tufty wrote:Displays and intel processors, you mean :)
Nah, the core duo is pretty damn good for that, for what you get out of it.
It certainly is. There are more than a few benchmarks where this 31W
processor outperforms the 100W 970MP. Right now for mainstream
processors Core Duo is the performance/power king, but it would be
nice if Apple did offer a LV or ULV option. Just to rub salt in the wounds
of the PowerPC fans. ;)
Hey, I wasn't knocking it. Well, maybe a bit :) The same anandtech report that I pulled the 37w figure from also showed that at full load the core duo was drawing slightly less than the 1.5Ghz G4.
To be honest, for any processor of that spec to be pulling such a low load is fucking astounding. Yay progress.
Oh, and yeah. I'd like to know the keyboard's not shit, too. My old PBG4 is begging to be retired.
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Went into Bluewater Apple store today, and had a peek at the new macbook. Its really very nice, and for the price I can sacrifice a decent graphics chip - the performance should be pretty good in all other areas, and I don't use it for gaming on a mac anyway.
Only pisser is that if you dual boot it and play any games that way, you may be in for a dissapointment I guess.
Keyboard looks odd, but feels great to use. I think I'm going to start saving - by the time merom gets popped in one, should be ready...
Surfr wrote:How the hell do Apple manage it? They manage to develop and release and ship worldwise, a new product without any real public knowledge at all.
Minutes after the websiets reported these things had been released, there are pics on flickr of people at apple stores buying the bastards.
Amazing, I reckon.
I've always wondered that, they have the odd leak or two but if you consider the thousands of people involved in designing, manufacturing and retailing these products who all need considerable up front knowledge of them it's amazing they still manage to keep such a tight lid on it.
They have 2 slots don't they? And they come with 2 SO DIMMS in the 13"
Been round this road so many times
Feel like it's skin is part of mine
This taste of milk is almost gone
Still got my shame, but not for long
Been wrong so many times before
But never quite like this
Heard all, in the rain
But the rain all turned to piss
Because it's doing some kind of interleaved access, 2x512 is the best way, though it may be cheaper to get a single gig stick at the expense of some performance, depends what you need really.
Checking crucials website, it seems 2x512 is cheaper anyway, by about £10. Strangely it's also cheaper to buy 2 512MB modules as opposed to a kit containing 2 512MB modules.
