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Apple's popular mobile laptop computer range, the MacBook Pro's are due for an update shortly. The update is rumoured to use Intel's latest mobile chip, codenamed Arrandale which is a dual-core, 4 thread processor and also features Intel's Turbo boost technology found on the desktop Lynnfield processors and various others. Arrandale chips are named Core i3, i5 and i7 and range from 1.06 GHz to 2.66 GHz. Arrandale benchmarks show a 20% improvement in performance over Penryn systems with no loss of battery life.

Intel announced Arrandale at CES 2010 in Las Vegas on January 7th, less than a week later Intel ran a competition for members of their Retail Edge program to go in the running for one of two MacBook Pro laptops with an Intel i5 processor. Intel later changed the prize to a HP Envy.

February 4th saw the leak of a MacBook Pro 6,1 Geekbench score with an Intel Core i7 M 620 Arrandale processor which scored an amazing 5260 (32 bit mode), current MacBook Pro's usually have a Geekbench score of 3000 to 4000.

Best Buy have been on the forefront of the MacBook Pro rumours with photographs of their inventory system showing the current laptops status' as deleted. Another Best Buy store later informed MacRumors that the laptops where deleted because that store does not carry Apple computers.

Yesterday Best Buy was at it again with the above photography of their inventory system with three placeholder SKU's for Apple computers. The SKU's have no mention of MacBook Pro's but could represent each base model (13", 15" and 17".)

Finally the picture above best sums up when the update will most likely occur but only Steve Jobs know exactly when. Until then, we will have to wait.

Best of luck,

Meh.