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9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence: Digitimes thinks Quad-Core iMacs coming in 2009
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News: Quad-Core iMacs in January, Snow Leopard Drops in Q1 of 2009?
Ars Technica - Infinite Loop: Apple may release Snow Leopard as early as March '09
Digitimes thinks Quad-Core iMacs coming in 2009
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... Digitimes is this morning reporting that the early 2009 iMacs will have a little exxtra umph under the hood. In the form of new Intel Quad core 65W chips. ...
Quad-Core iMacs in January, Snow Leopard Drops in Q1 of 2009?
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... Digitimes is reporting that Apple is planning to move all of its all-in-one iMac machines to be powered by quad-core Intel chips. This would keep the iMacs extremely competitive within the market as they could increase power and keep costs relatively low. ...
Apple may release Snow Leopard as early as March '09
Ars Technica - Infinite Loop —
... years between Tiger and Leopard. Apple has said that Snow Leopard will include many under-the-hood changes that won't necessarily be obvious to end users, but will lay a foundation for future improvements. A big part of Snow Leopard's plumbing will deal with Grand Central and OpenCL, technologies designed to better utilize multicore processors and shift certain parallel computing tasks to massively multicore GPUs. With Apple using 16-core integrated GPUs in its latest notebooks and rumors of quad-core iMacs coming down the line, having an OS that can truly harness all that ...
Rumor: Quad-core iMacs
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... It's not even December, yet Macworld rumors are starting to fly. Digital Times is reporting that Apple is among the vendors ready to use Intel's new 65W low-power desktop CPUs, specifically designed for all-in-one computers. The lower heat output makes these great little chips for the iMac. ...
Here Is the Processor of the Furture iMac!?
HardMac.com —
Couple of days ago we were reporting about the future iMac revision and its hardware as Apple could drop the Intel mobile reference platform to use a desktop-oriented hardware. We were already mentioning the possibility of a desktop version of Core 2. Today, Digitimes brings new information to support our hypothesis by announcing that Apple, among other manufacturers, will use the new Intel desktop processor which should be unveiled in January. ...
Rumors swirling around new iMacs
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... Apple is expecting from Intel. Along with Acer, HP and Dell, Apple has decided to make use of these chips, according to DigiTimes, though their target machine has not been identified. DigiTimes claims that these chips are suited to small form factor and all-in-one PCs. ...

