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Im goning to be purchasing a MacPro at some point and I was wondering if I should wait for the mac to change over to the 45nm Intel chips that are coming this year. Does anyone have any idea on when and if Apple will come out with a new MacPro that will support the new chips? I have checked AnandTech.com and other sites but there isnt any info. If anyone has some good infor please provide a link.

 

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Harpertown is 45nm.

 

From Wikipedia:

Harpertown is said to be a 45 nm, quad-core processor based on Intel's upcoming Penryn microarchitecture with 12 MiB of L2 cache. An older rumour stated that it was simply the 45 nm shrink of Woodcrest, but that has since changed.

 

Harpertown, which will succeed the current 65 nm Clovertown processors (Xeon 5300 series), will receive 5400 sequence number, with X, E, and L letters indicating performance, regular and low-power versions of the CPU. A LINPACK benchmark shows that a dual Harpertown system could sustain 80 GFLOPS and peak at 102 GFLOPS.

  • 3 weeks later...

Well if Apple does indeed launch a new model of Macbook Pros at their "event" this February then you can pretty much bet on them being 45nm Penryns. Also judging by the amount of chatter on the topic of MBP Refresh, I'm pretty sure that a new model is on the verge. If you are planning to invest in a new MBP it never hurts to wait a few weeks ;)

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