Intel Mobile Core i7, the future core of the new iMac and MacBook. Will we see next?
Intel has launched its new processors, Intel Mobile Core i7. Based on the Westmere microarchitecture, whose main feature reduced power consumption, four cores, two threads per processor thanks to HyperThreading and the possibility, depending on the cores used, raising the frequency of using technology Turbo Boost.
The new Core i7 Mobile are fabricandos with 32nm technology and the three models available are: Core i7 Extreme i7 920XM a 2 GHz Core i7 i7 820QM to 1.73 GHz and the Core i7 720QM to 1.6 GHz as we have discussed, these frequencies are the ones that work all the cores at a time but if only one can reach the 3.2 GHz thanks to Turbo Boost.
And what does this mean for the Apple world. Well, possibly becoming the short term at the heart of the future and why not iMac, MacBook family.
As you begin to read, many ways echoed the possibility that Apple will refresh the iMac and MacBook soon. This as always rumors, but analysts who have received comments on orders of buses, memories, etc …
The truth is that if we analyze the different ranges of desktops and laptops is not unreasonable to think of an early update. Thanks to Mac’s buyers see as the iMac is the end of its “life cycle”, from March 2009 and maintain design features. And despite being in portable mid-cycle could get some extra face to the Christmas campaign.
Therefore, if the iMac renewing short-term bet by two possibilities: a simple physical redesign and maintenance of virtually the same technical features with a new lower price, as we are accustomed lately, or the introduction of the new Core i7 Mobile which would keep prices and provide a team with a single power without sacrificing the design reduced because the temperature would not be a problem.
In the notebook is more difficult to clarify ideas. And if I had to bet something would be a slight renewal of the white polycarbonate MacBook. The white MacBook remains a design that already has three years and even with its good performance and price is at a point where most users prefer to put a little extra and buy the MacBook Pro 13 “.
But if Apple takes advantage of all the development made in the Pro range, produces a thinner team even with the same technical features and a lower price could be a hard blow to the PC market and even the NetBook. Currently, most manufacturers have an initial range between 500 and 600 euros to be compared with a MacBook is not no big deal. Imagine a 700 euros MacBook’s environment, I think that would wipe sales.
What is clear is that soon we will see how the power of Mobile Core i7 flood the Mac, giving a power that Snow Leopard will squeeze even more. I believe the first Mac in miros will incorporate the new iMac because, despite its lower power and heat generated, the battery of a laptop would be greatly diminished if we turn on every processor possibilities. In tests conducted by other means say that by using the Turbo Boost the battery lasts an hour excasa. But hey, if manufacturers like Eurocomm have already released notebooks with these mics why Apple does not.
Anyway, my intention is not to create anxiety to see the new teams or wait for updates later be disappointed. If today you are thinking of buying a new Apple computer will tell you only if you need a Mac now compralo quietly, if not expected.
