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Official "Waiting for Santa Rosa" thread.
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Santa Rosa is Shipping
As it was stated before, the SR platform (Crestline chipset) is already shipping to manufacturers.
So, we will see a new MBP at WWDC at the latest (hopefully sometime next month).
Hickman
As it was stated before, the SR platform (Crestline chipset) is already shipping to manufacturers.
ArsTechnica said:
So, we will see a new MBP at WWDC at the latest (hopefully sometime next month).
Hickman
I will be buying a MBP in October when Penryn is out and all Macs are equipped with Leopard. Hopefully they release a more portable 13.3'' widescreen MBP between now and then.
Due to the amount of months it usually takes to update the Macbook Pro 7-10 I guess it is a good assumption that the line will be updated at WWDC but no one can be 100% that it will be especially when the iMac and Mac Mini have been so long overdue for an update, possibly because they too will be receiving the Santa Rosa chip sets but, for some reason I have a feeling the iMac and the Mac Mini will definitely see an update before the Macbooks and Macbook Pros, I can only hope that the Macbook Pros are updated soon after. Or maybe Apple will go nuts and update their whole line at WWDC with New Macbook Pros, new Mac Minis, and new iMacs. I am actually thinking of getting a mini as well as a Macbook Pro.
If they don't update the Macbook Pro soon, it really is going to start becoming a lot less "Pro".
Good point. Like everyone else I am waiting patently , yea right, for an update cause I can't wait to buy my first mac. But like I said, I don't think, especially that I head the iMac is Steves favorite Mac, that they'll update the Macbook Pro before the next iMac especially because it's around 50 days over due on the Buyer's Guide page. So if anything they will both be updated at the same time.
http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebooks/review/2007/04/17/Intel-Santa-Rosa-Revealed/p1
There's something to wet your whistle santa rosa fans. An insight as to what to expect if you're still left in the dark.
There's something to wet your whistle santa rosa fans. An insight as to what to expect if you're still left in the dark.
That's a great article and I recommend everyone read it to clear the air of ignorance.
Also, Apple likes to get in on the school buying season which starts in late April, so I'd say these updates aren't far off considering how long its been since a revision and the fact that review units for SR are arriving this week.
Yeah, I hope they update the MacBooks/Pros soon. I'm dying to buy my first Mac...
Yeah... Apple's lack of concrete info is a serious slap in the face to customers and potential cutomers. They need to release roadmaps & let people know what the fck is going on. They should know by now that casual buyers (ie. the iPhone demographic) are going to buy a computer whenever they feel like they need one. And only the nerds like us are going to hold another 2 months or whatever because of a new chipset.
Apple could keep 2 sets of people a lot happier if they kicked down some real info, instead of repeatedly 5h1tkicking their loyal supporters.
That line is going to break for a lot of people very soon, I feel.
Because when you don't know whether or not it's 2 months, or 12 months, and you're a first-time Mac buyer, getting a Centrino Pro Compaq (or whatever) is looking just as good. Vista is released. It's not XP, and that's all a lot of us really care about.
Apple should realize that a billion XP users are fed up and looking for a change. Either lay it out, or expect a lot of people's money going back into Intel/Microsoft configurations.
Apple's window is closing ridiculously fast.
It's all so annoying.
Im also waiting for the new updates so that i can purchase my first Mac...
So, do you guys think that the MBP's will be updated this june? I'm just wonderin' myself......
No, when the Macbooks are updated with Santa Rosa, the price will most likely remain the same.
V. Good chance that MBP's will get a refresh in June.
In terms of the prices, it is expected that the prices of the MB and MBP will stay roughly the same for low, med and high models. Maybe plus or minus one or two hundred, but if it is more expensive, the hardware will reflect it.
After reading that article, there are two things that struck me. Firstly, X3100?? I thought it was called X3000! Have they changed the name because its a new version for mobile platforms, being different from the X3000 used for desktops?
And most importantly, I didn't know that Santa Rosa Meroms would use the speed boost active thingumijig that shuts down one core, and boosts the clock speed of the other up for single threaded apps! I thought that would be coming with Penryn! That's awesome!
So, if a doubling of clock speed means the core uses four times more power, and as the document says that when one is throttled up and the other is turned off the power usage is the same, what does that mean for the clock speed??? By my calculations, a 2.4 GHz Merom core will get a boost to 3.4 GHz for single thread apps!!! That's insane!
Ah well, thx for this link, it's boosted my opinion of Santa Rosa a lot, and it was already high to begin with. Now I really, really want a SR MBP : (
And most importantly, I didn't know that Santa Rosa Meroms would use the speed boost active thingumijig that shuts down one core, and boosts the clock speed of the other up for single threaded apps! I thought that would be coming with Penryn! That's awesome!
So, if a doubling of clock speed means the core uses four times more power, and as the document says that when one is throttled up and the other is turned off the power usage is the same, what does that mean for the clock speed??? By my calculations, a 2.4 GHz Merom core will get a boost to 3.4 GHz for single thread apps!!! That's insane!
Ah well, thx for this link, it's boosted my opinion of Santa Rosa a lot, and it was already high to begin with. Now I really, really want a SR MBP : (
Will the new MBs and MBPs include the Intel Turbo Cache flash RAM on their motherboards? Along with the better integrated GPU this seems to be the biggest upgrade, but I think it's optional...
I'm pretty sure I read a rumour somewhere that Apple would not be using Turbo Memory. But then again, this is Apple we're talking about, and they seem to like letting out BS just so they can surprise us. Also, why wouldn't Apple use it? It increases speed, and increases battery life. That's like Apple's design philosophy in a nutshell.
I feel confident we'll see TM in MBPs and most likely MBs too.
It's designed for Vista though. DLL hell etc etc. By caching all the small (i.e. where seek time>read time) regularly paged system files onto flash you get a benefit because of the way Vista works.
Now - Apple will be designing it's own motherboards and they may or maynot decide to include turbo-flash in it. If they do, perhaps they will find a use for it (hibernating perhaps?) - but OSX is such a different animal to Vista that the reson d'etre for Turboflash in the WinTel arena doesn't transfer immediately to the Apple world.
Doug
From reading that article, im not sure if the Merom revision will have that technology as the article is just about the SR platform release in general. Perhaps the author is talking about the penryn but didnt specifically state it.
YYYEEEEAAAA!!! If that is true the wait for SR is definitely well worth it!!! Tha sounds amazing!