Question about processors

As of today ( things change rapidly with Intel now), Intel has a microarchitechure chip design it calls core. Within the core chips it has several varients designed for different markets. The 'merom' core 2 is a mobile varient with a max clock speed of 2.33 ghz and a FSb of 667 mhz. It's in the iMac, MBP and MB. The 'conroe' varient is designed for desktop pcs and has clock speeds from between 1.83 ghz to 2.9 ghz. The fsb is 1066 mhz. 'Woodcrest' chips are the Xeon core chips. They are for servers and workstations. They have a max clockspeed of 3.0 ghz and come in quad core versions (conroe do as well or will very soon). Woodcrest have 1.3 ghz fsb. These are used in Mac Pros. Apple do not use conroe chips at this time.

There are currently available Xeon-branded chips that have slower FSBs as well, though as Backtomac points out, the Woodcrest and Clovertown chips in the current Mac Pro have faster FSBs than available Core 2 processors. Intel currently sells at least a few Xeon product lines and 3 Core 2 product lines. The single distinguishing factor between Xeons and everything else is cache size, although the top-end FSB speeds of the Xeon line are somewhat higher.

Intel are pumping out product so fast it's hard to keep up.

hmm very interesting.. lol but ya i agree with the last two posts, very confusing and hard to keep up!