any i7 in the pipeline for mac?

Is there any news of Apple offering i7 or faster CPUs soon?

Im dumping my alienware in favor of MacPro

 

Maybe, but I can't imagine the i7 QM series going in. They run a little hotter than Apple would want, I'd imagine. Just a guess though.

 

Nope. No news really, we'll just have to wait for the next Apple Keynote.

 

They have the i7 available in the iMac. You mentioned Mac Pro. They only have those with the little baby quad core xeon processors. But you can get dual 2.93GHz xeon quad cores if one wasn't fast enough

 

oh, I thought the OP meant for Notebooks. My bad!

 

Well, it is a Notebook Forum. It is only a matter of time before the Mac Pros see i7s I assume.

On the Macbook Pros, it is unlikely we'll see them in the near future. The current dual cores are already enough to stress the cooling.

 

Sorry, my bad, I should have said "Mac BookPro".

Im only interested in laptops/notebooks. My profession requires the use of computers and I often move around the house, neighborhood.

Not to be rude to every mac users: i would be installing windows because my applications are in windows. ANd you all know that Win apps tend to rely on brute CPU strenght to speed things up (thus my need to get i7s (Quad Cores) or really fast Dual Cores.
I know I'd get a spammed on this one for violating apples - i appologize.

 

i think we will be seeing the arrandale platform - i5's and i7's, with dual core, hyperthreading, turbo boost and an integrated 2 core gpu on macbooks within the first half of this year.
i dont think we will be seeing the nehalem quad core cpu in a macbook though, since these cpus run quite hot and require vents/fans/heat sinks that would 'fatten' a macbook.

 

no one cares if you use windows on your mac. you might as well just get a notebook that offers an i7 now though, if you need it now, since they already exist.

 

no need to appologize at all. I just ordered the DELL m6500 that is in my sig. You might want to check it out. There is a huge thread discussing it in alot of detail in the dell precision forums here on NBR.

I do run a couple variants of windows on my MacBookPro in VMs though. RUns very nicely for the business and development tools I require in windows. Nothing you'd want to do major processor intensive stuff with though.

On the other hand, running windows natively on a mac (like in bootcamp) instead of in a vm obviously speeds things up quite a bit.

 

Don't feel bad, tons of Mac users install and use Windows 7.

 

nonetheless,Windows 7 would be faster on a real computer running just windows 7,a mac has to run win7 on top of OSX,with generic drivers that dont work well with win7 running on the mac.

 

WRONG!! Its a common misconception that Windows on a Mac runs on top of OS X. Boot camp allows the user to choose to boot into Windows or OS X.

Here's a little reading material for you.

 

Apple provides Windows drivers for their machines on the OS install disc, just like other manufacturers (Dell, Hp, whatever)

 

Yep, I have Windows 7 ultimate Boot Camp installed on my MBP, and it runs it flawlessly (although a little warmer and less battery) but I have no real complaints. It's gets decent framerates out of the 9600 GT when playing F.E.A.R.2. I also have overclocking features to ramp up both the CPU and GPU a tad (2.8Ghz and 575mhz GPU Core Clock).

 

uuhhhh... the Xeon used since the last Mac Pro refresh is already i7 based with hyperthreading and everything. They've been running them a long time.

 

He already said he mean't the notebook, and I seriously doubt there are Xeon's in the Macbook Pro. Anyway, I think the new Macs might have the i3.

 

It looks like it'll be i5s given the recent Intel Internal Promo Leak...