Mine will arrive on Monday too! Ah, that's no drama, I wouldn't have picked the 2.6GHz upgrade anyways because 2.4Ghz should be decent enough for quite a long while. The HDD upgrade would have been nice though, on the other hand I went with the stock model HDD mostley because I'm convinced that 5400rpm is fast enough, won't get too hot and therefore becomes more reliable and of course makes less noise.
Does anyone know by the way if upgrading the HDD on your own voids the warranty of the whole MBP?
Just buy now. There is a good chance they will pop Penryn microprocessors into the MBP in January but actually these new chips won't change much. Atleast the January models won't. Here is what I know about them:
- 45 nanometer architecture, prolly said a shrink
- greater L2-Cache around ~6 MiB's
- in January same Front Side Bus Speeds like current 'Merom's' @ 800MHz
- January models will fit on the 'P' Socket (most likely the same motherboard therefore no 800MHz RAM sticks)
- 35 Watt will be required for the cooling system to dissipate (equal to current Merom)
- multiplier ranging from ~10x to ~13x (again equal to Merom)
- Enhanced Intel Dynamic Acceleration Technology, might be a slight improvement or merely a way to do it with quad-core CPU's?
- SSE4 instruction set
You would basically get a shrink of the current CPU with a 2MiBs greater cache - not worth the agonizing waiting if you ask me! Videocard won't change either since these are already slightly clocked down (but still have one of the highest clockrates compared to the 8600m GTs in other notebooks).
Does anyone know by the way if upgrading the HDD on your own voids the warranty of the whole MBP?
Just buy now. There is a good chance they will pop Penryn microprocessors into the MBP in January but actually these new chips won't change much. Atleast the January models won't. Here is what I know about them:
- 45 nanometer architecture, prolly said a shrink
- greater L2-Cache around ~6 MiB's
- in January same Front Side Bus Speeds like current 'Merom's' @ 800MHz
- January models will fit on the 'P' Socket (most likely the same motherboard therefore no 800MHz RAM sticks)
- 35 Watt will be required for the cooling system to dissipate (equal to current Merom)
- multiplier ranging from ~10x to ~13x (again equal to Merom)
- Enhanced Intel Dynamic Acceleration Technology, might be a slight improvement or merely a way to do it with quad-core CPU's?
- SSE4 instruction set
You would basically get a shrink of the current CPU with a 2MiBs greater cache - not worth the agonizing waiting if you ask me! Videocard won't change either since these are already slightly clocked down (but still have one of the highest clockrates compared to the 8600m GTs in other notebooks).
