With all this talk about the Yonah's going into Macs I was wondering how big the benefit there would be with battery life with the Low-votage and "Profomance" chips.
runninmac said:With all this talk about the Yonah's going into Macs I was wondering how big the benefit there would be with battery life with the Low-votage and "Profomance" chips.
robbieduncan said:Measuring power consumption of just the CPU does not really make much sense when it comes to Yonah. It will be deployed as part of a Centrino platform consisting of CPU, Core Logic and wireless card. It has been reported that Intels latest wireless chip/card uses less power than it's competitors.
I would not be surprised if the total power consumption is less than the G4/Interpid/Airport Extreme combo we have now
I don't think that is a very accurate assessment.topgunn said:To estimate the battery life of the new machines, look no further than current Pentium M based notebooks.
mojohanna said:I think I read somewhere the the yonah chip is 28% more efficient than intel's current chips for laptops. They are expecting 5 hour batterly life with out a problem from what the article said. Sorry I don't remember where I saw it.
BlizzardBomb said:Even if dual core does find its way into the iBook, I don't think they'd want to go down in battery life (5 hours vs. 6 hours).
mduser63 said:Yes, but I've never seen an iBook that actually gets 6 hours (or even 5). Apple overstates battery life for their laptops.
Yes, but not nearly as much as other vendors do in my experience.mduser63 said:Apple overstates battery life for their laptops.
This is Apple we are talking about, you aint going to have dual cores in a ibook, Powerbook maybeBlizzardBomb said:Even if dual core does find its way into the iBook, I don't think they'd want to go down in battery life (5 hours vs. 6 hours).