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    Apple's upcoming notebooks

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by vaio_boi, Oct 12, 2006.

  1. vaio_boi

    vaio_boi Notebook Evangelist

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    When the new Macbook comes out with the core 2 duo, do you think it will get an upgrade from 5400 to 7200 rpm for HDD? It will make a fairly big difference right? Also, they should do someting about the GMA.
     
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    cashmonee Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    Two things. First, Merom is only a processor upgrade. You will not see a major upgrade until Santa Rosa. Second, very few notebooks come standard with a 7200 RPM drive. As an upgrade, it does not make sense either. Understand that Apple's are not gaming machines, right? So, take gaming out of it. You are left with regular consumers and pros. The consumer does not need a 7200 RPM drive or discrete graphics. Pros do. The reason the iBooks had discrete graphics probably had to do with the lack of an integrated graphics solution for the PPC.
     
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  3. vaio_boi

    vaio_boi Notebook Evangelist

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    What is santa rosa?
     
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    The main reason you won't see a 7200RPM hard disk as standard in notebooks is that they by their very nature consume more power than a 5400RPM hard drive.

    They could opt for a better performing dedicated graphic chip as the Mobility X1450 but everything is speculation at this point.
     
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    Its the next generation of the Centrino platform.
     
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    Thats not true and has been proven many times. They consume the same amount of power. Think about it, it has to spin for a shorter time than a 5400 drive to retrieve the same data. I believe there is a sticky in the accesory page about this.

    But as everyone else said, not much point on a consumer laptop using a 7200 rpm drive. They are more expensive and come in smaller sizes. I opted for a 7200 in my MBP as sometimes I need very fast access (for audio work). There is really only a small difference in performance between a 5400 and 7200. The difference to me has always been noticable, but much less so than going from 4200 to 5400.
     
    hollownail, Oct 13, 2006
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    7200 rpm drive is already available on nearly every notebook now. why is this being discussed here???
     
    circa86, Oct 13, 2006
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    Part of the reason you integrated graphics on Macs is the "deal" with Intel.

    Intel promises to keep Apple deep in good CPUs, Apple agrees to pimp Intel technology every once in a while.
     
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    Most of the other posts already allude to this point, but Apple has always been very adamant about clearly delineating between their consumer and pro-sumer lines. So it's an almost dead certainty you will probably never see a 7200 rpm HDD in a vanilla MacBook until they start shipping the MB Pro with a 10k rpm HDD, if that ever happens.
     
    mach_zero, Oct 13, 2006
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  11. hollownail

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    Yeah, doubt we'd see a 10k rpm drive. I've never heard of those in a 2.5" form.

    But I bet MBP will be first to get hybrid drives :)
     
    hollownail, Oct 15, 2006
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    Me either. I was just speculating on what the future may bring once they get bored with increasing capacities with this new perpendicular recording thing and get back to concentrating on speed.
     
    mach_zero, Oct 15, 2006
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