What would happen on Mac Book?

So rumors about MacBooks’ amend affair flood now. Problem is: how fast will Apple move the MacBook to the best recent Intel chips?

The 17-inch MacBook Pro adopted Intel’s Core i5 and i7 adaptable chips almost anon afterwards their introduction.

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MacBook Pros: It’s a appealing safe bet that Apple will advancement 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros to Sandy Bridge–announced in January–sooner rather than later. Aftermost year, Apple adopted the Core i5 and i7 processors for the 15-inch and 17-inch Pros in April: amounting to little added than a three ages delay afterwards the chips were alien in aboriginal 2010. The Sandy Bridge chipset annihilate notwithstanding, timing should be similar. (Remember this was a accessory glitch, causing alone a baby discharge in Intel’s addition schedule.)

MacBook Air: But that’s alone bisected the story. The aggregation has been announcement some counterintuitive cerebration recently. I’m speaking, of course, about the 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air (which, approved readers of this blog know, I’ve adherent added than a little ink to.) The Intel internals–essentially the academician of the system–of the abate Pros and Air accept remained almost changeless for years (three in the case of the Air).

And an arresting aspect of this action is that it doesn’t assume to be impacting 2010 Air sales materially. The 2010 MBA is proving to be alike added accepted than its predecessors in animosity of the processor inertia.

But is three years too long?

“That’s a continued time,” said Nathan Brookwood, arch analyst at Insight64, a dent consulting firm. “The Core 2 Duo (the dent Apple uses now in the Air) is a appropriate product. But you’re activity to see a lot of thin-and-light Sandy Bridge articles from Apple competitors–the Dells of the world–that are alluringly styled. And the Air is activity to alpha to attending a little dated. So, I anticipate they do charge to move to Sandy Bridge.”

A analysis by Anand Shimpi, at Anandtech states added or beneath the aforementioned thing, but in a altered way. “The 13-inch MacBook Air performs as able-bodied as aftermost year’s 13-inch MacBook Pro. But if you plan on accomplishing absolute work, you’ll be bedfast by the achievement of these systems. Apple absolutely needs to acquisition a way to get an Arrandale or Sandy Bridge into this chassis,” he wrote. Arrandale is Intel’s antecedent bearing of Core i alternation processors (what Apple currently uses), which predates Sandy Bridge.

What comes afterwards Sandy Bridge? The abutting above change to Intel silicon will appear with a dent code-named Ivy Bridge. But a power-efficient Ivy Bridge dent that Apple could use in the Air wouldn’t acceptable be accessible until mid-2012, according to Brookwood.

But there’s achievement yet. Apple is accepted to move the Air to Sandy Bridge this summer–and angrily go area no Air has gone before.

(most advice from:http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20031657-64.html)