Apple Rumored to be Ignoring Centrino 2 Chipset

[zatoicchi]

Chicago (IL) - AppleInsider recently ran a story that got us scratching our heads. Apparently, Apple’s upcoming notebooks will not transition to Intel’s Centrino 2 (Montevina) chipset. It could be business as usual or it could be another sign of Apple’s growing purchasing power that enables the company to milk Intel. Sources however suggest that Apple could be returning to custom chipset design to differentiate its products from the competition.

Apple Insider cites people "familiar with these plans" that claim a "trio of redesigned" notebooks will not adopt Montevina and the new "new wave of Macs may have little or nothing to do with Intel at all."

This statement is somewhat surprising, as most Mac announcements over the past two years were all about Intel. Apple transitioned its higher-end notebooks and iMacs quickly to a new Intel platform (Santa Rosa) and we know of at least two "special SKU" processors that were made available to Apple only. So is it business as usual and these new notebooks are just lower-end models (read: not Macbook Pro) that won’t get the privilege of running Centrino 2? Perhaps. Your guess is as good as ours.

Apple Rumored to be Ignoring Centrino 2 Chipset (http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Apple-macbook-pro-Centrino-intel,news-28837.html)

[Aurion]

"It could be business as usual or it could be another sign of Apple’s growing purchasing power that enables the company to milk Intel"

IMO,this is the deal,no new versions of apple should hit the market soon since their last chipset is already released earlier so this would be one of market competitors rumors

[anon]

My guess is that they have a good reason :tongue:

[Aurion]

My guess is that they have a good reason :tongue:

maybe,but their chances are narrow tho !! anyway,lets see what happens next