Apple's new MacBooks to come with Core 2 Duo processors
The new Core 2 Duo Macbooks will be available during the holiday shopping season.
The new Intel Core Duo 2 powered MacBooks are sleek, sexy and fast. They have gone an inch thinner and 25% faster. The MacBook now becomes the third in the line of Apple's computers the company has upgraded to Core 2 Duo processors.
Philip Schiller, Worldwide Produce Marketing VP for Apple said, "The MacBook has helped drive Apple's notebook market share to over 10% in US retail, and the new MacBooks will be among this holiday season's most exciting new products. With Intel Core 2 Duo processors across the entire line, these new MacBooks are up to 25 percent faster than their predecessors."
With the holiday season coming up fast, the new MacBooks might just be the hottest selling item. The new MacBooks have three models categorized as per their performance- one at 1.83 GHz, an entry model of the chip, and one at 2 GHz, both with a "sleek white" color, as well as a black version of the 2 GHz model. The black version would have 120 GB hard drive. The MacBooks come ready with Apple's famous entertainment and "digital lifestyle" software suite, iLife 06 and DVD player and burner. Not to forget it has a 13" wide screen display. A total entertainment package. Apple is also doubling the memory to 1GB of SDRAM and also increasing the hardrive space, though this feature would be available to top models only. The new MacBooks also feature an iSight video camera. Consumers can get ready to shed $1,499 for the high-end version, $1,299 for the mid-tier one and $1,099 for the entry-level model.
In 2005, Apple and Intel had joined hands to collaborate with each other. And today, Apple has come out with the Core 2 Duo processors on their new MacBook.
Earlier, Apple used PowerPC processors on their MacBooks, and routinely mocked Intel and Windows. However, over the last four years, Intel steadily launched newere and more powerful lines of processors, while the PowerPc platform stagnated. Then Apple and Intel joined hands. MacBook Pro and iMac were earlier pushed into using Core 2 Duo processors. The Mac Pro line of desktops runs on Intel's Xeon workstation processors instead of the Core Duo family of chips. The only line of product, which remains to be converted to Dual 2 Core processors, is the Mac mini, which is a line of low-end desktop computers. Mac Mini till runs on Core Duo chips.
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