[geeks] Nice (large) laptop

[Michael Parson]

On Feb 8, 2010, at Feb 8, 2010 3:26 PM, Nadine Miller wrote:

> On Feb 7, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>> On Feb 7, 2010, at 8:44 PM, "Jonathan J. M. Katz"  
>> <jon at jonworld.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm wondering how capable a hackintosh this would be ....
>>
>> It would be an "unusual" (not normal) chipset with a "unknown" CPU  
>> (i7)...

> I think there would be some significant hurdles for a hackintosh...  
> Probably
> doable, but I would expect a performance hit by using these parts in a
> 'compatibility' mode...
> i5 is supported; I believe i7 is as well, while i3 is not.  New  
> iMacs are i5;
> assumption is that the next rev might be i7, or that new Mac Pros  
> are i7? I
> can't recall.

The quad-core 27" iMac is i7 based.

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Michael Parson
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