Monday, March 31, 2008

More on MacBook Pro purchase decision

What would make a Q3 update worth waiting for?

Do I care much about the new

Intel Montevina Platform

Montevina consists of the Penryn 45nm procesor, the Cantiga (GM45) chipset, Intel X4500 graphics, 1066MT/s FSB

1066MHz FSB Why not? (Though FSB is not the bottleneck on the MBP as I use it.)
15% lower Thermal Design Power (TDP) - <29w> Yes! See environmentally-efficient
1900x1200 display sounds good...
BTO Blu-Ray Burner Hmmmm, 2 years from now this might look good
chipset native Wi-Max Yes!
conversion to Micro-DVI or displayport to make chassis thinner thinner sounds good...
DDR3-800 RAM (Up to 8 GB) faster RAM sounds good...
environmentally-efficient Yes! Yes! Yes!
Hybrid or Solid State disk drive Yes! But unlikely...
MacBook Air style keyboard ???
magnetic latch eh...
NVIDIA's new Quadro FX 3600M ???
Radeon 3800 Mobility 512MB
Redsigned Case Yes!
smaller and lighter Yes! Yes!
Support for WiMAX (802.16) Yes!
Up to 2.93GHz Penryn Why not? (Though CPU is not the bottleneck on the MBP as I use it.)
Magsafe connector sounds good...

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