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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 17th Jan 2006 14:52 UTC

"Steve Jobs foiled the rumormongers once more at last week's Macworld Expo. Most observers expected that Apple would announce the first Macintosh computers that partake of powerful and efficient Intel Core Duo microprocessors, the same used by top-notch Windows machines. But almost no one thought that the first of these machines would be the most popular Macs that Apple makes - the elegant desktop iMac and the workhorse PowerBook laptop (now renamed the MacBook Pro). After his keynote, he spoke to NewsWeek's Steven Levy, between sips of tea."

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hahahaha

by TheOne on Tue 17th Jan 2006 17:13 UTC

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2005-09-03

I remember having heavily debated one or two years ago on OSnews about G4 vs PentiumM...the MAC zealots were so sure that they have the upper hand on mobility and performance. I've been saying all along that Intel PentiumMs give us better performance. Looks like in order to get a reasonable performance on you portables Apple has resorted to using Intel chips. Yonah (CoreDuo) is based on PentiumM's architecture, yet it is better than g5 in terms of performance. A word to former PowerPC zealots - future Intel CoreDuo users: welcome to the PC world..you can finally discover what performance means!! (on x86)hehehe

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RE: hahahaha

by spook on Tue 17th Jan 2006 18:31 in reply to "hahahaha"

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2006-01-09

I remember having heavily debated one or two years ago on OSnews about G4 vs PentiumM...the MAC zealots were so sure that they have the upper hand on mobility and performance. I've been saying all along that Intel PentiumMs give us better performance.
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I'm sorry about the accident

Well thats the only way I can explain it, you've being in a coma for two years and have not being able to keep up with present news

When you was debating, as you said two years ago, it was against the then G4 chip nearing its end on the desk top and the new PM

Now jump two years and we still have the G4 due to not being able to put a G5 in a laptop vs........

Yes an entirely new processor, have you caught the big flaw with your argument yet?

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RE[2]: hahahaha

by rayiner on Tue 17th Jan 2006 19:17 in reply to "RE: hahahaha"

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2005-07-06

Yonah is not an entirely new processor. Yonah is basically a dual-core P-M with a better FPU. Indeed, for single-threaded integer tasks, its actually a bit slower than a P-M at the same clockspeed, due to its higher-latency L2 cache.

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