Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/11/intel_sandy_bridge_apple_macbook_air/
Sandy Bridge MacBook Airs inbound
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Posted in Laptops, 11th February 2011 17:03 GMT
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Apple will update its MacBook Air family of ultra-skinny laptops with Intel's second-generation Core i chips [1] in Q2.
A mole said to be familiar with Apple's plans whispered to Cnet [2] that the update will come in June.
The 11.6in and 13.3in Air currently contain Core 2 Duo CPUs and Nvidia chipsets. Switching to Sandy Bridge processors would allow Apple to modernise the line's processor and use cheaper Intel graphics [3] without too much of a performance hit.
The roll-out of Sandy Bridge-based systems was recently disrupted by a chipset glitch [4] affecting the platform's Sata storage support.
The bug is being fixed [5], but it will knock back the released of anticipated Sandy Bridge machines like the MacBook Pro revamp World+Dog expects to take place during the next month or two. ®
Links
- http://www.reghardware.com/2011/02/01/review_laptop_sandybridge_whitebook/
- http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20031434-64.html
- http://www.reghardware.com/2010/12/09/apple_goes_intel_for_graphics/
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/31/intel_coougar_point_chipset_flaw/
- http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/01/31/intel_cougar_point_update/