Geekbench Confirms Ivy Bridge MacBook Pro and iMac 133
An anonymous reader writes "It was inevitable that Intel launching the 22nm Ivy Bridge processors would lead to Apple using them in its laptops and desktop machines. While Apple never leaks details early, someone using pre-release hardware has managed to upload details of the new machine to Geekbench's database. We can definitely expect a Core i7 Ivy Bridge MacBook Pro and iMac later this year."
No ethernet... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:No ethernet... (Score:5, Insightful)
The kind that does not allow WiFi for security reasons.
Re:No ethernet... (Score:2, Insightful)
If there is heavy bandwidth use, wifi is a nightmare. Remember its half the speed of 100 mbit, and its shared. Then if you are in an office building the wifi is crap by itself since every's wifi on your floor plus 7 above and below interferes with your wifi (yes there are several channels but you should be able to see how easily all channels get occupied).
My last job had both, I'd regularly have to go plug in so I didn't have to wait forever for some large files to transfer.
Re:No ethernet... (Score:4, Insightful)
Remote X11 to servers you don't control is still waaaay faster on a wire.
So are backups. And if you use the folder/drive sharing feature of RDC, this is way more usable using a wire.
Plus, wireless degrades less gracefully with multiple users and I find the wire to be more reliable in general.
Re:No ethernet... (Score:4, Insightful)
How often do you really need gigabit?
Almost anyone working in media production will likely answer "Every day".
WiFi isn't a solution when users are transferring 300GB+ at a time over the network.
Why is this even remotely interesting? (Score:4, Insightful)
Why is this even remotely interesting? We know Intel has released Ivy Bridge. We know there are other companies already using Ivy Bridge. Apple's current offerings are a generation or two behind the existing status quo for high-end hardware on the laptop/desktop market. It is a no brainer that, yes, Apple would also use the next generation of hardware, too.
This is not even remotely news worthy (though it might be for macrumours.com or whatever). Now, if they were changing architectures back to PPC or to ARM on the desktop, that might be something worth talking about!
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