Toshiba’s gone crazy with Intel’s latest Core i3, i5 and i7 processors, adding them to the Blu-ray playin’ Satellite A660, C650, L650 and L670. Sadly there’s no 13-inch options with the new chips, a decision Apple made with the MacBook Pros.
So the Australian press release for the updated MacBook Pro machines landed in my inbox overnight. Here are the key configurations and prices, copy and pasted for your pleasure:
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]
The new liquid-cooled Paladin XLC gaming PCs from iBuypower come loaded with Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Edition processors, 12GB of DD3 memory, a maximum of 1TB of storage and Blu-ray. They start at $US2159. [iBuypower via <a href="http://www.slashgear.com/ibuypower-paladin-comes-in-four-flavors-is-extremely-overclockable-1878240/]
