What chipset are the current macbooks?

[state 08]

Just wondering.

Also, what advantages does Santa Rosa have?

 

[Brainonska511]

The mobile 965 series, for the MBP. The MB hasn't been updated yet. (I misread the title).

-800MHz FSB
-Wireless N
-Robson (Intel Turbo Cache, but only beneficial if the OS supports it)
And a couple other things I think, but can't remember at the moment, but those are the big things.

Edit:
As gus said, the X3100 graphics, which is a great improvement over the GMA 950.

 

[gus6464]

Macbooks have the 945 chipset and Macbook Pros have the new santa rosa chipset. As far as advantage goes only one is really support for the newer 800mhz bus core 2 duos right now. Both macbooks have had wireless N for a while now too. Now whenever apple releases the santa rosa update for macbooks they will come with the intel X3100 graphics.

 

[state 08]

Originally posted by: gus6464
Macbooks have the 945 chipset and Macbook Pros have the new santa rosa chipset. As far as advantage goes only one is really support for the newer 800mhz bus core 2 duos right now. Both macbooks have had wireless N for a while now too. Now whenever apple releases the santa rosa update for macbooks they will come with the intel X3100 graphics.

It's probably not reasonable to wait for an update though, right? Considering the fact that they just updated their Macbooks about a month ago.

I also had a question about Leopard. How much does a typical mac OS upgrade cost?

 

[luminousmidnight]

10.5 will cost $129.

 

[gus6464]

Originally posted by: state 08

Originally posted by: gus6464
Macbooks have the 945 chipset and Macbook Pros have the new santa rosa chipset. As far as advantage goes only one is really support for the newer 800mhz bus core 2 duos right now. Both macbooks have had wireless N for a while now too. Now whenever apple releases the santa rosa update for macbooks they will come with the intel X3100 graphics.

It's probably not reasonable to wait for an update though, right? Considering the fact that they just updated their Macbooks about a month ago.

I also had a question about Leopard. How much does a typical mac OS upgrade cost?

If you are a student Leopard costs $69. But other than that its $129. If you are a student you should look into ADC. I have the student membership which is $99 per year. I signed up this year and apple sent me Tiger desktop and server and when leopard comes out I will get the desktop and server versions of that as well. Not bad for only $99 that can be cancelled at any time.

I personally think that the macbooks will get the santa rosa treatment when leopard launches. It just makes sense if apple wants to continue to sell macbooks at the rate they have been selling them.

 

[soydios]

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the Macbook will receive a silent update to Santa Rosa sometime in July, looking at past trends and update schedules.

 

[Oil]

Hopefully the new MBs have an option for ANY type of dedicated graphics but I seriously doubt it. If they do I will sell my MB for one of those

 

[Commodus]

I wouldn't count on new MacBooks until November. That makes the most sense given Apple's history and that the company probably wants to make sure the system includes Leopard out of the box.

Go ahead and buy now, however. You'll get a tested OS, and arguably a 2GHz Core 2 Duo from the Merom era would be a better choice than a 1.8GHz Santa Rosa version -- you get double the L2 cache on top of the faster clock speed. The 2.16GHz Merom also isn't that far behind the 2.2GHz Santa Rosa chip if all other factors are considered equal.

 

[luminousmidnight]

Tiger is a superb OS, and is in its 10.4.9 form, so just about all major issues (if there were any) have been addressed.

I think you'll be happy with a MacBook if you purchase one .

 

[state 08]

got it!

 

[gus6464]

Congrats on your new machine. One thing i recommend all new mac owners is to format the machine and do a reinstall to get rid of all the unwanted apps and languages. Even macs come with bloatware if you are not going to use to applications (garageband, extra languages, ical, mail and whatnot). Garageband itself uses around 3gb of space. You will also save close to a gig by just installing english language of the OS. A new macbook comes with about 20gb of used hard drive space from the store and you can trim it down to 10gb by getting rid of all unwanted apps and languages.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: gus6464
Congrats on your new machine. One thing i recommend all new mac owners is to format the machine and do a reinstall to get rid of all the unwanted apps and languages. Even macs come with bloatware if you are not going to use to applications (garageband, extra languages, ical, mail and whatnot). Garageband itself uses around 3gb of space. You will also save close to a gig by just installing english language of the OS. A new macbook comes with about 20gb of used hard drive space from the store and you can trim it down to 10gb by getting rid of all unwanted apps and languages.

Gus is right that new Macs do come with a lot of software, but I wouldn't necessarily call it bloatware. It is extra software that you may not want, but some of it is nice to have. In addition to reinstalling so that you can put on just what you want, I would also suggest getting XSlimmer, which runs about $12. This will eliminate all the unneeded code and languages from your programs so they will start up faster and use less space on teh hard drive. Universal Binaries, your new best friend, still have the code in them so they can work on a PowerPC system, but you don't need that and what happens is that you start the program, it runs a check to see what Proc you have, then starts up the appropriate version of the software. By getting rid of the PowerPC parts of the program (on an IntelMac) you can save space and get rid of that extra load time.