Apple to move quickly on Merom-based systems
Unwilling to relent in its assault on the US notebook market, Apple Computer plans to adopt Intel Corp.’s latest mobile processors at a rapid pace, AppleInsider has learned. According to a source familiar with the Mac maker’s plans, the company is slated to receive mass shipments of the new Merom Core 2 Duo processors by the first week of September and plans to be amongst the first PC manufacturers to introduce systems based on the new chips. It will be interesting to see if Apple is the first company out the door with Intel Merom based products.
In the three-month period ending July 1st, Apple reported record-setting shipments of Mac systems, including nearly 800,000 notebooks — 75 percent of which the company estimated were Intel-based. So far, the success of Apple’s Intel systems has hinged on a single line of processors, the 32-bit Core Duo series formerly code-named Yonah. But in recent weeks, Intel has rolled-out far more capable chips in its 64-bit line of Core 2 Duo processors, including a mobile variant known by its code-named Merom.
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