“You think those new Sandy Bridge MacBook Pros are beasts? Just wait a couple years,” John Brownlee reports for Cult of Mac. “That’s when Apple will be able of releasing bleeding edge MacBooks capable of not only running for 24 hours on a single charge, but of recharging their cells as they run by sucking up the ambient light in the room around them. Wow.”
“At today’s Intel Developer’s Forum, Intel introduced its new Haswell architecture, and it’s a doozy of an update to current chips,” Brownlee reports. “Created using a 22 nanometer 3D transistor process, the first thing Haswell makes possible is ARM-like power consumption on an x86 chip. That means all day battery life, as well as ten days of connected standby.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Arline M.” for the heads up.]
Funny… my ti84+ can run for months on just a few doublea’s
Damn!
… this guy’s native language? If so, did he graduate High School? Certainly not college!
That said, good news … even if the messenger is faulty.
Graduate FROM high school, Dude. (sorry, Man LOL)
… I understand what you are saying – on a couple of levels. And I try hard not to be particularly nit-picking about grammar usage. But there is a huge difference between a lesser style (omitting the optional “from”s and “that”s most people choose to use) and “just wrong” lines such as “be able of releasing”.
But … thanks for not going full-on flame where such was not warranted.
No, sorry “man” I think it is you are incorrect
Graduate can be used as a verb without a subject (subject implied) -did he graduate- or informally as as a transitive verb -did she graduate college- or in the formal use you demonstrated -He graduated from high school.
You might want to consult a dictionary before criticizing someone’s grammar.
Yes please!
Funny, My HP-15c RPN calculator is 20+ years old and is on its 2nd set of batteries.
Oh, dear, it’s true. The best way to write a résumé is also the best way to fold a map: differently. The best time to take out a loan is when you don’t need it. The best time to get good value for your trade in is last month. The worst time to buy a computer is yesterday. The best time to buy a computer is tomorrow. You just have to grin and bear it, then do the best you can.
Oh, the pain of life!
If you want 24 hours of operation on batteries, then the Haswell power consumption needs to be better than ARM-like.
“…recharging their cells as they run by sucking up the ambient light in the room around them”
I was half-expecting to read “sucking up ambient heat”, as in the heat generated by the CPU, graphics chip, hard drives, etc. That would’ve been a neat trick, considering how hot my Macbook runs.
Someone please tell Intel that Thermodynamics would like her 2nd law back, since they apparently do not need it anymore!
How soon will this intel dream come? Seems Apple was only demanding this a few weeks ago… Now intel has the answers…. Congratulations and to think this is for laptops imagine what it shall do for cellphones ?
They’ve been working on it for 10 years.
They first announced it was coming back in May. Im betting the current market conditions pushed the development cycle into hyperdrive
Apple wins either way.
Either they can wait a couple of years and hopefully get ARM-like frugal power consumption on an Intel chip, or else they can use actual ARM chips any time they choose to.
It will all depend on how well the chips deliver on their promises. It’s not at all unusual for promises and expectations to be ahead of what can actually be delivered, but Apple is able to jump either way.
“or else they can use actual ARM chips any time they choose to.”
No they can’t.
There is no ARM chip (or even ARM technology based chip) that is even in the same league as the Sandy Bridge chips. Maybe in four or five years there will be an ARM based chip that is computationally equivalent to the Sandy Bridge chips of today. It’s just not even close to reality now — or even in the near future.
No one will buy a Macbook Pro with the equivalent of today’s ARM computational power. No one!
The next generatin Macbook Air might be able to run the next version of an ARM derivative (A6 chip?), but not today’s ARM chips. Even then (with the next generation ARM chip) the Air will take a significant hit in computational power.
awesome sounding arch update.
Intel reminds me a lot of Apple at times, just when you think they might be ‘finished’ they re-invent what we thought was possible.
Or is this Intel afraid that Apple will leave them for something Apple dreams up.
Apple should use its huge cash horde to buy the “rights” to this wonder chip. Intel will be guaranteed a steady income stream and Apple will get the first right of purchasing these chips. If competitors want this chip, they will have to pay 80% more than what Apple pays.
Or for about $60B you could buy a controlling interest in Intel, that is, if the DoJ would permit it.
The heck with running off of ambient light. What this country needs is for it to be powered by the lard stored in our fat American asses. Adapt it to run our cars and trucks also and we can tell the OPEC countries to go piss up a rope.
If the Haswell chips really only consume 1/20th the power of the Sandy Bridge CPUs that is probably more power efficient than ARM. A year after Haswell Intel plans to come out with an even more power efficient successor to the Atom processor.
…and this will make 15″ LED displays use less power… how…?
Me thinks yer imagination getteth away with ye.
Intel seems to deliver big, bold statements only to have them disappoint when it actually does ship. I’ll believe it when I see it.
…and to add to my last statement, no I did not forget about Thunderbolt/Light Peek. Still a little early to tell whether that is a success or not.