What do you think, should I buy in the next 2 months or wait another 8-10 for leopard and new models?
solafekxela said:What do you think, should I buy in the next 2 months or wait another 8-10 for leopard and new models?
pianodude123 said:As soon as meroms are released in the notebooks, BUY BUY BUY!!
solafekxela said:What do you think, should I buy in the next 2 months or wait another 8-10 for leopard and new models?
Alag28 said:dont!!! ddont buy the first batches of the memrons...just get a lappie now..there really nice.
dmw007 said:How would a first generation Merom powered laptop be worse than a first generation Yonah based laptop?![]()
Alag28 said:how would buying a 1 week build memron with high tendencies to have kinks and hardware/software errors better than saving a headache on a already awesome machine macbook/macbook pro with excess power to do whatever u want (as a student like me that is that will be using office apps most of the time and internet surfing)
dats the better question!!
BlizzardBomb said:Firstly, its not Memron. It's Merom and it always has been.
Secondly, why would a processor like the Merom have kinks? Did the iMac Core Duo have kinks when it debuted with the Yonah? No. Try to do a little research next time.![]()
pianoman said:i would buy now. it doesn't make sense to wait so long for leopard or a faster processor, when you probably won't even notice the difference in processor speed, and if you do, it will be minimal.
Alag28 said:how would buying a 1 week build memron with high tendencies to have kinks and hardware/software errors better than saving a headache on a already awesome machine macbook/macbook pro with excess power to do whatever u want (as a student like me that is that will be using office apps most of the time and internet surfing)
dats the better question!!
JMies419 said:Merom may be nice to have over Yonah..just because it is NEWER. But I think the main reason to wait for the merom is to simply see if Apple is going to re-design the MBP case design, fix airport problems, so on and so on.![]()
Thomas Harte said:I've said it in other threads, and I'm going to say it here. I think the wait for a Merom upgrade is a little weird. Speedwise, real world tests show something like a 5-15% improvement. The 64bit thing is easy to overstate too. All it really means is a few extra registers and a whole lot more addressable RAM. If you're worried about how many registers you have then stick with PowerPC. Addressable RAM is the main thing.
32 bit processors can only handle a total of 4 GB. Inevitably the system is going to start wanting more than that (in much the same was as people consider 1 GB about the comfortable minimum for running the OS nowadays, when ten years ago people probably would have said 128 MB for similar comfort) and before too long individual apps are going to want more than that. Because of the way virtual memory is handled on modern OSs, it isn't even really possible to pretend there is more RAM. But the current MacBooks are limited to 2 GB total anyway, and that's unlikely to change with a Merom revision.
My tip is wait for as long as you don't need a new machine, but as suggested above keep your eye on the Apple Refurb Store. I had budgeted to get a MacBook this month or next and was half-waiting to see when a refresh would come. Instead I bought a refurb MacBook Pro just this week (hasn't even been delivered yet). The "old" 2 Ghz machine (i.e. pre-speed bump, same as the current 2 Ghz machine but with 1 GB RAM in a single SO-DIMM, the 100 GB HDD option and 256 MB of VRAM) is currently available at 30% off its original price and less than £100 more than the regular MacBook equipped with the same speed CPU, same size/speed hard disk and amount of RAM (and as two SO-DIMMs in the MacBook, so more expensive to upgrade). It's about £3 less than the equivalent black MacBook.
I think that the clamour of Apple rumour sites combined with the oxygen of Intel's very public and PR'd road map gives a very warped idea about the sense of purchases. Sudden cut offs in support and usefulness of older Macintoshes are very rare, and if we see one in the next few years it's going to be dropping support for PowerPC. And judging by the 68k timeline, that won't be for half a decade.
I think it's funny because the people that actually care enough about performance to really be bothered by exactly which side of a particular refresh they are on are probably the same people that are going to ditch the hardware long before it becomes unusable by anybody else's standards anyway.
Alag28 said:wth are u talking about? i said high tendencies!! not a fact that it will have problems.? buying any product when it first debuts is always a gamble.
how bout u tell me why "merom" wont have any problems when i comes out? wha makes u so sure?
Thomas Harte said:I've said it in other threads, and I'm going to say it here. I think the wait for a Merom upgrade is a little weird. Speedwise, real world tests show something like a 5-15% improvement. The 64bit thing is easy to overstate too. All it really means is a few extra registers and a whole lot more addressable RAM. If you're worried about how many registers you have then stick with PowerPC. Addressable RAM is the main thing.
I think it's funny because the people that actually care enough about performance to really be bothered by exactly which side of a particular refresh they are on are probably the same people that are going to ditch the hardware long before it becomes unusable by anybody else's standards anyway.
Alag28 said:i think im starting to believe the real difference between a yonah and merom is the "peace of mind" that u have something newer.