesn't matter who is right here... What's the matter with you??? I was just describing a few features of the A15 design and providing …
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 A15 is targeted at the server market. The A15 is targeted at everything from phones to servers. Not only its cores are 25-40% faster than A9 cores at the same speed, they will still be very efficient. The…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta I could see making the optical drive optional, but I don't think it's time to completely eliminate them. I don't think making it optional is that much a good idea since the design would still have to take i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Commodus They won't get Xeons. The E7 line is power hungry even relative to fast desktop chips, and even the base ones cost a bloody fortune. You should expect Sandy Bridge equivalents to the existing i3, i5, and i7 …
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Quote: Originally Posted by epimetheus I'm also curious if a sandy bridge Mac Air would drop the frontside bus? (is SB inherently sans FSB?) If the FSB was dropped, the SSD + i7 combo would pretty much eliminate any bottlenecks the Mac Air had…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mercury99 New All in one Sony i7 quad-core 3.3 gHZ hum... Up to Intel® Core? i7-2720QM quad-core processor (2.20GHz, up to 3.30GHz with Turbo Boost) Not the same thing at all.
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Let's not forget that Tbolt has two channels going each way at once. That's a total of 20Gbs each way. And this is just the first implementation. We know that if the path for this isn't interrupted, it will re…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Don't be so sure. Display port has 7 pins and is used to transmit Tbolt now on the MBP's. There is no reason yet to believe for certain it won't do so here. As Quoted from Patently Apple: Notice the "at…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Haggar And what about the DisplayPort portion? Apparently, the current version of Thunderbolt does not provide the full bandwidth of the latest DisplayPort standard. That's true it doesn't support DP 1.2, nor does …
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 Beyond that TB to many of the "I" devices would be a waste if they don't speed up access to flash! A fast port to sync with is of little use if you can't write fast enough to make use of the speed. Th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Haggar On paper, Thunderbolt's 10 gigabits/sec seems like a lot. But: For people hoping for high performance external graphics cards, what is the bandwidth of a PCI Express x16 slot used by internal desktop graphic…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider A patent recently granted to Apple reveals that the company is looking into a modified dock connector compatible with newer high-speed communication standards, such as USB 3.0 and a "dual-lane DisplayPort,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SSquirrel The main problem I see with adoption is that it is a proprietary Intel option and AMD has come out pretty strongly against it. If only Intel systems have it and AMD never joins up, we'll never see it become …
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Marvin, You're the one talking about 20Gb/s not me. It was just an example. The fact is Tbolt works over 4x PCIe lanes total. The current MP as one 16x slot and two 4x slots free, it can use more powerful devices than TBold can, that's all, and u…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 I don't know if Apple will go Xeon in the iMac but there are models with extremely low power profiles. More so there are models with clock rates up to 3.5GHz. An iMac with 4cores/8threads running at 3.5 …