Quad-core MacBook Pro
November 16th, 2009
Intel announced Core i5 and Core i3 for laptops, with 35W heat dissipation, they could be at the heart of the next generation MacBook Pro and MacBook.
Alas, as usual with Intel (and nVidia or Apple), Core i5 doesn’t means Core i5: Desktop Core i5 are 4-cores desktop processor far faster than Core2 Quad. Mobile Core i5 are 2-cores mobile processors, with basic frequency lower than COre 2 Duo frequencies and even with Turbo Boost they are limited to 2.93Ghz (3.06Ghz for Cor2 Duo en actual MacBook Pro!).
So we will probably have Core i5 on next generation MacBook Pro, but there won’t be any Quad-core laptop and performance will be stagnant.
