Are the new iMacs Merom or Conroe?

Alright so I don't totally care whether my new iMac that is coming is a Merom or a Conroe, but I'd like to know. I can't believe that is anywhere in the specs. Does anyone know? Thanks.

Hello,
Okay cool. You would think they would put that on the
spec sheet though...
Well, it is in there, kind-of. The show that the bus speed is lower.
But, they obviously don't want to advertise that they picked the slower of the Core2Duo products. That isn't something that they're going to want to draw attention to.
It really works in their favor that Intel decided to call both products Core2Duo instead of calling the Merom by the Centrino name and Conroe by Core2Duo.
If Intel had kept the distinctive names, Apple would have a harder time convincing us to buy a Centrino-based desktop because it would be very obvious it was being powered by a mobile processor.
But, with Intel calling them both Core2Duo, only the people who really, really care are going to look and see what it is using.
I think they probably are best leaving the details out when it comes to marketing. They still won't sell one to me (I was wanting Conroe). But, they'll sell tons of them to people who only look at the surface and see "Core2Duo".

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