You are using a Duron 700MHz but are thinking a CPU atleast 8 times faster isn't enough?
I for one do NOT want them to include a bluray, I don't want to pay like 700 dollar or so for that, what a piece of crap, totally useless. As an option I guess it would be ok, but would you buy it? I doubt it.
Your current cpu doesn't have SSE2, does it? Do it even have SSE?
Also OS X are built for SSE3 CPUs, but they can't build it with a lowest common instructionset of SSE4 later because that would make it not run on older machines, thought they can make use of SSE4 anyway. But I doubt SSE4 is that important? If you are waiting until november I guess you can wait to the next revision, just remember it might be around another halfyear away.I would be intrested in if you could tell me which ones.
"First is a new radix-16 divider that offers a 2x performance improvement on division operations vs. Core 2 Duo. The fast divider also speeds up a range of operations that depend on the divider hardware, like the square root function. Penryn's SQRT operation is 4x the speed of Core 2.
The other major back-end improvement is support for the SSE4 extensions, a group of 50 new vector instructions aimed at speeding up media and other data-parallel applications. SSE4 will be paired with a new "Super Shuffle Engine," a full-width, single-pass, 128-bit shuffle unit. This will enable Penryn's vector hardware to perform 128-bit shuffle operations (e.g. pack, unpack, packed shift) in a single clock cycle. The beefed up shuffle capabilities will help Penryn align incoming vector data in the SSE registers so that the execution hardware can go to work on it.
Intel claims that SSE4, in combination with other new features that I'll describe shortly, will offer Penryn a performance improvement of as much as 40 percent over Core 2 Duo on some software like video codecs, and as much as 20 percent on games."
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos...sse4-faster-virtualization-bigger-caches.html
so 20-40% faster if you wait say 6months or more.
But then remember that computer technology are supposed to become 100% faster each 18 months.
The new cache seems smarter, but 6MB isn't that much of an improvement over 4MB is it? I can understand from say 128kB to 512kB. Thought CPUs have become faster so I guess they need more cache, but the cache have probably become faster aswell.
Anyway 2x faster dividers are cool, SSE4 might be cool for whatever application types makes use of it. I guess for OS X it may be some video codec, but it's not like the performance of that will be a deal breaker for me.Why would it be faster for "any app"? It's not like if you build whatever app with support for the latest gen x86, mmx, built in fpu, all versions of sse and it magically becomes much faster. It must need it for something aswell. Adium won't get much faster because it's compiled using SSE4 instructions ... (not that it will be built requiring that anyway.)
I don't know what montevina is either, but once released you can just aswell wait for the next chipset revision aswell...
I few years ago I waited for socket AM2 instead of 939, then it came and the new AMD cpus where like -2-4% faster than the old ones.. Oh, great!
Also you can wait for nv9800 to get used... and quad core, or octo core and radeon hd 4800 xtx 8GB.
1TB ram would be nice to, and 200TB flashdrives.
