“Intel has published the details of the first ‘Merom’ mobile Core 2 Duo processors, though the chips will not ship in notebooks until toward the end of August, the chip giant revealed this morning,” Tony Smith reports for The Register.
According to the report, Intel’s Japanese wing confirmed five Merom chips will be available, running at 1.66, 1.83, 2.00, 2.16 and 2.33GHz.
More info here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy” for the heads up.]
Related MacDailyNews articles:
Report: Merom to replace Yonah in Apple MacBook Pro in late August – July 24, 2006
Apple Mac Mini brain replaced with 2.16GHz Intel ‘Merom’ Core 2 Duo and benchmarked – June 09, 2006
Intel gets aggressive on next-gen rollout schedules: Merom MacBook Pros, Conroe Power Macs, more – May 03, 2006
OK. Start the rumor mongering!
My first shot: I’ll be ordering a MBP with Merom On August 7th, with it arriving at my door August 28th.
And the stock reacts positively?
Outstanding!
This is going to be awesome. Finally, a powerbook running on lower wattage at high speed. Wonder how Apple will configure the new notebooks?
Here they come the MacBook Pro with full 64-bit support from Leopard.
Now THAT is the right distinction from the consumer version MacBook. Just perfect!
Overheating problem: solved.
Case warping: solved.
Discoloration problem: solved
Quality as promised: we’ll see.
All would have happen sooner if no one had bought a first generation intel MacBook of any kind!
Demand the quality! That’s the only real advantage Apple offers. Otherwise, might as well be anything else.
To Pete Peterson:
Pete, I received my 2.0 GHz MBP on 30 March and it’s been working for me every day since. I needed it for “portable” work and presentations, and the productivity has already paid for it. For my big document databases, searches and AI processes on the MBP are more than a full order of magnitude faster than on the TiBook it replaced.
It’s been fast, rock stable, quiet, no heat problems and has perfect fit & finish. So I’ll give Apple high marks for engineering design and production quality on my machine, even though it’s first generation. (I retired my first generation TiBook 500 MHz after 5+ years of great service, when the MBP arrived.)
Running the same UB programs on my MacBook Pro and my PowerMac G5 dual core 2.3 GHz, the MBP is often quicker than the PowerMac. And the CPU and SMART disk temperatures are about the same. That’s a magnificent achievement for the MBP, which weighs less than a tenth the weight of the PowerMac plus 24″ monitor.
If only the MBP had the 5 GB RAM and terabyte of internal HD space of the PowerMac…. Perhaps in another generation or two.
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Yes, I’ve seen complaints on the Apple Support forum. But I’ve seen complaints on the Support forums about every model Apple has introduced. My guess is that the vast majority of folk who have bought the first generation MBP and MB computers are happy with them, as I am with mine.
January 2007 and I’ll buy my MBP 15.” Come on winter!
I’m with you MikeR. When they start shipping Leopard with Merom, I’m there.
The next question, is it better to buy direct from Apple or a retailer like MacMall? It seems like you can get better deals from resellers, but maybe not the latest tech.