@hksduhksdu I dont care about apple's (milkiing-fanboys)profit but as it seems they will put an extra delay because of their recent and relatively late nehalem refresh. that means an extra delay ontop of the ordinary delay we saw with the nehalem.. if you sum that you can read out that apple might even skip the first sandy-bridge based cpus.
just talking of the macbooks ... iMacs might get updated
@electron Not too tech-knowledgeable so may be wrong, but with the introduction of the Apple's proprietary ARM-based A4 chip Intel doesn't get any product in the beef of Apple's lineup- iPhones & iPads. You just talking about Macs?
The point is that Intel wont be going anywhere because of x86. Apple can't just switch onto A4 chips for everything because nothing on the Mac range will run on that architecture.
That and A4 chips really aren't powerful enough for the desktop.
@iHack13 Or, more likely, as is their trend, was to not jump on iX processors until they were certain intel's next offering used the same core components/sockets/chipsets. Apple got burned with Intel shifting around socket requirements already, having to hard redesign every system to get iX into them, they were not likely to do that twice in 2 years. Good move.
@sundevl21 "Intel doesn't get any product in the beef of Apple's lineup- iPhones & iPads" intel doesnt provide a weak enough cpu to be put in apples hand held devices.
@archkron apples already changed their cpus on the mac range to intel. i wouldnt put it past them, however i dont think they are stupid enough. the day they put an a4 chip in a mac is the day their market share in computers will turn to zero
@critique Mac sales increased greatly since they moved from PPC to intel chips. Moving to anything\anyone else (except for AMD, but that wont be happening) wouldn't be in their best interest. On that note however the only desktop part you'll ever see the A4 in will likely be the Apple Tv.
I wouldn't speak so soon. If these fusion chips are good we may see apple make a giant shift to amd chips, especially with the problems with intel and nvidia of late. Remember to most people the CPU is not important; we've had enough computing power for years.
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Smart move, catching up on Apple's sales by end of this year!!!
@hksduhksdu
umm, what?!
you know that Apple doesn't make their own CPUs, and that they buy them from intel, right?
or was that another blind troll comment? either way, *downranked*
@hksduhksdu
I dont care about apple's (milkiing-fanboys)profit but as it seems they will put an extra delay because of their recent and relatively late nehalem refresh.
that means an extra delay ontop of the ordinary delay we saw with the nehalem..
if you sum that you can read out that apple might even skip the first sandy-bridge based cpus.
just talking of the macbooks ... iMacs might get updated
@electron
Not too tech-knowledgeable so may be wrong, but with the introduction of the Apple's proprietary ARM-based A4 chip Intel doesn't get any product in the beef of Apple's lineup- iPhones & iPads. You just talking about Macs?
@sundevl21
The point is that Intel wont be going anywhere because of x86. Apple can't just switch onto A4 chips for everything because nothing on the Mac range will run on that architecture.
That and A4 chips really aren't powerful enough for the desktop.
@sundevl21 Proprietary ? You mean the same A4 chip made by Samsung that will feature in Samsung phones ?
Steve Jobs lies about proprietary.
@iHack13
Or, more likely, as is their trend, was to not jump on iX processors until they were certain intel's next offering used the same core components/sockets/chipsets. Apple got burned with Intel shifting around socket requirements already, having to hard redesign every system to get iX into them, they were not likely to do that twice in 2 years. Good move.
@sundevl21 "Intel doesn't get any product in the beef of Apple's lineup- iPhones & iPads"
intel doesnt provide a weak enough cpu to be put in apples hand held devices.
@archkron apples already changed their cpus on the mac range to intel. i wouldnt put it past them, however i dont think they are stupid enough. the day they put an a4 chip in a mac is the day their market share in computers will turn to zero
@critique
Mac sales increased greatly since they moved from PPC to intel chips. Moving to anything\anyone else (except for AMD, but that wont be happening) wouldn't be in their best interest. On that note however the only desktop part you'll ever see the A4 in will likely be the Apple Tv.
@tobsmonster2
The Apple TV isn't really a desktop part since it doesn't run a desktop OS.
Apple are arrogant but it's not silly enough to squander its marketshare on the desktop.
I wouldn't speak so soon. If these fusion chips are good we may see apple make a giant shift to amd chips, especially with the problems with intel and nvidia of late. Remember to most people the CPU is not important; we've had enough computing power for years.