“Intel on Monday demoed a number of upcoming processors set to hit market later this year, including low power versions of the company’s ‘Haswell’ fourth-generation Core series CPUs slated to roll out in Apple’s inevitable 2013 MacBook Pro and MacBook Air refreshes,” AppleInsider reports.
“According to the head of Intel’s PC client group, Kirk Skaugen, the fourth-gen Core family of processors are the first to be designed specifically for the Ultrabook initiative,” AppleInsider reports. “The new silicon is said to bring the most significant battery life improvement in Intel history, with laptops using the CPUs boasting 9 to 13 hours of continuous on-the-go use.”
AppleInsider reports, “While Apple wasn’t specifically mentioned in Intel’s keynote, which focused mainly on the chip maker’s push into smartphones and Ultrabooks, the processors outlined on Monday will likely be powering the MacBook lineup later this year. ”
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If the new CPUs provide the claimed battery life and pack a healthy performance punch, as well, then the ARM on Mac laptop discussion has been decided for at least a few more years.
Intel has a chip R&D and fabrication punch that is difficult to beat. Just ask AMD.
Give me a retina MacBook Pro with 9-13 hours of battery life and I’m there.
Ultrabook? What’s that?
Macbook Air
Here’s what I want…
Put voice into the iPads. No comments about how silly it would look held up like a phone, I never use my iPhone like that as it is… it’s always speaker phone, and/or Bluetooth.
Then… allow us to swap the activation on the fly between devices. Allow me to say that my iPad mini is now my phone, and a few minutes later say that my iPad 5 is my phone, or my iPhone is my phone.
I think Apple might have been trying to do this with their proposal for virtual sims, but the carriers were being idiots.
I’d pay good money for this.
oops, wrong article… never mind.
Thanks…you answered my WTF question. 😉
I was wondering why you posted this rant in two different articles. Done that myself, late at night, barely coherent, common among night owls. 😉
The easy way to do this would be to have a new device that served as the telephony core of the others — like a watch or other wearable device. Anything within two feet of the device can use it to unlock voice. You’re in your car? It is now your phone. You sit at your computer? It’s now your phone. Etc.
In fact, this would work with the iCloud initiative of making the computer you’re at your home computer, with your desktop and files. Wherever you go the device unlocks your info for that area and it becomes fully alive with your data.
This is coming. May also have ramifications for ewallet.
Never mind. Testing.
Just a thought from Mr. Norm the Elder!
Just a thought from Mr Norm the Elder!
Why does AI contradict the quote from Kirk?
“According to the head of Intel’s PC client group, Kirk Skaugen, the fourth-gen Core family of processors are the first to be designed specifically for the Ultrabook initiative,”
AppleInsider reports, “While Apple wasn’t specifically mentioned in Intel’s keynote, which focused mainly on the chip maker’s push into smartphones and Ultrabooks, the processors outlined on Monday will likely be powering the MacBook lineup later this year. “
Windows machines will probably be using the ‘Hasbeen’ processor
Window machines come out of photocopiers, so they will be using Haswell as well.
Haswell will drink
Hasnowell will party once a year in December but not drink!
Think Different in 2013!
According to the head of Intel’s PC client group, Kirk Skaugen, the fourth-gen Core family of processors are the first to be designed specifically for the Ultrabook initiative…
…Which, let’s be realistic, was inspired (or ripped off from) the Apple MacBook Air.
IOW: Let’s just cancel out the ‘Ultrabook’ from both sides of the equation and reduce it to:
The ‘Haswell’ was designed for the Apple MacBook Air initiative.
Isn’t math wonderful? 😉