Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Quad Core iMacs, coming soon!

Intel is preparing a shrunk Quad core processors for notebook computers. Obviously this is targeted to the high end notebook market, and I'm questioning the feasibility of it, not in terms if it can be done, but I'm questioning power consumption and heating issues, there has been plenty of  stories recently about notebook computers catching fire, an extra two processors wont cool things off at all. I don't see them as suitable to notebooks, too many possible problems, and power users will continue to use a desktop to do serious computations not a laptop. In general most users are better off with a faster single or dual core than a more expensive and slower quad core, unless your work involves a lot of simulation and graphics rendering.

This brings me to the topic of the Quad iMac, as it is known the iMac uses notebook class electronics in an integrated all-in-one desktop form factor, and now that it is official, Quads are coming to notebooks, we can only wait. Hopefully Apple would sort out the cooling issues, some extra vents and fans wont hurt, because I've been waiting for a Quad core iMac for a long time.

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