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Originally Posted by Yonzie
You are looking at the wrong product mjteix.
The processors in the MBA are most comparable to the L7500 and L7700 (in special packages), so that's what you should look at.
Intel Specs (choose "Processor Numbers" then "Low Voltage Processors")
The special small package the MBA CPU is in necessitates a compromise on the voltage requirement, making them 20W TDP parts instead of the 17W of the L7[5|7]00 parts.
http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3203 |
No I'm not, we are talking about the
next rev of the MBA, not the current one.
The table above is one of the
upcoming Montevina cpus.
In the part number, S means
Small package, P means "regular Power", L means
Low-voltage, U means Ultra-low-voltage.
If the MBA receives new cpus later this year, those will certainly be the
SL9300/9400 (small package, low voltage). My point was that Apple could only use the SL9400 model (1.86GHz, $316) instead of offering both 1.60 ($284)/1.86GHz models because the price difference will be only $32. We don't know the price of the current custom cpus, but it could be quite different from the Montevina (regular manufacturing) ones.