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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 3262755" data-attributes="member: 360">A quad-core MacBook Pro is unlikely, because Intel doesn't have any short-term plans for a quad-core notebook CPU (the 65nm dual-die design used for the Core 2 Quad QX6700 and Xeon 53xx is too power-ineficient for notebooks -- or for an iMac / Mac Mini). But they are launching 800 MHz FSB notebook Core 2 Duos with the Santa Rosa chipset later this year (and 1333 MHz FSB desktop Core 2 Duos), and I'd be shocked if there's not a new spin of MacBooks and MacBook Pros that uses them.I suspect quad core chips are going to stay stuck in the server/high-end workstation/extreme gaming space a lot longer than dual cores did; the third and fourth core just don't help anywhere near as much in normal business apps (or games) as the second does.</blockquote>