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About model A1226

Is this macbook pro model A1226 with Merom og Penryn processor?


/Tomb

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Posted on Aug 3, 2009 2:05 AM

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Aug 3, 2009 2:55 AM in response to sig

Hey sig,

sig wrote:
It's this model:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/stats/macbook-pro-core-2-duo-2 .2-15-santa-rosa-specs.html

So it's a Santa Rosa not a Penryn.

(Amazing info can found by just googling).


Ooh, ooh. We appear to have a difference of opinion. 😉

I got my info from MacTracker:

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid/Late 2007, 2.4/2.2GHz)
Codename:
Introduced: June 2007
Discontinued: February 2008
Machine ID: MacBookPro3,1
Model Number: A1226
Order Number: MA895LL (2.2 GHz), MA896LL (2.4 GHz)
Initial Price: $1,999 (2.2 GHz) $2,499 (2.4 GHz) USD
Support Status: Supported
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (T7500, T7700, T7800) ("Merom")
Number of Cores: 2
Processor Speed: 2.2, 2.4, or 2.6 GHz

Kryten
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Aug 3, 2009 2:56 AM in response to sig

Hey sig,

sig wrote:
It's this model:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/stats/macbook-pro-core-2-duo-2 .2-15-santa-rosa-specs.html

So it's a Santa Rosa not a Penryn.

(Amazing info can found by just googling).


Ooh, ooh. We appear to have a difference of opinion. 😉

I got my info from MacTracker:

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid/Late 2007, 2.4/2.2GHz)
Codename:
Introduced: June 2007
Discontinued: February 2008
Machine ID: MacBookPro3,1
Model Number: A1226
Order Number: MA895LL (2.2 GHz), MA896LL (2.4 GHz)
Initial Price: $1,999 (2.2 GHz) $2,499 (2.4 GHz) USD
Support Status: Supported
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo (T7500, T7700, T7800) ("Merom")
Number of Cores: 2
Processor Speed: 2.2, 2.4, or 2.6 GHz

Kryten
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Aug 3, 2009 7:14 AM in response to -Kryten-

I believe "Santa Rosa" is an Apple model codename, whereas "Merom" and Penryb" are Intel processor names. Common usage seems to be to use the Apple name "Santa Rosa" for the Late 2007, but for some reason the late 2008s get called by the Intel name.

So you're both right.
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Aug 3, 2009 7:45 AM in response to sig

sig wrote:
Kryten how many times must you post the same thing? I get the point. However, I do believe it's a Santa Rosa.

There was a glitch in the Matrix sig. Every time I hit the 'Post Message' button I was taken to a page saying 'Sorry the forums are not currently available, we will be back soon'.

So, I just kept hitting the 'Post Message' button again and again in the hope that it would get through not realising that my reply had already been posted but I could not see it.

I'm sure the Hosts are looking into it.

Kryten
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Aug 3, 2009 7:41 AM in response to sig

Hi sig,

I also have one and I call it a Santa Rosa, too. If I look farther down in the everymac.com link you posted for the Santa Rosa, the chart area shows under "processor type":

The Intel "Core 2 Duo" (T7500) 65 nm "Merom" processor includes two independent processor "cores" on a single silicon chip.


So SR is an Apple computer codename and Merom is an Intel processor name. I don't know why people started calling their early 2008 (machineID: macbookpro4,1) after the Intel name "Penryn" but it all seems something that users have come up with, not Apple.

I made a mistake in my other post--the "late 2008" should say "early 2008."
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Aug 3, 2009 7:52 AM in response to Allan Jones

Actually, "Santa Rosa" is an Intel name. There's really no such thing as a "Santa Rosa" in a Mac, since that code name technically applies to an Intel platform (others have included Napa and Sonoma) - comprising a processor, a chipset, and a wireless card. Of those, Apple only uses Intel's processors. So, it's a misnomer that's found it's way into common usage on these boards and elsewhere. The Santa Rosa platform used a Merom processor; the Santa Rosa Refresh platform actually used a Penryn processor (so, I suppose people used 'penryn' since 'santa rosa refresh' sounds too much like the original, or just plain silly, or something). The next platform from Intel (after the Santa Rosa Refresh) was Montevina, and also used the Penryn processor. The more recent Capella platform uses the Nehalem processor. And the partridge uses a pear tree. It's all in a name.

-Kryten- wrote:
Yeah, but I'm more rightererer than sig 'cus I have a t-shirt.


Btw, Sybil (or Kryten, or whoever you really are today), thanks for the preview pics in the WC - my wife tells me I have a package at home...and so far has restrained herself from asking what new toy I ordered... Once I put it on, do I get to be rightererererererererererer??

😉
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Aug 3, 2009 8:49 AM in response to neuroanatomist

neuroanatomist wrote:
Btw, Sybil (or Kryten, or whoever you really are today), thanks for the preview pics in the WC - my wife tells me I have a package at home...and so far has restrained herself from asking what new toy I ordered... Once I put it on, do I get to be rightererererererererererer??

😉


No worries DAVE... a pleasure.
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