I believe the original dates were based on the fact that while OS upgrades have recently come out on Fridays, product updates have always been announced on a Tuesday - so those were the closest Tuesdays to those dates.
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I believe the original dates were based on the fact that while OS upgrades have recently come out on Fridays, product updates have always been announced on a Tuesday - so those were the closest Tuesdays to those dates.
Sorry, I didn't realize your post was directed at me; sleep deprived lol. I said no later than November 6 because I was merely rehashing the rumors flying around. It sounds like it will be this Tuesday or next Tuesday, Nov 6th, so I was just saying that we're waiting for an update that will likely be on Nov 6. Me, I'm going to wait until after Thanksgiving if they haven't updated it by the 13th.
Ahhh. Well that sounds like a good course of action because odds are that the macbook will get an update a little before Thanksgiving.
lol yeah. Apple will have 'had' to release their new MB by Black Friday to sell the new product for the holiday season. Nothing to boost your figures like a $100 discount on your new hardware to have lines outside the store full of people wanting to buy.
That's true, but something tells me that the iPod touch and the iPhone are going to be the major attractions on Black Friday.
GMA X3100 with its Vertex Shaders enabled with new drivers under Vista/XP is typically about twice as fast as GMA950, more in some software, less in others.
IT WORKS!
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IT WORKS!
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i guess i am at a loss as to what i am looking at there. Leopard, running on what?
Non-Apple hardware more then likely but the driver is working.
I don't see much harm in someone showing that it does work at least.
Sure, the performance probably isn't fantastic at this stage relative to what the chip is capable of. Apple have traditionally taken several revisions to get driver performance up to scratch. That aside, some benchies (and no, I won't run XBench. It's a waste of space and proves nothing.):
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Didn't Apple downgrade the GMA950 in the Macbook? I'm pretty sure they'd do the same with the X3100.
And about those benchmarks, would I be able to play Half-Life 2 and CoD2 at the MB's resolution with medium settings? I believe the GMA950 could handle those pretty decently at 800x600 and low settings.
If they again ship a crippled product unable to handle even old games my money goes to some other company.
Here's a short article on the drivers
http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/10/28/drivers.hint.at.macbooks/
http://www.electronista.com/articles/07/10/28/drivers.hint.at.macbooks/
Intel Integrated Graphics is part of the Northbridge, you can't cripple it a la GPUs. They may have left out a few features of the GPU in the driver but I haven't heard of this. Intel Integrated Graphics is and always has been limited. It's not designed for Gaming, it's designed to be adequate for running the OS which these days requires 3D processing because of Vista
.Intel updated their Windows driver to include a few new features not originally advertised to work wit the GMA950 (some vertex stuff iirc). Perhaps thats what you're thinking of?
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The move to a GMA3100 was basically dictated when Intel set the EOL date for the Socket M/945G platform about a year ago and the Mobile 965 chipset and it's new socket was announced. Intel purposely made a new socket so that OEMs couldn't continue asking for the 945/946 series chipsets which still sells well these days since it's the cheapest C2D chipset available and the newest revisions will even work with the 1333MHz FSB as Asus/ASROCK and Gigabyte have shown. This way they'll have more fab capacity for G/P31 chipsets.
Er, why would they? the only Macs that will need those drivers will ship with Leopard.