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I was reading Wikipedia's article on the Core Duo and came across a yet to be released newer version of the Duo, codenamed Merom, the successor to Yonah, the current chip in new intel macs. Merom is supposed to outdo Yonah by 20% with respects to performance with no notable differences in power consumption. Scheduled to be released in fourth quarter of 2006, I was wondering what effects this would have on the mac line of products, especially the unreleased macbook and the other macbook pro sizes (granted they have them).

Now in the past, whenever the powepc chips were upgraded, apple always followed up with newer models...

Now that apple isn't running the powerpc line, I'm curious as to whether they will continue to update at intel's pace, or whether they will hold the current version of the duo for x years then release a mega update...

thoughts anyone?