One of the key design requirements of Core Duo was low power consumption, with a target draw of 25 Watts or less, although the top-end 2.16 GHz Core Duo ended up consuming 31 Watts.
Apple used the Core Solo CPU only in the 1.66 GHz Mac mini. There is speculation that Intel did this to unload CPUs with a defect in just one core. The Core Duo was Intel’s first dual-core mobile processor, and it was used in all first generation Intel Macs save one, the single-core Mac mini Core Solo.Ĭode named Yonah, the first generation of Intel Core processors came in single- and dual-core versions the Core Solo is identical to the Core Duo except that it has one of its two processor cores disabled.
When Apple made the switch from PowerPC CPUs to Intel in 2006, the state-of-the-art CPU was Intel’s Core Duo processor, which was based on Intel’s 32-bit Pentium M architecture, which was originally designed for mobile use.
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