New MacBook Pros have been a long time coming, but Macworld Australia has apparently heard from sources that new MacBook Pro models will be announced next Tuesday, April 13. No further evidence has come to light suggesting this is true, apart from Best Buy magically disappearing away the 15-inch model on its site, but Macworld reckons their friend is “familiar with Apple product cycles and inventory levels.”
I’ve got plenty of questions about this report (like, who the hell is Apple Daily?), but a lot of the pieces fit: rumour has it that Core i5 and i7 MacBooks are coming this month. This would be great news, for people who want MacBooks!
Two of the more interesting Core chips in the pipe from Intel, at least for gamers: The 32nm Core i5-655K (dual core), coming in June, and the 45nm Core i7-875K (quad core), coming in July, both have unlocked multipliers, meaning it’s way easier to overclock the crap out of ‘em. They will be expensive. [DigiTimes]
We’ve seen more than a few Core i5 notebooks recently, all of which have been hamstrung by Intel’s weak integrated graphics. Now, Nvidia’s Optimus enables their discrete GPUs to work in current-generation Intel PCs, whether Intel likes it or not.
Dell’s Precision M6500 is the next in an increasingly long line of notebooks upgrading to Core i5, but it’s one of the first to ship with an optional USB 3.0 port.
Sony just announced a few colourful Core i3/i5 notebooks, and now HP is following suit with its new G62t. Its design closely resembles HP’s $US1300 Envy, but you’ll pay less than half of that for the G62t’s base configuration.
