AC 12: Can a laptop still work in place of a 8 core machine?

[Chazz]

Decisions, desisions. I'm debating between an MacBook Pro 2.6ghz 17" and a new Mac Pro 8 core.

Maybe some of the beta testers can speak to this: Is the speed improvement in AC 12 on an 8 core beast really 4x better than on a laptop with just a single 2 core processor? I really love the portability of my current MacBook Pro but I spend a heck of a lot of time waiting for Atlantis and Archicad. Any input appreciated.

[Thomas Holm]

Chazz wrote:
... I as happy as I was...

A lot of money for not getting any happier...
and your wife didn't notice?

[Karl Ottenstein]

Karl wrote:
... the rumors are that the Macbook Pro will have a new 4 core intel chip this fall...

Perhaps September from other manufacturers...so maybe Apple will surprise us:

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/08/20/intel-discusses-mobile-nehalem-quad-core-notebooks-coming-next-m...

[Anonymous]

Karl wrote:

Karl wrote:
... the rumors are that the Macbook Pro will have a new 4 core intel chip this fall...

Perhaps September from other manufacturers...so maybe Apple will surprise us:

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/08/20/intel-discusses-mobile-nehalem-quad-core-notebooks-coming-next-m...

By my reading of the smoke signals it seems likely. But I really don't know any more than I read in the rumors sites. The big questions for me are will it support eight megs or only four and will it have the 1GB Quadro FX2700M?