New Macbook models with Leopard launch?

[hamsterburger]

Rumours seem to indicate that Apple will release new Macbookpro and IMac models with the launch of Leopard in spring, but what about the Macbooks?

I’m hoping for the following in a new Macbook:

Upgrade to the new Santa Rosa platform from Intel with:
-Higher frequency Core 2 Merom socket P CPU
-Intel Mobile 965 Express chipset
-Better graphics with either GMA 3000 or preferably GMA X3000
-Choice of non-glossy display
-Slimed down size (under 5lbs)

What do you guys think? Is any of this at all likely? What are you hoping for in the next Macbook?

 

[andrewmulligan]

so you're looking for more of an ultra-portable?
there have been rumors about an ultra-portable for months.

 

[iPray]

Exactly what I am hoping for.. I hope they will release the Leopard OS soon and I hope they will be installed into all new Macs. My dream (and it is probably highly unlikely) is for them to release a Macbook that has the new Leopard OS as well as the new Santa Rosa chipset. Maybe it might happen or maybe not, but if anyone has any thoughts on what we think.. please post!

 

[dornoforpyros]

please note, MR is not a wishing well. Wishing for a fictional product does not make it real.

However if you really want that 12" Macbook I may suggest some of the following:

1) Tap your ruby red heals together and say "there's nothing quite like a sub notebook, there's nothing quite like a sub notebook"

2) Pray to Jesus/God/Alah/Zuez for Apple to release a sub notebook

3) Wait till Christmas and go sit on Santa's knee and ask him to get the elves to make a sub notebook

4) Have a feng shui master rearrange your house so that the cosmos will align and cause Mr.Jobs to release a sub notebook


I hope these tips help, and while your at it why not put some effort into getting the wide screen iPod, mid level tower and the return of the newton as well, I know some people are wishing for those products as well.

 

[Skrilla™]

not going to happen, book it!

 

[Hyuga]

As far as I remember, Intel was saying that X3000 will not be available to mobile platforms (atleast for now).

Mobile counterpart is (santa rosa) 3000 without T&L & 3.0 shaders.

The Q965 and Q963 chipsets use GMA 3000. This is a cut-down version of the GMA X3000, as used in the G965 chipset. The 3000 is similar to the GMA 950 in that Vertex Shaders and T&L are run by CPU, and only supporting Pixel Shader 2.0. Hardware video acceleration such as IDCT MPEG-2 acceleration, ProcAmp (video stream independent colour correction), VC-1 decoding are missing, but they could have been implemented in drivers as pixel shader programs. Only Q965 retains dual independent display support.

The 946GZ chipset also includes an IGP likewise dubbed the GMA 3000. Early reports based on engineering samples suggested that 946G is simply a 90nm die shrink of the 945G, and its GMA 3000 is only an overclocked GMA950 to 667 MHz[1]. However, Intel 946GZ datasheet showed it is the same GMA 3000 used in Q963, which has the faster DVO port, and without dual independent display support.

A mobile version is planned for the Santa Rosa platform (Q2 2007.) It will be clocked at 400 MHz to save power and reduce heat.