After the Core 2 Duo Chip, Whats Next For Apple Laptops?
Computerworld’s Dan Turner has posted a think piece about where Apple may be heading next in notebook CPUs. Of course, at this point it would be great if Apple could just catch up with much of its PC competition and get some Penryn II/Cenrino 2 machines out the door. The currently available MacBook families are still using either Penryn I CPUs (released by Intel in November, ’07) or in the case of the MacBook Air and even older-technology Merom CPU. Turner muses that as a maker of both desktop and laptop computers, Apple wants to “make a powerful, full-featured laptop, but not one that obviates your company’s desktops. In the past, when competent CPUs ran large and hot, and solid graphics required large and dedicated boards, this wasn’t much of an issue. But based on rumblings about Intel’s new laptop CPUs and various low-power graphics solutions, we may be seeing the last signs of a tipping point – to use a marketing term – after which time laptops may be all most people need.” Well,
