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Geekbench Confirms Ivy Bridge MacBook Pro and iMac
An anonymous reader writes "It was inevitable that Intel launching the 22nm Ivy Bridge processors would lead to Apple using them in its laptops and desktop machines. While Apple never leaks details early, someone using pre-release hardware has managed to upload details of the new machine to Geekbench's database. We can definitely expect a Core i7 Ivy Bridge MacBook Pro and iMac later this year."
Which is a major downside to all of this news for us in companies.
Veni, Vidi, Velcro!
The Mac Pro is dead.
and the same goes for Mac products, except in the possibility there may be a 15 inch Air style MacBook Pro coming. So unless they have moved SSDs more mainstream in the iMac I really don't see any reason to move if you have a current or previous year model of those machines.
Many have been very curious about the long time without update or hint thereof for the Mac Pro tower. There is a good amount of pent up demand for a newer model but even that number of people may not be sufficient to attract Apple much.
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There are persistent rumors that Apple is going to 'airify' their MacBook Pro line. Following that line of thought, it's assumed that they'll take it to the extreme and not include an ethernet port.
Personally, I think it makes sense that some would think that. But I think they'll realize they'll have trouble calling it a 'pro' laptop without an ethernet port. That said, it is something I'd be double checking for once it's announced.
No harm done.
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Or they could put a dongle in the Lion USB drive and say if it's got the dongle it's licensed, we don't support OSX on non-apple hardware but we're not going to do anything intentionally stop it from running on non-apple hardware so long as it's got the dongle, then just don't make any dick moves as far as hardware drivers go.
Of course this is probably just wishful thinking on my part.
Just think: When Apple announces it and it matches what you said, then you'll be right!
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Why is this even remotely interesting? We know Intel has released Ivy Bridge. We know there are other companies already using Ivy Bridge. Apple's current offerings are a generation or two behind the existing status quo for high-end hardware on the laptop/desktop market. It is a no brainer that, yes, Apple would also use the next generation of hardware, too.
This is not even remotely news worthy (though it might be for macrumours.com or whatever). Now, if they were changing architectures back to PPC or to ARM on the desktop, that might be something worth talking about!
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I personally believe Apple and other companies do this to create the usual buzz. I've heard a few stories where Apple already puts new employees through ridiculous tasks just to see if they can keep secrets. What gets me is that as soon as the latest Apple product comes out, it's like there just HAS to be a rumor or story about the next product that hasn't even gone a full year cycle. Beside every new rumor headline for Apple devices I usually put "It would be nice to have..." in front of it.
A backlit keyboard and an aluminum case are not "Pro" features.
When Apple discontinued the plastic "Macbook" line and kept the aluminum "Macbook Pro" line it could have branded the 13" model "Macbook" and the larger models with performance upgrades "Macbook Pro".
Giving the 13" "Macbook Pro" performance similar to the now-discontinued base model and charging "Pro" prices for cosmetic features was somewhere between greedy and dishonest.
I'll be your candy shop of infinite deliciousity if you'll be my discotheque of endless rump-shaking.
Why not let people choose what they want?
Some people want an optical drive. Some people don't. Some people want a SSD. Some people want a hard drive with 10x the capacity for half the cost.
Gigabit Ethernet is currently faster than any wireless than I know of yet if Apple says "You don't need that" we get dozens of posts saying "They must be right! Apple is genius!"
Apple is not saying "you don't need it". They are saying "most people do not need it, and those that do can still use it".
I have GigE on my current Powerbook. I use it perhaps six times a year. Obviously if they git rid or the port I would not care much, and I am a highly technical user - most users would simply never miss it.
For the very few times I would like GigE I'd either use Thunderbolt or USB adaptors. What is so bad about that, to remove the cost and weight of a component that a huge percentage of your users will not want or need day to day?
why would you give up Gigabit Ethernet for less than a 16th of an inch?
Why would you NOT. It's not like you are gaining only a 16th of an inch. The rumors are that the new Powerbooks across the line get the Air treatment, which means about half the current thickness. That is a HUGE savings in space and weight, especially if you travel or walk with your laptop much and have the 17" model. Removing an ethernet port is just one part of an across the board reduction.
And again, it's not GIVING UP anything. It's just removing it from the base configuration.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The model designation reads "MacBookPro", not "MacBookAir". The redesigned 15" MacBook Pro will almost certainly lose the DVD drive and go all SSD, just like the MacBook Air. That's still air-fication without going to the extreme of losing ethernet (which would have yielded a 15" MacBook Air instead).
HAHAHA.. I'd believe you if I hadn't been stupid and accepted a company laptop as macbook pro before checking that the size of macbook pro I was getting had intel graphics at that time of the year. So in all practicality it's just a macbook(even looks like one, if you'd blacken the Pro it would be very hard to tell the difference) with thunderbolt that I don't do jack shit with. anyhow, they can't go much thinner without losing the ethernet.
besides, it would actually fit _perfectly_ with their plans to sell you a dock/monitor with thunderbolt that had the gigabit ethernet in it. or two, one to home one for work desk.
and it would actually suck bigtime to carry an usb network adapter around.
and why not just call it the macbook? well, so that when you show a chart comparing the two models the names match in length.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
iTunes peaks out at 100% of a single CPU usage in its single threaded mode.
So I'm better off with 1/2 of two processors at 10,500 than 1/4 of 4 processors at 12,252
5,250 crushes 3,083
Any single threaded app wins huge on old gear.
Apple is not Dell. They aren't into "build you own your way". They design quality balanced systems. They drive their entire platform which reduces complexity for software vendors and users. If you want something outside the norm, they have wonderful solution you just pay a premium.
They are not into maximum choice, they are into good choices.
On the current MBPs you can choose SSD or spinning disk. On the Airs the HDDs are a bit of a space problem.