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WillHoffert

Do you think the next update will have i7 Arrandale or i7 Clarksfield?

I am looking to buying either the 15" or 17" MacBook Pro next August (Tax free weekend!) and I will be using the education discount. I am reading all kinds of articles and forum posts about what processor will be in the next update. i7 are a given, but everywhere I have read that the quad-core Clarksfield is too hot to run in a thin system such as a unibody MacBook Pro, so they were saying that Arrandale will be used across the board, which I do not like because it is only dual core. I was reading that if they do use Clarksfield, it would only be in the 17", do you think that Clarksfield has a chance in any of the MacBook Pro's?
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geoffcritt

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They don't say on the Apple.com MBP page, but looking at the specs, it's an Arrandale. All the i7 CPUs listed on Apple.com for the MBP say they have 4MB of L3 cache. The minimum for Clarksfield is 6MB, and most have 8MB.
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