Actually, not so much. More custom chips to condense the hardware, but the processors haven't changed much in the last decade or so. 3 GHz is the operational limit for silicon without serious cooling (read liquid nitrogen) and eight cores seems to be the point at which task managing software eats so much overhead you don't get more processing power.
They use less power due to smaller chip count (and the new MBs are about the same size as a 5 1/4" hard drive) but circuitry wise they are very, very similar. Mature technology, even the number of transistors per square inch isn't going up much these days. Peter _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
