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17:19 - Coming soon to a desktop near me
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1989018,00.asp
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Sounds to me like the Core Duo 2-based Macs, when they arrive, will be as big a leap over the Intel Core ones as the Intel Core ones were over the G5.
65 watts? And performance that makes all the AMD chips keel over with the dry heaves? I'll sign up for a little of that. I doubt this means Core Duo 2s will be showing up in MacBook Pros anytime soon, but even underclocked they ought to mop the floor with the current generation. Intel Core, we hardly knew ye...
I have to wonder whether we ought not to expect to see Conroe-based Mac Pros within the next few weeks (or at the WWDC Leopard premiere)... though I'm sure I'm not the only person to whom this has occurred. I also wonder, though, whether this is what Steve really had in mind when plotting the Intel switch: Intel Core by itself was nice, but the switch only really made sense with another great leap forward in the offing, just a few months later.
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Brian Tiemann
