Re: [Avid-L2] Re: OT: Macbook Pro Upgrade Path?

I prefer my P3-700MHz at 32 ft/sec/sec!

Curt

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Curt Bailey
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On Apr 14, 2010, at 9:11 PM, David Dawkins wrote:

> "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec."
> /Marcus Dolengo/
>
> Steve Mullen wrote:
> > The QM use 45W and are clocked at only 1.6GHz and 1.73GHz. It isn't
> > simply power consumption, it is heat. But, I too expected the 17" to
> > use these true quad parts.
> >
> > The real reason may have been marketing -- could consumers understand
> > why they would replace their current MBP with ones running at "only"
> > 1.6GHz and 1.73GHz?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Steve
> > dvcinlv@me.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Apr 14, 2010, at 6:56 AM, George Loch wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I tend to look at the 15" laptop as a compromise between portability
> >> and workstation-class performance and as so, I don't *expect*
> >> incredible battery life. I want it to be an excellent, productive
> >> computer I can slip in a bag. Until they started shipping the 15" w/
> >> o the express/34 slot, that was what I was getting with the 15" MBP.
> >> Now, it feels more geared towards mobility and less performance.
> >>
> >> I would say that my main disappointment is in the lack of more than
> >> 2 core. I grant you the battery life issue and I am not generally a
> >> proponent of utilizing a desktop cpu in a laptop but, I tend to have
> >> my MBP plugged in most of the time anyway. However, there are 4 core
> >> mobile options, namely the i7-820QM and the i7-720QM. Why didn't
> >> Apple make that a BTO option?
> >>
> >> The other fundamental disappointment was that they only recognize 8
> >> gigs of ram while the architecture allows for 16. With 64bit
> >> arriving substantially, I could really use the extra memory.
> >>
> >> -gl
> >>
> >> On Apr 14, 2010, at 12:19 AM, Steve Mullen wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Sorry -- I used his lament about lack of CORES and followed suit.
> >>>
> >> Did he mean he wished the new MBP used the desktop 4 core chips
> >> which run 8 threads OR did he mean he wished it could run quad
> >> threads.
> >>
> >>> Apple waited for the new 32nm chips because of power consumption
> >>>
> >> concerns. Had they used the 45nm chips, power consumption would have
> >> been much higher.
> >>
> >>> So while we could wish for an iMac's i5 & i7 for their performance
> >>>
> >> -- I'm not sure we would have really been happy long term with them
> >> in a laptop.
> >>
> >>> With hyper threading you'll get 4 (quad) threads in the MBP, yet
> >>>
> >> because of their higher than the 45nm parts clock speeds, when
> >> running only a few threads, we will get higher performance.
> >>
> >>> Of course, this means the new MBP should be fine for V5, but the
> >>>
> >> iMacs may not be supported.
> >>
> >>> Sent from my iPad,
> >>> Steve
> >>>
> >>>
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> David Dawkins
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