[HouseSold]

The last sentence in this news article indicates that 'Yonah' equipped notebooks are 'transitional products' for 64 bit to emerge.

Also link for interesting NVidia connection.

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http://www.simmtester.com/page/news/...s.asp?num=9457
(site was down this morning) text follows:

Yonah notebooks sells under $1,000

Friday, August 04, 2006

Dell, Acer and HP, have begun cutting prices for Intel Core Duo notebooks that feature the Yonah T2300E CPU, in an attempt to accelerate inventory clearance of Sonoma models prior to the launch of Merom-based systems.

The average selling price (ASP) of Intel Core Duo notebooks has gone down to less than US$1,000, indicated the sources.

Notebook models based on Intel's Core Duo T2250 and T2050 processors, which are not listed with the other T-series Core Duo mobile CPUs on Intel's pricing or product website pages, are priced between US$699-799, according to the sources.

Intel's roadmap outlines that volume production of its Merom processors will begin in the middle of August, with Intel-based 64-bit dual-core notebooks to hit shelves as early as the end of the month, sources familiar with the roadmap noted. Intel intends to raise the proportion of notebook processor shipments for Merom to over 50% in the first quarter of 2007, indicated the sources. Consequently, the sources consider that dual-core Yonah CPUs have turned out to be a transitional product line, prior to the 64-bit dual-core platform.

By: DocMemory
Copyright © 2006 CST, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Nvidia
http://www.simmtester.com/page/news/...s.asp?num=9458
Merom-notebooks to support Nvidia SLI

Friday, August 04, 2006

Nvidia will soon announce that Merom-based notebooks support its dual-graphics SLI technology, according to sources at Taiwan notebook makers.

The sources pointed out that Dan Vivoli, executive vice president of Nvidia, attended Intel's recent launch of Core 2 Duo processors in Silicon Valley, considering this as a sign of possible cooperation between Intel and Nvidia. Nvidia SLI will likely be supported by Intel's 945-series notebook chipsets, according to the sources.

The sources also mentioned a rumor that Intel has reached licensing agreements with both Nvidia and ATI Technologies to enable Intel chipsets support SLI and CrossFire technologies, with updated drivers. So far, none of the companies officially confirmed that Intel notebook chipsets can support any of the two dual-graphics technologies.

By: DocMemory
Copyright © 2006 CST, Inc. All Rights Reserved

[mac128k-1984]

Transitional or not, the MB and MBP are fine machines. I'm not sure what your point is. They are fast workable computers. You could make the argument that every CPU is a transitional CPU until the next generation hits the market.

[analogika]

So?

[HouseSold]

Originally Posted by mac128k-1984

Transitional or not, the MB and MBP are fine machines. I'm not sure what your point is. They are fast workable computers. You could make the argument that every CPU is a transitional CPU until the next generation hits the market.

I was posting an article that appeared interesting relative to our notebooks FWIW

[mduell]

What does 64-bit give you in a laptop? Not much.

SLI in a laptop sounds neat, but Apple doesn't even offer SLI in their desktops.

[HouseSold]

Originally Posted by mduell

What does 64-bit give you in a laptop? Not much.

SLI in a laptop sounds neat, but Apple doesn't even offer SLI in their desktops.

Not offered yet; who knows about next week or what effect AMD purchasing ATI will have on who Apple chooses. Many commenting on them using the Intel 965 chipset next.

Maybe all marketing talk.....

[gooser]

it's true. the core duo notebooks wil be replaced on october 16th with the g5 powerbooks.

[macross]

Originally Posted by gooser

it's true. the core duo notebooks wil be replaced on october 16th with the g5 powerbooks.

or maybe the supefast g4 chips

[angelmb]

Originally Posted by macross

or maybe the supefast g4 chips

Please, show some respect towards the G4 CPU, actually, it was the first supercomputer on a chip !!

What makes a supercomputer "super" is its ability to execute at least one billion floating-point operations per second. It's a staggering measure of speed known as a "gigaflop" and you can now put one on or under your desk.

[mac128k-1984]

Originally Posted by HouseSold

I was posting an article that appeared interesting relative to our notebooks FWIW

If I understand the article correctly, it postulates that the current CPUs that are in MacBooks and MacBook Pros are going to be replaced with faster CPUs. I just don't see the value in these type of articles, its kind of stating the obvious