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Nov 10, 08 - 11:38 am Comment from: shen

i7 powerbooks tuesday?

" even its own Core 2 chips can hardly keep up with the new architecture"

Is this what passes these days for technical reporting?

Nov 10, 08 - 12:10 pm Comment from: Tiger

Snappy, anyone?

Fast processors only, not fast computer make.

Everything else of a computer must also be fast. Bus, memory controller, hard drives, RAM and so on.

Then of course is OS/software bloat.

We already have more than enough speed than we need.

Unless your a 3D gamer (no more for Mac's, PS3 rules) or doing HD rendering (which you need CPU speed and Dells/IBM's are cheaper and Linux is a faster more customizeable OS), more performance for consumers is nearly worthless today.

It's really sad that Apple's computer market is disappearing, maybe why the iPhone now...

sigh...

@Raving...

You are nuts. Mac market share is growing incredibly fast. Just calm down and step back from the keyboard.

Nov 10, 08 - 12:24 pm Comment from: Sixvodkas

@Raving MacHead

In your fever deluded dreams!

I suggest pulling your head from your arse cavity and start sucking on hard sales figures instead.

Apple Mac COMPUTERS sold per quarter are smashing all prior figures, and it's a trend that's been in the making for several years.

IBM doesn't make personal computers anymore (sold their assets to Lenovo, who is TANKING), and Dell?
Be for real, Dell is a has been that's shutting down factories and LAYING OFF workers BECAUSE their CHEAP computers HAVE NO MARGIN.

Last thing?
Last I looked, the #1 selling *NIX on planet Earth is Mac OSX, not Linux.

Yeah, just like Bill Gates said we'd never need more than 64K memory. Build the speed. We'll figure out what to do with it!

While Linux on a PC may be slightly faster and cost a bit less for HD production, you would have pry Final Cut and Motion out of my cold dead fingers. More than enough reason for my HD production to stay Mac based.

One of the more interesting features of this new chip from Intel is that it has built in memory controller. There is no front side bus to worry about as a choke point.

Combine the new i7 Xeon based chips with 8 cores each (x 2) plus next gen GPGPUs and Snow Leopard = An unprecedented level of performance only available previously on $300k turnkey systems.

Even more HD production to migrate to Apple.

Raving Machead is Zunetang.

Seems you have some typo problems..... After reading your posts on other threads today I can only guess that Raving MacHead = Raving CRACKHead

@MacHead

"We already have more than enough speed than we need."

Maybe you have more than enough speed than you currently need.

But my boy's grandparents are now using consumer level HD camcorders. As a matter of fact, the consumer AVCHD or HDV formats actually takes MORE processing power to work with than ProRes HQ, DVCProHD or 35Mb MPEG2. So in some sense, consumers actually need MORE performance to work with the current crop of consumer camcorders.

Intel, nice of u 2 promo your new chip but until i can buy it in a Mac, it doesn't really mean anything to me.

Nov 10, 08 - 02:13 pm Comment from: Cubert

Well, RavingMacHead at least got this one right:

"Fast processors only, not fast computer make."

Just look at my 1.5 GHz G4 PowerBook as an example.

I'm waiting for software to finally catch up with advances in hardware.

I hope these land in the new 17" MBP sometime next year.

I can smell snappiness!

Nov 10, 08 - 06:10 pm Comment from: SixnaHalfFeet

I think RavingMacHead lost his snappiness.

ravingdickhead GO AWAY. you`re a waste of space, oxypen and spr m.

meant to write oxygen

OXYPEN - a writer who insists on writing about things that are obvious or already stated.


...and Raving Machead just wanted attention - why else would he write such nonsense?

Nov 10, 08 - 09:33 pm Comment from: TomBoy

Pssst...don't encourage trolls by engaging or acknowledging them. A troll without an audience loses purpose and goes home.

He is correct that a fast processor is only a fast processor. I'm not sure what his point is though because in order to test the processor you need a computer built around it. Would somebody tell me how the reviewers found out how much faster i7 is, than Core 2, without a computer and OS to run the tests on? Yeah, didn't think so. Shut up troll.

Whatever though, he obviously doesn't know what he's talking about anyway. i7 may only be the processor, but it is not the only new thing to come from Intel in this latest AMD b*tch slap. It's only part of a bigger picture that moves the memory controller to the CPU, implements DDR3 memory with triple-channel capabilities, ditches the FSB for a much faster Quick Path Interconnect and more.

The real true statement is, "Intel, nice of u 2 promo your new chip but until i can buy it in a Mac, it doesn't really mean anything to me."

I've been holding off my Mac Pro purchase for when Apple moves past the FB RAM. When will we see a pair of these puppies heating up the inside of an Apple tower? Now that will be snappy.