xlr8yourmac.com— A Japanese magazine has reported that a 17" Intel iMac had it's processor upgraded from the 1.83 Ghz to 2.0 Ghz without issue. The processors apparenty are not soldered on!! Sounds like good news!!
Jan 30, 2006View in Crawl 4
"Not necessarily DullesGuy... The setup in the machines in regards to bus speeds and multipliers could have well been hard wired to the particular chip, knowing apple. This is confirmation of what most people have been *assuming*, and you know what they say about people who are too keen to assume something...." -neon- it is not assuming, it would cost more to lock each system down to a specific clock speed than it does to make a board that supports a range of processors. besides from a technical view the chipset and cpu both support "enhanced intel speedstep technology" which is a way to dynamically change core voltage and clock frequency on the fly based on demand, this helps increase battery life. by default these systems support multiple clock speeds, multipliers, and core voltages.
After reading another mod on that website, I wondered, Why do mac user's thing doing small changes is worth making a website?Leave mac's as they are, there's nothing cool you can do with them.-jeffrey
For all those complaining about Macs not being upgradable, there has been after market Mac upgrades for years. You could swap CPUs in Quadras from 1991, add extra ethernet cards, upgrade to PPC, use standard SCSI hard disks and RAM. Macs have always been upgradable. Exceptions to this have been all in one Macs, and even those have upgrade paths.The only thing that's changed here is that Intel CPUs will likely be more inexpensive than PPC upgrades were.
master_of_fmJan 31, 2006
"Not necessarily DullesGuy... The setup in the machines in regards to bus speeds and multipliers could have well been hard wired to the particular chip, knowing apple. This is confirmation of what most people have been *assuming*, and you know what they say about people who are too keen to assume something...." -neon- it is not assuming, it would cost more to lock each system down to a specific clock speed than it does to make a board that supports a range of processors. besides from a technical view the chipset and cpu both support "enhanced intel speedstep technology" which is a way to dynamically change core voltage and clock frequency on the fly based on demand, this helps increase battery life. by default these systems support multiple clock speeds, multipliers, and core voltages.
ohsh1rtJan 31, 2006
After reading another mod on that website, I wondered, Why do mac user's thing doing small changes is worth making a website?Leave mac's as they are, there's nothing cool you can do with them.-jeffrey
Closed AccountJan 31, 2006
For all those complaining about Macs not being upgradable, there has been after market Mac upgrades for years. You could swap CPUs in Quadras from 1991, add extra ethernet cards, upgrade to PPC, use standard SCSI hard disks and RAM. Macs have always been upgradable. Exceptions to this have been all in one Macs, and even those have upgrade paths.The only thing that's changed here is that Intel CPUs will likely be more inexpensive than PPC upgrades were.
mattvJan 31, 2006
granny smith 4 life.
neon__Jan 31, 2006
Ahh, nothing like a bit of fan modding ;) I kid, you wouldn't want to live in a hot area :)
thefilmguyFeb 1, 2006
This may hurt Apple with sales of new systems, but it means that at least for a while current users won't have to upgrade as often.