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

"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
>
>
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> 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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