Intels in Powerbooks

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When will there be Intel cpus in powerbooks and how many ghz will the procs run at?
 
google is your friend... none of us here know any more than what has or hasn't been reported since the mactel announcement
 
june next year is when we will see the first intel based macs according to the keynote. They will be in the low end machines first, so don't hold your breath.
 
these clock speeds are just estimates from the euro version of macworld but here are the speeds:

Mac Mini: 1.6ghz Single Core Yonah

iBook: 1.6ghz Single Core Yonah

PowerBook: 2.0ghz Dual-Core Yonah

iMac: 2.0ghz Dual-Core Yonah

Power Mac 3.6ghz Dual Core Conroe
 
How can you speculate about the Intel Power Macs? They're 18-24 months away...
 
because he's doing exactly that, speculating. "To engage in a course of reasoning often based on inconclusive evidence" no truth necessarily, just a shot in the dark.
 
There are no G5 Powerbooks because the G5 runs too hot to be used in a mobile platform.
 
I don't think the PowerMacs are going Intel until they release a Xeon processor based on the Pentium M architecture. It just doesn't make sense to switch to a NetBurst-based processor when you're switching because of performance per watt.

As for the PowerBooks, january is actually a possibility, because that's supposedly when the Yonah is coming out. Another obvious thing is that the iBooks will run Celerons Ms and the PowerBooks Pentium Ms.
 
i'll say a prayer tonight that the celeron never makes it into any mac products. years of experience with the budget minded performance lacking pos have left nothing but bitter tastes in my mouth for not having chosen a considerably quicker (feeling) lower speed but higher cached and more capable p4. never metnion the celeron in Apple products again, mr morty :D

-esr
 
The Celeron M is a rather capable processor. The only difference between the Celerons and Pentiums have been a smaller cache (and lately, no 64-bit extensions). Since the Pentium M has a hefty amount of cache (2 megabytes in the Yonah, I believe), and actually needs LESS cache than the Pentium 4, a Celeron M isn't all that bad.
 
The Celeron M may itself be a decent processor, but it isn't decent enough for Apple to not want to milk the G4 for all it's worth before going to it, should they decide to at all.

The 7448 G4 is already in production at Freescale, it runs even cooler than the 7447A, supports a 200MHz bus and double the size of the L2 cache to 1MB. Should provide a very solid performance boost over the 7447A and it's fully pin compatible, so I'm banking on Apple using it before they move either the iBook or PowerBook lines to Intel.
 
And really, January is not a possibility. Apple has set a time table for the switch to begin and it doesn't start until next summer. As much as some people may want to see Intel Macs now (though I don't see why), nothing is going to make it happen any faster. We're stil 8-10 months off.
 
there was a new G5 processor that came out that runs cooler, but it would require a redesign of the logic board if i remember correctly. so people are counting that out.


lets not forget the "great powerpc products in the pipeline" that steve talked about. who knows what that could be. as for intels in powerbooks, my wallet is open and waiting. i would love to see apple release the first macintels for the pro line, but i doubt it.
 
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