Did apple make the wrong choice?

Posted by Ian Holsman Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:46:00 GMT

when it chose which x86 processor to put in it’s new macbook pro?

CNET recently did a benchmark comparing the AMD and intel dual core offerings, and AMD won them all.

Don’t get me wrong.. for most people (including me) you won’t be able to tell the difference in speed when you use your word processor, but still it does say to me that the choice wasn’t a technical one, I wonder how much apple is paying for it’s intel chips.

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  1. Avatar petev said about 5 hours later:

    time will tell, i am more interested in putting Windows OS ( vista maybe ) against Mac OSX on the same Intel Mac..

  2. Avatar Thom May said 1 day later:

    I think Apple were considerably more interested in the combo of power and heat that the Pentium-M offerings give them on the laptop side; AMD don’t really have anything comparable in that space. (Especially with the dual core P-M that we’re seeing in the macbook and (more interestingly for me) IBM T60.)

  3. Avatar Ian Holsman said 1 day later:

    your right Thom, power use is probably the biggest reason.

    the IBM T60 sounds interesting

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