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    MacBook Air Suitable Montevina Chips Due Later This Year

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    Post by blade Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:11 pm

    http://www.macrumors.com/2008/06/20/macbook-air-suitable-montevina-chips-due-later-this-year/

    PC manufacturers have recently introduced a number of new ultra-thin laptops that share a similar profile to Apple's MacBook Air. The HP Voodoo Envy edges out the MacBook Air with a slightly smaller (0.7 vs .76 inches) maximum thickness and uses the same custom Intel processors (SP7700 and SP7500) that were designed specifically for Apple.

    CNet reminds us that this custom processor is based on Intel's older Merom (65-nm) chip design. An Intel representative confirmed to CNet that a 45-nm Penryn/Montevina version of the chip is expected to be introduced later this year. That chip will be suitable for use in a future version of the MacBook Air. According to Wikipedia, the next version of this "SP" line of chips come in at 2.26GHz and 2.4GHz but with a slightly higher power consumption (25 watts vs 20 watts).

    The MacBook Air was introduced at Macworld San Francisco 2008 and currently ships at 1.6GHz and 1.8GHz processor speeds.
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    Post by krypto Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:36 pm

    i hope this happens
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    Post by blade Tue Jun 24, 2008 10:57 am

    me too, even though i just got an Air
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    Post by krypto Wed Jun 25, 2008 9:02 pm

    penryn/montevina chips at 2.26 and 2.4, that's pretty fast for a super-thin notebook
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    Post by blade Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:49 pm

    yes it is. and they are 64-bit
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    Post by krypto Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:13 pm

    yeah, and 64-bit, that's very nice
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    Post by blade Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:22 pm

    quit copying what i say.

    and why did you not reply to a thread in this forum?
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    Post by ubuntu Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:38 pm

    well the macbook airs have been updated
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