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13-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Said to Carry 'Unprecedented' Battery Design, Same Port Layout as 15-Inch Model
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Personally, I'd go for the discrete graphics. It would seriously aid the performance of many intense apps, especially games, and relieve the CPU.
Easily without a sweat.. Unless you're animator at Pixar, you'll be fine
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Hey there's actually been a lot of Mac news this week! What is this? Some kind of "Mac" rumors site? 
Maybe you meant the same thing, but they moved to Li-Po years ago in the laptops.
I would think we would have heard about truly new tech by now. So I say it's just more marketing-speak.
Don't visit a rumors forum.
That is probably one of the stupidest comments I have ever read. On a rumors forums complaining that you don't want to know rumors about an upcoming product. Come on!
These are not "rumors" but rather leaks. This site is not called MacLeaks now is it?
I think a number of people have a problem with these persistent leaks with actual photos of parts. That is a serious problem and if the manufacturer was located in the US, somebody would be investigated for insider trading or misappropriation. Because the manufacturer is located in China, the SEC cannot prosecute or investigate the leakers. If, however, someone at Apple were to leak insider information about future products, they could be charged under SEC regulations and fined or imprisoned.
I don't think nobody wants to see people go to jail.
I miss this site when we had unsubstantiated rumors and speculation with very few actual leaked parts to go on. All of these leaks take some of the fun out of the keynotes.
Well since the 15" rMBPs integrated graphics is having trouble driving it's screens resolution then this will probably have the same problem, so you definitely don't need to be a Pixar animator to need that.
Discrete graphics, no question.
Except it's not, because Tim Cook was COO before CEO. He dealt with suppliers.
As Apple continues to rise in popularity, there will be more leaks because there will be more of a demand for them (as well as opportunity, as the amount of suppliers/production ramp-ups will grow). it doesn't have to do with a failing on Cook's part.
It's no different than driving the 27" Thunderbolt display, as the resolution of 2560x1600 is the max the hardware scalar can do before you have to involve slower software algorithms to deal with anything higher.
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People also forget that Tim Cook has been effectively running the company since the beginning of 2011 when Steve Jobs was scaling back some of his duties. It's not as if Tim Cook's influence on the company suddenly started on August 24th when he became CEO or October 5th when Steve passed away.
The integrated graphics in the current rMBP definitely struggles to drive all those pixels at times. I know I'm not the only one to notice it. Several podcasters on 5by5.tv have said the same. So if integrated is your only option with this, good luck.
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It's not the GPU that's the problem. 2560x1600 is the same resolution that's on the 30" ACD, something a 2008 MacBook Unibody could power with a 9400m Integrated Graphics processor.
The problems with the Retina display are mostly likely due to rendering path optimizations which are lacking in the HiDPI scalers Apple uses.
The integrated graphics in the current rMBP definitely struggles to drive all those pixels at times. I know I'm not the only one to notice it. Several podcasters on 5by5.tv have said the same. So if integrated is your only option with this, good luck.
Thing is the current rMBP is a lot higher resolution than the 13" is likely to be. The integrated graphics seems to have no problem with 28" TB display which is the same resolution that is being talked about for rMBP 13".
The 27in is 2560x1440 as it is 16:9 not 16:10 like the old 30in, but I get your point.
The integrated graphics in the current rMBP definitely struggles to drive all those pixels at times. I know I'm not the only one to notice it. Several podcasters on 5by5.tv have said the same. So if integrated is your only option with this, good luck.
The GPU does not struggle. Really folks, we've been pushing higher pixel numbers for years through sheer multi-pass rendering of lower resolutions. It's something else in the graphics stack.
Enough laptops!
Same here!
I'm tired of portability.
Let's have somthing really powerful.
Same here!
I'm tired of portability.
Let's have somthing really powerful.
No to mention the 9400m could power a 30" ACD running 2560x1600. And a HD 4000 is quite a bit better than the now 4 year old nVidia IGP we had in 2008.
I know exactly what the previous poster felt like, and the difference between rumors and leaks. There used to always be room for surprises - and plenty of actual hardware surprises at Apple product unveilings. MacRumors made us suspect the class of product being unveiled, but all the details blew us away during the unveiling. Now, by the time of unveiling, we've already seen a full tear down of the hardware. First time I remember this total lack of surprise was the iPhone4 Retina display being leaked.
Sure, we could not read MacRumors, but they now even repost the leaks in all the major news outlets. The only "surprise" typically left is that, no, the device you already know about isn't going to released until next year. Sorry.
Tim has already doubled down on security. What else can he possibly do?
Keep in mind that Apple suffers no leaks, but instead, supplies selected media outlets with planted stories. Apple has always been the most secretive company in the world, and now they are TWICE as secretive.
The only plausible explanation is that Apple cleverly obtains free advertising and publicity by planting stories with the media.
Why? Apple has been taking more and more control over the design of their chips. Look at the A6, it has incredible graphics processing capabilities. Would it be a stretch to think that they can't build really powerful integrated graphics into their laptops now? Eventually, we'll see Apple-designed processors powering our laptops and the rest of the computer industry won't be able to match the capabilities of a Mac :dreaming:.