Penryn pre order / buy date?

[GoodToGo]

Does anyone know when the penryn X9650 will be available for buying or pre order?

 

[AmberClad]

I thought I had read somewhere that Apple had already pre-ordered/hoarded all of the Yorkfield Extreme Editions (at least through the end of this year)...

 

[GoodToGo]

You know for such an important earth shattering update (as per Intel that is), there seems to be no info regarding the release of it. Thought they would be interested in doing that :roll:

 

[myocardia]

Well, it makes sense to me. If you had already promised 90+% of your chips to someone besides the general public, you wouldn't advertise them much either, would you?

 

[AmberClad]

Found the article where I saw that report. It's from the INQ, so course the usual "take it with a grain of salt" rules apply.

Apple looks set to pinch all Intel's top-bin Penryns

[Apple] covets both the Yorkfield Extreme for its mainstream boxes and Harpertown Xeons for the next Mac Pro.
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So, the rumour says that Apple pretty much pre-booked all the amounts of top Penryn bins that could be booked for this year - especially the X548". This excludes the minimum quantities for other big vendors so that they will be able to claim at least starting to ship their stuff. Those other vendors will, in reality, mostly have to count on the "standard" Penryn speed bins, a notch or two below the top ones.