“For the past couple of years Intel has been on this tick-tock model of CPU releases. Every ‘tock,’ which happens once every two years, Intel introduces a brand new CPU architecture, in this case that’d be the 65nm Conroe/Merom based Core 2 Duo CPUs. The “ticks” happen the alternate year (when no ‘tock’ is going on), where performance enhancements are minor but the transistor feature size goes down. Penryn is a ‘tick,’ it’s a 45nm derivative of the Conroe/Merom architecture,” Anand Lal Shimpi reports for AnandTech.
“The new MacBook and MacBook Pro can be looked at as ‘tick’ notebooks, as they are both based on Intel’s 45nm Penryn core. The CPU product name is still Core 2 Duo, but the core itself is smaller and runs cooler,” Lal Shimpi reports.
“The next tock won’t happen until the end of this year with Nehalem, also a 45nm chip but with many new features and markedly higher performance. Nehalem will require a brand new board design and thus you can expect to see larger changes in Apple’s Nehalem based MacBook/MacBook Pro updates,” Lal Shimpi reports.
“Regardless of where the innovation comes from, it is still an improvement in technology and mobile Penryn proves to be everything we expected it to be. The biggest improvement by far comes in the battery life department. Just as we had seen earlier, you can expect these new models to outlast their predecessors by a good 7 – 15%,” Lal Shimpi reports.
AnandTech’s full, comprehensive review – highly recommended as always – here.
Hurry
But is that enough to tick you off?
Vi have vays of making them tock.
I’ve been waiting for this review
What the hell has happened to AMD?
“What the hell has happened to AMD?”
They morphed into WMD and mysteriously vanished.
I read somewhere that AMD is getting ibm-ified, but I could be wrong.
I’ve been wrong before, in 1983 to be precise.
” . . . in 1983 to be precise.”
Was it the evening of June 4th, 1983?
Because I was wrong on that day.
@ Ampar: Can’t tell, I kept my records on a TI99/4A.
That’s a shame.
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Up to 15% battery life increase. That’s some nice extra cushion.
@ IKON: I’ve still got an audio tape lying around somewhere that has my BASIC programs from my TI99/4A recorded onto it. It was so cool when I figured out how to hook up my mono cassette recorder to the computer.
I also have a tape somewhere with mono recordings of the theme songs from all my favorite cartoons of the early 80’s.
To Krioni:
I had one of those too. And as far as cartoons go, I preferred Kimba the White Lion. Too bad that never got remade . . . oh, wait.
Does anyone remember the Plastic Man cartoon from the early 80’s? I’ve only found one person who has. He had this Hawaiian friend HulaHula who knew someone in every city they went to.
I also remember during the “opening credits” that you would see his arm stretch over the top of one bathroom stall to grab toilet paper from the stall next to him.
(Now, I’m wondering if Larry Craig was in that other stall)
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I remember Plastic Man! Vaguely remember a Hawaiian character. There was a cigar-smoking superbaby with a really gruff voice, too, I think, although Wikipedia doesn’t describe the baby:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plastic_Man_Comedy/Adventure_Show
@Krioni,
THANK YOU!!!
I’m not crazy after all! Or, at least all that acid didn’t eat up as much of my brain as I thought.