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Intel Shares Details on New 'Iris' Integrated Graphics for Haswell Chips
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They are hitting the limits of their current, fast paced Tick/Tock cycling and will probably return to 2-3 year cycles on the desktop side. It is a mature market and they are going to concentrate, along with AMD, on mobile devices.
I've amended things further in the thread. It's supposed to be the iMac and MBP with discrete GPU. The 13" obviously does not have a discrete GPU. Also, it does appear that the mini will get the 5100 at some point in time. So yes, a 20-50% improvement, not the 3X as some had hoped for in the new MINI.
It's probably just not worth it: it would seem reasonable to me that the highest-end integrated graphics won't be all that cheap, and so in a desktop where space and power usage aren't such a concern, you'd be better off including some mid-range discrete GPU, in terms of cost/performance ratios.
I don't think Apple would go from a 35W CPU to a 28W CPU in the 13" MBP. Such a chip would likely be slower than the Ivy Bridge chips currently offered. So I suspect Apple will either try and force a quad in there, or do some other Intel collaboration trickery.
A lot of towers use IGPs in default configurations. They aren't on Xeon E/EP yet, so I don't see that happening on the mac pro end. If they were available, I would be surprised if IGP only wasn't an option.
It varies based on the application. If the video editing application doesn't leverage gpu frameworks for performance, there's no benefit. Typically video and graphics apps do require stable drivers, but if they don't use something specific like OpenGL or CUDA based rendering, there is little or no gain. The HD 3000 and 4000 are actually supported by a lot of apps where GMA graphics were never tested.
There are quad options available with the mini. It's just the lowest model that uses a dual core cpu at this point.
Interesting. So if the 13” MBP can't have the vanilla Iris, can't wait to see what this 'Intel collaboration trickery' will be. Hopefully we get a special 35W GT3e exclusive for Apple.
Well they may have broken it with Windows 8. LOL. Windows 7 is good enough and Windows 8 is not offering a significant advantage until more touch screen laptops or Windows tablets are sold.
But you must admit you've owned more than one computer in your lifetime. I've owned dozens including PDAs, Smartphones and Tablets.