One question I haven’t seen asked anywhere yet is this: will the Macs that come with ‘Intel Inside’ be processor-upgradeable? That’s one nice thing about PC hardware, at least for the people who want to suck some more life out of an older computer: take out the old processor and replace it with a newer one.
So, say I buy a Mac Mini 3.6 Ghz (or whatever they come out with) with Intel… wouldn’t it be nice to be able to just pop in a 5.5 Ghz processor a year or two later?
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Well, you can do that now, to a point, with most other Macs. Apple themselves doesn’t sell the upgrade chips or kits, but there are several companies who do. Heck, people are still using the “old” Mac G4 cubes, upgrading processors as time goes on.
Apple doesn’t make it easy or really advertise that you can do it, but it’s possible.
Yeah, I’m aware of that… I did it with my Bondi blue iMac when I still had it. All I’m wondering is: will I be able to buy a stock Pentium chip off the shelf, open up the computer, pop out the old and pop in the new?
Mac CPU upgrade manufacturers often made a mint on their upgrade solutions. I used to sell them when I worked for Computertown. The nice thing about the x86 processors is that they’re a commodity and pretty damned near everywhere. As a result… it’s easy and fairly cheap to buy a new one.
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