Living proudly inside most new Macs is a microprocessor that offers an entire collection of revolutions � shrunk into an unimaginably small space. It�s the Intel Core Duo, the most advanced Intel chip on the market today.
With an Intel Core Duo, plus other engineering leaps, your new Mac will do all those things that only Macs can do � and do so at astonishing performance levels. We�ve measured new Macs to be up to five times faster than previous generations. And it�s not just theoretical performance. You�ll notice the speed for all the things you do: from enhancing the family photos to rendering special effects for a feature film, even launching programs and scrolling long web pages.
What is this new chip? The result of massive R&D effort involving thousands of engineers from the world�s leading chip maker, the Intel Core Duo represents an order-of-magnitude leap in processor design. It�s actually two processor cores engineered onto a single chip � offering virtually twice the computational power of a traditional single processor in the same space.*
As the Intel Core processor powers your Mac, it does so in a most extraordinary way: by consuming less energy. That�s due to the way the cores work together to share resources, and how they are designed to conserve power when their functions aren�t required. Because Intel Core processors perform so efficiently, new Macs can be both super-powerful and elegantly slim. Like the MacBook Pro, which is just one inch thin and as little as 5.6 pounds light. Or the iMac, which packs the entire computer and a huge widescreen display into a space previously reserved just for a monitor.
What�s an Intel chip doing inside a Mac? A lot more than it ever did inside a PC.
* Even the Intel Core Solo � the same powerful chip but with just one processor core � delivers seriously impressive performance in one of the two Mac mini configurations.
