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Santa Rosa to Penryn Chips?

JonnyBravo

JonnyBravo

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Hi all

I'm looking to purchase a Macbook Pro on top of the current Mac Pro G5 I currently have. The reason for this thread is when I bought the Mac Pro, I missed the Intel Chips by 4 months. I was kinda pissed (well, just a little) b/c having that flexibility of running Boot Camp and some (keyword: "some") Windows apps would have been nice. Plus, soon after that...all applications were being rewritten to handle the Intel chips.

Anyway, I keep hearing about the new Penryn chips that are likely to come out 2008. I doubt the change will be as dramatic as moving from a G5 to Intel.

I guess my real question is, besides speed and better performance due to the improved architecture, is there something major in the Penryn chips that the current Santa Rosa chips may not be able to handle?

FYI: I work with graphic and video editing.
 
From the Intel site:

Penryn is the code name for Intel’s Next Generation Intel® Core™ 2 Family processor microarchitecture. It is also the name of the industry’s first 45 nm microprocessor. It is an improvement on the Core Microarchitecture introduced last year. It delivers more performance at the same clock speed compared to our Core 2 Duo processors. It is a dual core product with a shared 6 MB L2 cache.

Intel’s 45 nm High-K Metal Gate Silicon Technology allows Penryn to run at higher clock frequency than its predecessor. It features 47 new Intel SSE instructions designed to enhance Media, Graphic and Gaming. We have measured >20% perf improvement on existing games compared to today’s fastest dual core processors, and more than 40 percent for gaming and video encoding with Intel SSE4 optimized video encoders. But of course, as with any performance claims “Your Mileage May Vary”.

Penryn-based processors provide faster divide performance with a Fast Radix-16 Divider, roughly doubling the divider speed over previous generations for applications such as scientific computation.

Enhancements to Intel Virtualization Technology speed up virtual machine transition (entry/exit) times by an average of 25 to 75 percent.
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http://blogs.intel.com/technology/2007/04/penryn.html
 
JonnyBravo said:
Hi all

I'm looking to purchase a Macbook Pro on top of the current Mac Pro G5 I currently have. The reason for this thread is when I bought the Mac Pro, I missed the Intel Chips by 4 months. I was kinda pissed (well, just a little) b/c having that flexibility of running Boot Camp and some (keyword: "some") Windows apps would have been nice. Plus, soon after that...all applications were being rewritten to handle the Intel chips.

Anyway, I keep hearing about the new Penryn chips that are likely to come out 2008. I doubt the change will be as dramatic as moving from a G5 to Intel.

I guess my real question is, besides speed and better performance due to the improved architecture, is there something major in the Penryn chips that the current Santa Rosa chips may not be able to handle?

FYI: I work with graphic and video editing.
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I don't want to hijack but you have a Power Mac, not a Mac Pro. A Mac Pro has Intel processors, a Power Mac has the g5 processor(s).
 
since no one else has really answered your question, no there will not be that big of a difference, and no one knows when Apple will release MBPs with them, so if you want a laptop now, buy it now, if you want to wait 6 months, you got a chance that they will be released but like almost all apple products, no one knows when they will be released or updgraded
 
Jiddick ExRex said:
I don't want to hijack but you have a Power Mac, not a Mac Pro. A Mac Pro has Intel processors, a Power Mac has the g5 processor(s).
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Hey Jiddick...you're right...my bad...what was I thinking? :)

squeeks said:
since no one else has really answered your question, no there will not be that big of a difference, and no one knows when Apple will release MBPs with them, so if you want a laptop now, buy it now, if you want to wait 6 months, you got a chance that they will be released but like almost all apple products, no one knows when they will be released or updgraded
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Thanks for the response and I agree. I certainly don't want to wait for the latest innovations if I can do everything with the current.
 
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