A new rumour implies that Apple could make a small revolution with its next range of iMacs.
Currently, these machines are designed by the engineers at Apple to be like 'office portables', using many the components intended for the mobile machines. This allows them to be very thin, making them appear as being just a screen.
This rumour announced that Apple could give up this approach and use the Core i7 architecture of the desktop machines. Although we are skeptical on this change of direction, it does make sense in the current context for the following advantages:
- For the first time since ages, certainly since Apple moved to the Intel processors, there is a marked difference between its two product ranges (office and mobile). If the desktop machines pass to Nehalem, the portables will still have to wait a year for this change of architecture.
- The Nehalem architecture brings
