To All
Thanking everyone for their input on running Parallels on a MacBook Pro.
I was about to order a 15" MacBook Pro until I came across an AP story
(below) on Intel's announcement of their Core 2 Duo microprocessors. I did
some research and confirmed that the new MacBook Pros use the Intel Core Duo
processor (the Intel ³Yonah² chip) and not the newer Core Duo 2 processor
(the Intel ³Merom² chip) described in the article. According to an
AppleInsider article (www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1890), Apple will
be using the Merom chip before the end of the year
Based on the above I have decided to delay my purchase until I can find out
when Apple will be putting these new Merom chips in their MacBook Pro
computers - I am hoping there will be an announcement at the WWDC. I am not
as interested in the performance bump of the newer chips as I am in the
(hopefully) lower heat output.
Thought this might be of interest to some of you who were planning on a
MacBook Pro purchase.
Dad
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Intel Unveils New Chips, Slashes Prices
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Jul 28, 8:06 AM (ET)
By DAN GOODIN
(AP) Intel Corp. CEO Paul Otellini holds up their newest chip during an
interview after their unveiling...
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) - Intel Corp. (INTC) launched its biggest product
revamp in six years Thursday, unveiling 10 microprocessors that are expected
to help the world's largest chip maker retake ground lost to smaller
competitor Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD)
The Core 2 Duo microprocessors, which are being rolled out gradually over
the next month, are Intel's first desktop and mobile chips to feature a
blueprint designed to deliver significantly better performance while
requiring less power and kicking off less heat.
Also Thursday, Intel slashed prices as much as 61 percent on some of its
older chips - a move likely to put more pressure on AMD and result in lower
prices for consumers.
Over the past year, Santa Clara-based Intel has lost about 5 percentage
points of market share to rival AMD, thanks to a raft of products that many
reviewers have said were faster and less expensive to run than Pentium 4
processors, which Intel rolled out in 2000.
Intel's latest design, which delivers as much as 40 percent better
performance while consuming as much as 40 percent fewer watts than the
previous generation, represents a potent weapon as it tries to close an
advantage that AMD has enjoyed for three years.
"The days when AMD could just kick Intel around like it was a piece of wet
newspaper are gone," said analyst Nathan Brookwood of the research firm
Insight 64. "It is really a dramatic shift in terms of their competitive
position, and not a minute too soon."
Intel CEO Paul Otellini acknowledged that the company's old design - or
microarchitecture - struggled to compete against AMD's offerings. He vowed
that Intel would develop new designs more frequently than it has in the
past.
"As it gets long in the tooth, you see diminishing returns," Otellini said
in an interview Thursday. "That's why it was essential to move to a new
microarchitecture."
But AMD executives said they weren't impressed.
(AP) Intel Corp. CEO Paul Otellini talks about their newest chip at an
unveiling at Intel headquarters...
Full Image"AMD is now quite accustomed to Intel reacting and attempting to
follow our lead," AMD Vice President Patrick Moorhead wrote in an e-mail
Thursday afternoon.
Intel, which has already begun shipping the new processors, said the new
Core 2 Duo chips will be available from PC makers over the next month. PCs
carrying Intel's Core 2 Extreme, a high-end model aimed at computer gamers
and enthusiasts, are already being sold. Desktop systems with the Core 2 Duo
will be available in about two weeks, while mobile machines carrying the new
chip will start selling in about a month.
Prices for desktop processors range from $183 at the low-end to $999 for the
top-of-the-line model, when purchased in volume. Intel did not provide
prices for its mobile chips.
The chips, which act as the electronic brain in a computer, are built using
a state-of-the-art manufacturing process in which the average circuit
feature has been shrunk to about 65 nanometers - small enough so that 100
transistors will fit into a single human blood cell. There are about 291
million transistors in each processor.
Shrinking the circuitry allows Intel to cram more transistors onto the same
size of silicon, in much the same way that condensing a letter font allows
more words to be printed on a piece of paper. The smaller size also allows
Intel to put two computing engines on a single chip.
(AP) Intel Corp. CEO Paul Otellini, right, talks with Sean Maloney, left,
Intel Executive Vice President...
Full ImageBoth Intel and AMD are racing to deliver more power-efficient
chips as energy bills for maintaining large numbers of computers and keeping
them cool have emerged as one of the top costs in running many businesses.
Intel's price cuts also will help the chip maker clear out inventory of
older chips.
The new price of a Pentium 4 desktop chip is now $84, down from $218 just
last month. Intel cut prices for the Pentium D desktop chip up to 40
percent. The price for the most expensive Pentium D was slashed to $316 from
$530 in June.
In the most recent quarter, Intel profit plunged 57 percent to $885 million,
and sales slumped 13 percent to $8 billion - the company's lowest quarterly
profit and revenue since 2004.
Shares of Intel lost 3 cents to close at $17.47 in Thursday trading on the
Nasdaq Stock Market. AMD shares lost 19 cents, to $18.06, on the New York
Stock Exchange.
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