Of the 836 people that voted, 38.2 per cent said that they were most excited about the Ivy Bridge processors making their way into new MacBooks.

its Ivy Bridge processors in April, and it is expected that Apple will be . The Ivy Bridge processor family is the third generation in the company's line of Core processors. The set of quad-core processors are made for desktops, all-in-ones, and high-end laptops.

for a new 2012 MacBook Pro have emerged on Geekbench, despite new models being unreleased. These benchmark results show a MacBook Pro with an Ivy Bridge Core i7-3820QM quad-core running at 2.7GHz.

Intel's Vice President Kirk Skaugen revealed that the new processors are built for Retina displays.

Adding Retina displays to the MacBook Pro could cost Apple an extra £63, the price of the laptop. AlanAudio wrote in the Macworld forums that he thinks the killer feature of the new MacBook Pros would be an aggressive price, but a second Macworld forum user, Xhris2210 said that he doesn't expect Apple to reduce the price of the new models. However, an increase in price doesn't seem to be deterring potential new MacBook Pro buyers, according to a .