Rumor: Sandy Bridge MacbookAir and Mac mini waiting on Lion to go GM

[Filliam H. Muffman]

cbelt3 wrote:
As long as they don't use the DEFECTIVE Sandy Bridge chips.....

The low power Sandy Bridge is new enough that it will have the fix, and it only affected computers that had more than 2 ports so no laptops had a problem (except for non-Apple laptops with things like eSATA or the behemoths that had 3 internal drives)

cbelt3 wrote: Intel Exec: "I know ! We'll sell those to Apple ! They'll never know !"
Intel QA guy: "Not a good idea. They'll switch back to Moto !"

:jest: Good one, Intel QA is one of the least important departments in the company. Moto never recovered from Intel poaching a third of their best PPC engineers.