Rumors suggest that Apple may be launching a refresh on its MacBook Pro laptops before the year ends, just in time for the holiday shopping season. The late-2011 MacBook Pro refresh is believed to include a minor speed upgrade with a new Intel Core processor. Other hardware and the exterior is reported to remain the same. According to a report by Apple news site AppleInsider,...
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Intel’s Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini has announced that an Intel Android phone will be launched in the first half of 2012. In his keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Otellini said that the chip on Intel-based smartphones is named Medfield, and is based on the company’s PC-based architecture. Andy Rubin, Android’s business...
The next couple of months should see the release of the 2011 generation of MacBook Air. Following rumours of an Apple switch from Intel processors it seems that they will instead utilise Intel Sandy Bridge processors. Most industry analysts believe that the new computers will come with a 1.7 to 1.8 GHz speed, although this increases with the turbo boost facility to a...
It seems that new Apple laptops and desktop computers are going to be built around different processors from now on if we are believe the latest talk from analysts. At the moment PCs from the tech firm use Intel produced CPUs but there are strong rumours in the market that they will be moving them onto ARM processors soon. Actually, “soon” might be a bit of an overstatement,...