Intel News
Although it hasn’t made its way to Intel’s Press Release section of their website, TG Daily is claiming that they’ve quietly launched two Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) of their mobile Core 2 Duo platform (Merom) Specifications: Intel U7500: 1.06GHz Intel U7600: 1.20GHz Frontside Bus: 533MHz … Read more
There’s an article at PC Magazine about the new direction Intel is going with their mobile CPUs and chipsets. They are splitting up their consumer and business/professional markets and changing the requirements for the stickers that go on the machines. Excerpt from the article: A … Read more
Last week Intel had a gathering/press conference for the European media in regards to its upcoming Core 2 Duo CPUs, slated to come out later this year. Reg Hardware ran a few benchmarks. on the “Conroe” (desktop) version of the Core 2 Duo, although “Merom”, the mobile/notebook version was also demonstrated by Intel (no benchmarks were allowed of the notebook version). Nonetheless, the notebook version should parallel the desktop version when compared to the original Core Duo released earlier this year.
The CPU tested was the E6700, a 2.67GHz CPU with a 1066MHz Front-Side Bus, and it compared very favorably to the AMD Athlon 64 FX-62. Intel and others have claimed the notebook version of the Core 2 Du0 will be 20-25% faster than current Core Duo offerings, while using the same amount of power and generating the same heat (something that’s impressive in and of itself), and if the desktop benchmarks hold up, there’s no reason to believe the notebook version won’t offer a major increase in performance when it rolls out.
Last week Intel updated it’s 2006 roadmap for Intel’s upcoming mobile CPU offerings. This is in reference to the CPU series unofficially called “Merom” and officially called “Core 2 Duo”. According to Daily Tech, no shipping date has set, however pricing for the full lineup is in place. The Core 2 Duo lineup starts at $209 for a 1.66GHz CPU (5500) with 2MB of cache and goes all the way up to a 2.33GHz CPU with 4MB of cache (the 7600 CPU) and a price tag of $637.
HardMac.com has a comparison of the Apple MacBook“>Apple MacBook with other Apple notebooks of the past.
Something that has generated a lot of buzz – CreativeMac has published some benchmarks using Apple’s Final Cut Studio. Keeping in mind that Final Cut Studio is considered to be a “professional” application, and is not targeted at the same audience that the MacBook is Final Cut Studio is a suite of applications for video, motion graphics, and audio manipulation/editing and is well regarded in the movie industry, and it is a Univeral Binary (it will run well on either PowerPC or Intel-based Macs).