<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 21px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3" style="font-size: 21px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">The extra power and efficiency of this new chip might be your optimal choice... if you can hold out for a few months.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 21px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3" style="font-size: 21px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 21px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3" style="font-size: 21px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">... </SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">" Intel said it will formally announce Conroe on July 27. The chip maker is expected to ship 2.0GHz, 2.1GHz, and 2.33GHz variants of Merom with 4MB of L2 cache for performance gains of 20 percent over the previous-generation "Yonah" -- which is currently used in Apple's MacBook and MacBook Pro systems. Along with the performance increases and pure 64-bit architecture, the new laptop chips will be more power efficient, boasting the same power consumption at equivalent speeds. Industry watchers speculate that Apple will likely upgrade its high-end MacBook Pros to the new architecture before the holiday season."</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>=