What Intel's Core 2 refresh means for Apple

[Harbourmaster]

New Xeons for Mac Pro and new Core 2 Duos for MacBook Pro

http://www.tech.co.uk/computing/mac/news...1307816107

[Filliam H. Muffman]

A couple percent performance improvement at the same clock speed and a 10% reduction in processor power use. There should be another small step up in the top clock speed too.

[incognegro]

that article is mistaken - current MacBook Pros have 4 MB of shared L2 cache, not 3 MB.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

A nice article about how chips get patched and revised for mass production.
http://tweakers.net/reviews/740/chip-mag...-45nm.html

[Jem]

[quote incognegro]that article is mistaken - current MacBook Pros have 4 MB of shared L2 cache, not 3 MB.
Yeah... the "facts" in that article are so loose, it's hard to know what to believe from it.

In the last line it also refers to the MacPro already using Santa Rosa, when I think they mean to say the Mac *Book* Pro.