Hardware update rumours on MBP

Here anyone with any information on future updates on the gpu or/and cpu on the MBP are wellcome to post here.

Cheers,

 

Nopes. Not going to update until at least January 2008. There's nothing they can update it with right now, the last update was in June and any update now is too soon.

So don't expect a MBP update until January at the soonest. The 17-inch MBP may get LED-backlit screens soon though, but I expect no other hardware updates.

 

This is speculation.

I personally expect them to update the MBP to a Penryn CPU in November or early December. Of course, I can't be certain that they'll do that.

Edit: Sorry, maybe I misunderstood some stuff... Looking at some articles now it looks like the notebook version of the Penryn CPUs won't be launched until early 2008... so in that case, they won't be available in the MBP before that.

 

its educated speculation.

 

Here's some news provided by Engadget on the release of Intel's Penryn processors. Like the others mentioned, one can only speculate when Apple will implement these new laptop processors.

"Hot on the heels of Intel's mobile Core 2 Extreme X7900 comes word that the chip maker has eleven 45-nanometer CPUs in the backroom just waiting to take the laptop scene by storm. DigiTimes has it that Intel will indeed launch the five Penryns we heard about recently "in the first quarter of 2008," and also notes that Q2 holds six more chips destined for the Montevina platform. More specifically, "sources at motherboard makers" suggested that the Q2-bound processors will consume between 25 and 35-watts of energy, sport a 1,066MHz front-side-bus, boast between 3MB and 6MB of L2 cache, and feature clock speeds ranging from 2.13GHz to 3.06GHz. As expected, no model numbers have been assigned just yet, and considering that Intel "declined the opportunity to respond to this report," we suppose you should tuck this all away in the rumor folder for the time being."

 

Penryn won't be needed, it only adds another .2GHz for their higher end platform. Wait 'till late 2008 for a major change in speed. Possibly quad core mobile processors.