Dr. Nick Riviera Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 a whole lot more than it ever did in a pc This is the first Mac notebook built upon the revolutionary new Intel Core Duo — which is actually two processors (up to 1.83GHz) engineered onto a single chip. It provides 2MB of Smart Cache, L2 cache that can be shared between both cores as needed. It delivers higher performance in 2D and 3D graphics, video editing, and music encoding. And the new engine is only part of the story. MacBook Pro has a frontside bus and memory that, at 667MHz, runs faster than any previous Mac notebook. It’s the first Mac notebook with PCI Express, a Serial ATA hard drive and the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 for superfast graphics performance.more here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Hmm. It damn well better not be 4 times faster than my Powerbook It ain't cheap though (£1429). I hope they will be releasing some other shit too at Macworld, we all knew this was coming. Macbook Pro is a bit of a crap name though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted January 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 ahh i've been kicking about on macrumours, the name is a bit wank , but dammit the spec sounds sexy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 ahh i've been kicking about on macrumours, the name is a bit wank , but dammit the spec sounds sexyYeah, should be a total beast. But it's basically just a Powerbook pimped a bit. Why not call it a Powerbook Pro? They haven't even changed the case. But will it come with a shitty intel sticker? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siders77 Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Speaking of Intel, anyone seen the new logo for them yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai the Socket Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 I'm getting mine March 2nd Good 'eh. The 1.83GHz one. Can't f**king WAIT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Getting the iBook version. When it comes out this summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 I'm getting mine March 2nd Good 'eh. The 1.83GHz one. Can't f**king WAIT.WTF how come you have so much money to spend on Macs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siders77 Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Because he's a Mac tart. Or should I say an Apple tart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Because he's a Mac tart. Or should I say an Apple tart. Think the phrase you are looking for is 'mummies boy'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai the Socket Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Think the phrase you are looking for is 'mummies boy'. Um. No. Not at all.I've got money saved for stuff like this?I'm selling my old Powerbook and I've got £1k saved for stuff anyway. So I'm buying one of them after I've sorted my car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siders77 Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 How much is your Powerbook going for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai the Socket Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 How much is your Powerbook going for? More than your bike... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Whats so special about that cpu? Dual cores have been around for a while now running a lot higher clocks than that.Give me this laptop anyday http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/09/2...dia_7800/1.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted January 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 nothing at all , to be honest i only posted it so i could make the poor joke from the apple website Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tank_rider Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 wooo, another intel dual core chip that will be crippled by sharing a connection to the memory. Should give mac users a kick up the arse performance wise, oh and in the wallet department too. But unlucky in not being able to use a proper dual core chip like the athlon X2.I can't wait to see the AX2-M chips, they really will bring insane performance to notebooks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 wooo, another intel dual core chip that will be crippled by sharing a connection to the memory. Should give mac users a kick up the arse performance wise, oh and in the wallet department too. But unlucky in not being able to use a proper dual core chip like the athlon X2.I can't wait to see the AX2-M chips, they really will bring insane performance to notebooks.oosaved me saying it ..surely you 'could' run OSX on an athlon chip ? - it's basically an x86 underneath and OSX is just linux. - I spose they'll have nobbed OSX so it only works on intels yuo buy off of apple though won't they.and people bitch about microsoft.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haz Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Um. No. Not at all. It was a joke. I know you pay for all this shit yourself, you told me so on MSN, ages ago, when I acused you over the same thing over your last Mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tank_rider Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 oosaved me saying it ..surely you 'could' run OSX on an athlon chip ? - it's basically an x86 underneath and OSX is just linux. - I spose they'll have nobbed OSX so it only works on intels yuo buy off of apple though won't they.and people bitch about microsoft....There are alrady versions available that do work.It's not the processors thats the trouble, it's the fact apple use a single hardware set which means all the software is optimised to run on only that hardware, and so finding drivers for motherboards etc will be impossible. Thats why apple can charge such high prices for relatively shite hardware, because all the software is optimised for only their hardware and so runs very efficiently, whereas microsoft have to cater for people running infinate different hardware setups and so their software runs relatively in-efficiently, but on faster hardware.Apple can/have to plan ahead much more as to what hardware they want to use, so when they get all the optimised code written it's already slightly out of date, but still very well, and hense attract a higher price tag. However for this reason programs that require raw horsepower (or should that be silicon power) aren't available for macs. I couldn't imagine trying to run the CAE software i've been using today on mac hardware of equivelant cost as it would be pants and take hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Would rather have Dell's new top of the line model. 4ghz. 4 graphic card's, twin SLI. Win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 oosaved me saying it ..surely you 'could' run OSX on an athlon chip ? - it's basically an x86 underneath and OSX is just linux. - I spose they'll have nobbed OSX so it only works on intels you buy off of apple though won't they.and people bitch about microsoft....You can run OS X on an Athlon, yes. I've done it on my computer. It had loads of driver issues, but I think if you spec'd a PC around it, you could probably resolve most of them. But it's not just Linux really. That's kind of like saying WindowsXP is just DOS underneath. It's based on Unix, but it's far from open source And I think the reason Apples are ace is because they only allow OS X to run on the proper hardware. It's kind of an all-in-one solution that works really well and the hardware and software are optimised for each other. You will, apparently, be able to run Windows on the new Macs. Throw away your PC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark W Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Considering many Mac-users seem to think Windows is shit, seems strange how they're making it so Windows is compatible with it? Or is that just some sorta happy coincidence? Or should I just not post in Mac topics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Would rather have Dell's new top of the line model. 4ghz. 4 graphic card's, twin SLI. Win.But thats not a notebook simon And anyway gigabyte did the whole quad SLi thing back in october. http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/10/04/one...te_motherboard/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siders77 Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 I don't see the point in having like 4 GFX Cards? It seems silly to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smo™ Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 There is no point, they did it because they could Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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