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GreenMacApple

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Feb 6, 2008
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Hi everyone! Does anyone know if macbook air will have integrated nvidia cards in the future? Thanks!
 

clayj

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Jan 14, 2005
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No one except Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive and perhaps some Apple engineers know this. Maybe there's a way to shoehorn a dedicated video processor with its own memory into MBA v2, but it would be all speculation at this point.
 

Mal

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Jan 6, 2002
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I wouldn't expect it before the MacBook gets them, although it's certainly possible (very improbable though, both from a size and from a heat standpoint).

jW
 

malone

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Jan 24, 2008
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If only they would put dual overclocked GeForce 8800 Ultras in the MBA... Then all the X3100 naysayers would hush up. :(
 

szandor

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Sep 19, 2007
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i really want one of these for linux. once they can shove dedicated graphics in this thing, i'm sold. [dueling banjos]apple sure does make some of the purtiest electronics i tell you what.[/dueling banjos]
 

joegomolski

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Apr 28, 2006
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I agree it would be nice to have dedicated graphics. But I don't think we'll ever see it.

The market for the MBA does not include users of heavy duty graphics, that's the MBP.

The heat generated by a dedicated graphics card would not go well with the design of the MBA.

And think what it would do to battery life.
 
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