Intel Launches Mobile Extreme CPU (Already in iMac)
The 2.8GHz Merom processor offers a 4MB L2 cache with support for 800MHz Front Side Bus.
Readers will recognize this chip as the chip that was announced in the iMac on August 7th as a high end configuration. It appears that Apple is able to get preferential shipments on upcoming Intel processors. Intel had previously provided Apple with a 3.0GHz Xeon (Clovertown) processor with an early limited production.
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And it has a TDP of 44 watts...it's not showing up in a Macbook near you, unless it ships with an external heat shield for your body! :(
This is the chip that's in the high-end iMac now, 4God. ;)
Oops, didn't think it was the same model number. Sorry if this is
an irrelevant post. Ahh, I have now read the entire article......duh.
Please be kind.....
The first customer to get this high-end processor was once again Apple, which quietly began offering the chip two weeks ago for its new iMac. A 2.8 GHz iMac with a 24" monitor is currently offered from $2300, which translates into a $250 premium over a 2.4 GHz (non-"Extreme") model.
...is talking about the new 7900 chip and not the 7800.
(As a side note, the Intel iMacs have all, as far as I know, used "laptop" chip designs -- Yonah and Merom, before this one. Although, in this chip's case, it's a bit of a stretch to call it a laptop design!)
Could this be the next update to the MBPs? At the rate its going, for those who want to have the newest MBP would have to purchase a new notebook every 6-8 months. Apple should have a lease program :D
Engadget is saying new Intel chips for first quarter of 08 will clock as high as 3Ghz at 25-35 watts. http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/22/intel-readying-slew-of-45nm-penryn-mobile-cpus/
Could this be the next update to the MBPs? At the rate its going, for those who want to have the newest MBP would have to purchase a new notebook every 6-8 months. Apple should have a lease program :D
And why would one need to have the newest components all the time?
Not that I subscribe to this, but bragging right, for one ;)
And why would one need to have the newest components all the time?
i do
but ill believe a 25-30 watt 3ghz chip when i see one
the reason apple uses laptop chips in the imac is because they run cooler they also come at a premium which is why everyone dosent do that
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