Intel Giving Apple High End Processors for Macbook Pro

[bcredeur97]

apple wont be getting any K-series proccessors so i dont see the big deal:P

[martinrox1568]

Exactly! I'm actually kind of happy about this in a selfish way because I may be getting a MBP come September/October depending on other things. On the other hand though, it sucks for people like IBM and HP.  

someone's living in the past. IBM stopped making laptops in 2004. lol.

But yeah it does suck for other PC manufactures, but I bet Apple is probably paying some premium for these devices. You gotta pay to play my friend.

[SaerBear]

Business is business.  

If anyone you should be angry with Intel not Apple.  Intel consented to this, Apple only requested.

[YellowDragon]

I dont see this as a big deal, If you need to edit video or do high end tasks, not MS office products then you are probably already working on a desktop, simply put a laptop is a very poor excuse of an high end system, even if you dropped $3000 + on a laptop it would get the snot kicked out of it by the entry level CPUs on the desktop. Mobile will never replace the tower, as it costs money to shrink and it costs money to make smaller and lighter where as a component can be as heavy as a boat anchor in a desktop and offer the best of the best performance as they have no size constraints.

[n3m4c]

It's perfectly normal that rich customers get better binned parts...however, I think that rich pc manufacturers will get top end chips for their high end devices...Whoever pays the most gets the best...simple as that

[Ashwin]

So with the looming announcment of the Macbook Pro Haswell refresh, I found these articles stating that Intel will be providing "special top bin cream-of-the-crop GT3e selection" processors. It also says that with these special ones going to apple, it "leaves the slightly less desirable remains for Intel's other customers".

 

Original Article (you need a subscription however)

http://semiaccurate.com/2013/07/25/apple-gets-a-special-haswell-for-the-macbook-pro/

 

Macrumors Article (summarizes main article)

http://www.macrumors.com/2013/07/26/intel-to-supply-apple-with-special-high-end-haswell-processors-for-macbook-pro/

 

 

What do you guys think? Although I don't think its not fair because Apple will have to pay premium for top chips but if it affects the quality of processors that other laptops receive, it would be bad.

 

 

 

 

 

P.S. I hope there isn't already a topic on this! If there is Sorry for reposting!

 

I doubt that they would cost more, if anything the new gen would actually cost the same or slightly less than the older generation.