Intel Chip

Drew-

If putting an Intel chip in the new Macs doesn’t inspire a post, I think all hope is lost for you. This is allegedly a “revolutionary” event, and I can’t even get an explanation from an aspiring Genius Bar employee. Well, I did a little research of my own, and here is what Apple proclaims:

“This is the first Mac notebook built upon the revolutionary new Intel Core Duo — which is actually two processors (up to 1.83GHz) engineered onto a single chip. It provides 2MB of Smart Cache, L2 cache that can be shared between both cores as needed. It delivers higher performance in 2D and 3D graphics, video editing, and music encoding. And the new engine is only part of the story. MacBook Pro has a frontside bus and memory that, at 667MHz, runs faster than any previous Mac notebook. It’s the first Mac notebook with PCI Express, a Serial ATA hard drive and the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 for superfast graphics performance.”

Could you please shed some light on this historic moment? I am eager to know how sharing L2 cache and the ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 will improve this world.