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Quote: Originally Posted by womblingfree Those that don't want an optical drive just go buy an Air and an iPad and leave the rest of us to continue ripping and burning CD's and DVD's and hoping to one day be allowed to watch our blu-ray collectio…
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Quote: Originally Posted by infinitespecter Totally, 100% disagree. Looking at the HP Envy line versus the Macbook Pro (both 13 and 15") the computers aren't dramatically smaller or lighter despite using similar materials and construction with ex…
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Quote: Originally Posted by G-News Of course AMDs future products will have a better TDP, but so will Intel's. Quad-core mobile Sandy Bridge is still 45 W, although this time there will be an integrated GPU. Quote: Originally Posted by hmu…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmurchison Llano will likely come in Dual Core, Triple Core and Quad Core. Which is why their TDP range goes from 20 Watts to almost 60 (which is likely the Quad core). Quad-core goes to as low as 30 W but that'll …
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Quote: Originally Posted by ksec Yes, i already said Bulldozer version of Fusion will compete with IvyBridge, not SandyBridge. Which makes the matter worse. Ivy Bridge will probably neutralize AMD's core count advantage unless Llano's successo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Except that Intel's two core chips have been beating AMD's four core chips. I see no reason to believe that will change soon. Not in multithreaded situations. Clock speeds and price also play a part.
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac So why would you use that on a Mac Pro? The iMac might be interesting but an i7 iMac is a performance powerhouse and very nearly a perfect machine IMO. The people that buy Mac Pros generally can afford and…
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac Unless AMD has cpus that'll outperform Sandy Bridge, and that appears unlikely from what I've read but one never knows, I don't see Apple moving to an AMD cpus in all the Apple products. Core-for-core, AM…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin In that case, no quads on the low-end as it's 4 x (2.5-25W) + the GPU (probably 10W). From the link just posted, it seems dual core with the GPU will manage 30W but quad with the GPU can be as high as 59W and th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by myapplelove I think you are right, but you might be in the wrong forums, shouldn't you be at forums.macrumors.com? I have an account here too… Quote: Originally Posted by myapplelove If they have the extra fun…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin 4 cores and a GPU inside a package that consumes 2.5-25W. The package doesn't consume 2.5-25 W, one of the cores does.
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Quote: Originally Posted by ltcommander.data The other wild-card may be that Sandy Bridge sees a return of the CPU microarchitectural stewardship to the Haifa team in Isreal who was responsible for the Pentium M and it's descendants the Core and …
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Quote: Originally Posted by backtomac I think people expecting low cost Macs are missing the big picture. If true, this isn't about what AMD can do for them now. Its what AMD have in the pipeline. My guess is that AMDs Fusion cpu/gpu and B…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lemon Bon Bon. Hmmm. If the 8 core is imminent...why use the 6 core? Other than as a lower end model. I thought 8-core was where Intel were heading originally anyhow? How is this chip different aside from the c…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Intel Core i3 Meanwhile, people familiar with the matter tell AppleInsider that Apple has intended to use Intel's 2.26GHz 350M Core i3 processor for the low end of at least some of its forthcoming Mac m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by piot 100% correct! Nearly all the flame ridden, internet forum, arguments about Apple ... boil down to just two things. 1. If an Apple product doesn't fulfil my needs, it will be a commercial failure. 2. If I …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland The tablet will be called Mac touch, or I'll eat my hat. Get ready to eat your hat then. It's doubtful it will run anything similar to Mac OS X.
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox BTW, where's Ireland? He keeps insisting that a tablet will run something he's been calling "Mac OS X Touch" or something. Where does that fit in? I've never been exactly clear what he imagines that to be, b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Hal 9000 Using the same logic, putting iPhone OS on a tablet is like putting a joystick on a motorcycle. More like iPod OS.
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacTripper No not now, first the iSlate takes over the MacBooks then the MBP's eventually, it could take years. It's all theory of course, but the MacBook line being reduced to one version is suspicious. I don't …