Living proudly inside most new Macs is a microprocessor that offers an entire collection of revolutions — shrunk into an unimaginably small space. It’s the Intel Core Duo, the most advanced Intel chip on the market today.
With an Intel Core Duo, Intel Core 2 Duo, or Intel Xeon processor, plus other engineering leaps, your new Mac will do all those things that only Macs can do — and do so at astonishing performance levels. We’ve measured new Macs to be up to seven times faster than previous generations.1 And it’s not just theoretical performance. You’ll notice the speed for all the things you do: from enhancing the family photos to rendering special effects for a feature film, even launching programs and scrolling long web pages.
What is this new chip? The result of massive R&D effort involving thousands of engineers from the world’s leading chip maker, the Intel Xeon, Intel Core Duo, and Intel Core 2 Duo represents an order-of-magnitude leap in processor design. They include two processor cores engineered onto a single chip — offering virtually twice the computational power of a traditional single processor in the same space.
As the Intel Core processor powers your Mac, it does so in a most extraordinary way: by consuming less energy. That’s due to the way the cores work together to share resources, and how they are designed to conserve power when their functions aren’t required. Because Intel Core processors perform so efficiently, new Macs can be both super-powerful and elegantly slim. Like the MacBook Pro, which is just one inch thin and as little as 5.6 pounds light.2 Or the iMac, which packs the entire computer and a huge widescreen display into a space previously reserved just for a monitor.
What’s an Intel chip doing inside a Mac? A lot more than it ever did inside a PC.
- Based on estimated SPECint_rate_base2000 results for the 2.33GHz 17-inch MacBook Pro with Core 2 Duo. Testing conducted by Apple in October 2006 using preproduction MacBook Pro units with Core 2 Duo; MacBook Pro systems with Core Duo and PowerBook G4 systems were shipping units. SPEC® and SPECint are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC); see www.spec.org for more information.
- Actual weight varies by configuration and manufacturing process.
