Ars Reviews new iMac Core Duo
Posted by malebolgia on 19 January 2006 - 17:45 · 2 comments & 491 views
Externally, the iMac appears identical to its PowerPC predecessor. There's the small camera above the display, the same array of ports in back, and the same white keyboard and Mighty Mouse. It's the inside that's different. Instead of the venerable PowerPC 970 CPU, there's the latest from Intel: the Core Duo T2400.

The Core Duo is the second 65nm CPU from Intel (the first being the 65nm version of Presler), but the first to be widely available. Unlike the transition from 130nm to 90nm, which was the source of nightmares for engineers at both IBM and Intel, the move to 65nm appears to have gone nearly flawlessly for Intel. As a result, Apple was able to speed its transition from IBM to Intel as its primary CPU supplier to just under seven months from the announcement, and according to Jobs, the transition across the entire Apple product line will be completed by the end of 2006.

News source: ArcTechnica





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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Toastyone on 19 Jan 2006 - 19:38
Nice (y) I still wish Apple had come out with an Intel Mini the iMac is nice, but for people who want a bigger screen or already own one they are stuck waiting
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by sickmachine on 19 Jan 2006 - 22:46
& let me remind you, the intel core duo will shine in a laptop
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