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CALIFORNIA – MacBook will soon say goodbye to Intel! Yes, Apple reportedly has negotiated with AMD to establish cooperation in adopting an alternative processor for Mac product in the future. According to reports Apple Insider, Sunday (18/4/2010), a group of representatives of AMD has been looking at the Apple Commuter Coach bus, while officials have identified executives attended the meeting and conference at the office diselanggarakan Apple.

“The meeting has been reported, including briefings by AMD, which t Apple to start work with AMD processors in the laboratory as part of an initiative to position the chip in some of their products to come,” wrote Apple Insider.

Much speculation has grown that Apple is working with AMD to broaden portensianya source for the CPU in order to increase flexibility and expand competitive choices. Moreover, Apple has made to meet the “problem” with a variety of Intel CPUs. “These include the limited availability of the new processor, which is rumored to have slowed Apple notebook refresh,” he added

If AMD really going to establish the partnership with Apple in developing the latest products on the Mac, the Mac will have some advantages that have been pinned  processor. Among others, the ability to develop x64 CPUs for the Mac. Competitive choice for future notebooks, and potentially 80 percent of the CPU performance and 60 percent in terms of cost compared with Intel-based processors.