New engine, same soul

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.

The Intel chips are faster and cheaper than the IBM ones, right?

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MacBook, eh? I wonder if the iBook line is done, or if it will get some of these high end goodies.

This thing looks sweet. Time to upgrade, perhaps, if TT will run on it...

Last edited: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 11:52:30 AM

I just looked at ZDNet's overview of Job's keynote- very impressive stuff coming out. New iMacs also available with the Core Duo. Makes me feel a few years behind...

All the previous PPC models are for sale still and will probably be on sale well for a long time.

Reagent your one lucky Mac'er. Hope to see you on the video Apple and putting up soon XD

It'll be interesting to see how fast Rosetta can run PPC apps (such as TT :)) on it.

My guess on Rosetta is that it will be similar in speed to what we have now, but I could be wrong... Maybe a boost for the "old" stuff will be there, too.

NAG NAG NAG! WANT!!!

Last edited: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 7:47:45 PM

Holy sh!t! It's ALREADY out? Can someone confirm this? Time for a little trip to the Apple store!!

^

Stop bragging... *looks at current technological situation and wheeps* :S %)

Feel free to donate any unwanted macs to my classroom... I still have some tray loading iMacs you could replace for me :)

Its 840 pm. Do you know where your credit card is?

WHAT?? Only one USB port?????? XO

OOHHH- FS, G5 Power Mac........
Second revision model, likely in June or July, is sooooooo mine...

@ ĵji

Not one, but two USB ports. One on the left, second on the right.

Last edited: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 9:42:04 PM

Lol
I want EIGHT
well
I guess you could get a hub
it worth the handsome design and superior OS ;)

Its a damn good day in mac land...

The MacBook Pro is released

And...

Google Earth now available for the Mac

PS. Need I mentioned the built in iSight and the Front Row interface and Apple Remote as well as the (about friggin time) awesome MagSafe [Power] Connector.

GDI!!! I need a job!

MAX

The Apple Remote, front row and built in isight have been on the new model iMac G5 a few weeks before christmas.

I know that scytheman has the 17" 1.9 model which I also have and that someone else here, but I cant remember his name has the 2.1Ghz model with 21" screen

Had a great time at MacWorld today! http://supra.planetthinktanks2.com/archives/comm-thread.asp?thread=11496&forum=4

But Pedro? It is new to the laptop. Which I guess means alot to me because I use my laptop as a media center and I watch netflix DVDs on my powerbook every night. Also can you imagine being able to use iSight when traveling or in meetings.... Its hugely different. My excitement is about the addition of this very well known technology.

Anyhoo...
Looking forward to my Birthday

MAX

Lol, I bet your looking forward to your birthday ;)

I get what your saying though. And its only an inch thick! How did they get that camera in there!

Those wizard-like engineers at Apple do amazing things.
There is some distortion with the photo's though...

Oh yes... Eat it PC luvers!

...and one more thing.

Bill Gates runs like a girl.

Lol ^ very funny! :P

EDIT:

Windows Vista is almost ready for the new macs! Intel mac Linux distros are already being developed.

Last edited: Sunday, January 15, 2006 at 11:54:21 AM

[quote]Bill Gates runs like a girl[/quote]

I didn't think Mac users could tell the difference.

Last edited: Sunday, January 15, 2006 at 12:15:29 PM

Pity the fools that just dropped $4,000 on a souped up G4-Powerbook......

... Wait....

I just bought a 17" G4 Powerbook less than a month ago....

Yup, the screen is a couple of inches bigger, but the machine is 4 to 5 times slower????

Pity Me.

It looks cool but $$$ not cheap if you want a cheap fast (P4) 3.1 Ghz look at bearbone systems at newegg . :)

You can do the hardware comparisons and debate 32 bit vs 64 bit all you want and but it doesn't mean too much right now. The question you should ask is : what software will I run?

If it's the standard Apple programs, the Intel Macs are much faster than the G5 iMacs. If it's anything else, the Intels show little if any performance improvements. This will continue to be the case as long as Rosetta is required to allow PowerPC programs to run on Intel.

Adobe has already stated it will not update to the Universal binary until their next scheduled software release. Other big software vendors may follow the same policy. It will probably be mid to late 2007 before all the software vendors complete any conversions to Universal binaries.

By then, all the new Macs will be released, including Quad ???Macs to replace the current PowerMacs. I wonder if they will change the case design on those models?

By the way, I saw AMD hopes to have Quad core chips available sometime in 2007. Does anyone know if Intel has announced a timetable for a similar product?

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Hackers get Windows XP to run on a Mac
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11885495/

Yes, the iMac does Windows
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macword/2006/03/winmac/index.php