AnandTech is reporting on Intel’s recent announcements regarding the company’s forthcoming, lower-powered, quad-core chips. These chips would use less power than the company’s current Sandy Bridge chips, while offering a 35-watt quad-core Core i7. This 35-watt design could be used in Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Pro. At this moment, 45-watt quad-core chips are only offered in […]
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Intel’s New Ivy Bridge CPU Architecture Could Pave the Way for Smaller MacBook Pros

Sep 16th 2011 by

Screen Shot 2011-09-15 at 6.45.57 PM.pngAnandTech is reporting on Intel’s recent announcements regarding the company’s forthcoming, lower-powered, quad-core chips. These chips would use less power than the company’s current Sandy Bridge chips, while offering a 35-watt quad-core Core i7.

This 35-watt design could be used in Apple’s 13-inch MacBook Pro. At this moment, 45-watt quad-core chips are only offered in the 15 and 17-inch MacBook Pro models due to their larger thermal envelope. When this new 35-watt quad-core is released, it’s cooler running temperatures would function well in the 13-inch model.

On the other side of this equation, are the rumors that Apple will be introducing a new case design, one similar to the MacBook Air, for the MacBook Pro line of computers. So a spiffy new, low-powered, yet powerful chip could mean that Apple will make it’s move and ditch the optical drives, and slim down their MacBook Pros. Food for thought.

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