Although we won't claim that the Inquirer is a great pillar of 'net journalism, it does pass along some interesting information. Today, they're claiming that Apple won't release a Merom-based notebook until sometime in 2007.
Sources deep within Intel tell us everything is going swimmingly for the new MCW cores, but Apple won't produce a laptop with Merom until 2007. The delay is most likely due to a convergence of two things, production and Apple's limited range.
So, said trickle means that you don't put the few Meroms you get in anything but the highest end lowest volume models of your lineup. If you have a dozen models, you might pick one to be graced by the new wondercore. If you are Apple with two or four models, depending on how you count, then you can't really get enough to supply even one model.
What this means is Apple is faced with putting out laptops that have cases made of real unobtanium, or they can wait and roll it out right. Since it is mole migration season, I have been asking many of the little critters streaming past my house, and they all say that iMeromBooks are a 2007 product.
There are a few reasons why this might make sense. First, it would be somewhat odd for Apple to update the iMac and Mac Mini lines yesterday while holding off on a Merom notebook that was ready to ship. Secondly, the notebook lines are doing quite well without Merom, so Apple may simply lack motivation.
There are still 115 days left in 2006, however, each one bringing the opportunity for a manifestation of Steve's whims. We'll see what happens.
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