How long will they last for?

[MacsAreBetter\]

The current MBA computers seem amazing; but how long will their C2D processors still be fast and coping with the latest software?

I'm talking;
Future revisions of Creative Suit (photoshop, etc)
Updates to iLife and iWork
Gaming on OSX and Windows (minimum settings etc)

Also the graphics card; how long will it be dominant on the market for?

 

[celticpride678]

Few years probably.

 

[AMDGAMER]

The C2D processors are awesome. Compare them to centrino mobile processors that everyone was going crazy for a few years ago...talking night and day.

 

[oakie]

The C2D processors are awesome. Compare them to centrino mobile processors that everyone was going crazy for a few years ago...talking night and day.

"centrino" was not a processor. the Centrino brand name was for the complete chipset and CPU that accompanied it; a solution that was based on the Pentium 4 and designed for mobile applications.

 

[73CortinaV8]

most software (except maybe gaming) hasn't really caught up with hardware.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say C2D will have a usable life of 5 to 6 years.

I have a 4+ year old Thinkpad with a T7200 Core 2 Duo that I still do heavy development on.

With the fattened up caches and hyperthreading and smaller die size, the current C2D should scream.