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    Penryn Chip?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by bcom77, Feb 27, 2008.

  1. bcom77

    bcom77 Notebook Enthusiast

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    How do you find out if you have a Penryn chip or not inside your macbook Pro? Is there a systems setting that tells you? (sorry, I'm new to macs).
     
    bcom77, Feb 27, 2008
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    Unless you bought a brand new MBP from Apple as of yesterday, I doubt you have a Penryn chip. Penryn's were released in the Mac's yesterday
     
    diggy, Feb 27, 2008
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  3. thnksfrthmmrs

    thnksfrthmmrs Notebook Evangelist

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    LMAO. This is hilarious, no offense. As diggy said before me, unless you bought that MBP yesterday yours doesn't have a Penryn processor.
     
    thnksfrthmmrs, Feb 27, 2008
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    Yeah but seriously, when you check the system specs does it tell you that the chip is a Penryn? Have a little patience thnksfrthmmrs. I'm relatively new to macs and laptops in general and am just trying to find out some info here.
     
    bcom77, Feb 27, 2008
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  5. diggy

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    I dont think System Profiler is going to tell you that; it should only tell you that its an Intel Core 2 Duo.
     
    diggy, Feb 27, 2008
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  6. thnksfrthmmrs

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    Sorry, I don't think I've had much fun these days so... but why would you want to check to see if yours is a Penryn? As I said before, it's definitely not unless you bought it yesterday.
     
    thnksfrthmmrs, Feb 27, 2008
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    if you run windows vista on it it will show the series number or if you run cpuz it'll show the cache difference. they also have sse4.1 i believe.
     
    einhander, Feb 27, 2008
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    Modly Warranty Voider

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    Don't forget that the new Mac Pro's that were released last month have Penryn based Xeon's.
     
    Modly, Feb 27, 2008
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    Under the Apple, go to About This Mac, click More Info..., and in Hardware under L2 cache, if it said 3 or 6MB then it's a Penryn, if it's 4MB then it's a Merom.
     
    ltcommander_data, Feb 27, 2008
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    I have Penryn!
     
    thecommish16, Feb 27, 2008
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