I'm pretty sure it was a typo on 9to5's part as it's pretty much been confirmed that all 15s will have Quads.
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15/17-Inch MacBook Pro Specs: AMD GPU, Quad Core i7
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I'm pretty sure it was a typo on 9to5's part as it's pretty much been confirmed that all 15s will have Quads.
what ****ed up person would build a 5200 rpm disk in such a piece of hardware... oh yes apple that is
it's a laptop - battery life and heat are much more critical.. get an ssd if you want speed or buy a 7200 aftermarket..
Agreed.
That's a long time to keep the entire Apple ecommerce operation offline.
They do sell other things.
Okay, I'm posting a comparison of the 3 GPU's:
330M :
48 Unified Cores (or SPU's) @ 575 Mhz
1265 Mhz Shader clock
128 bit bus w/ GDDR3
Radeon 6490 (to appear in 15" model):
160 Unified Cores (or SPU's) @ 700-800 Mhz
700-800 Mhz Shader Clock (this is per core, so relax)
64-bit bus w/ GDDR5
Hmm... damn. those graphics are just about the same
Now, the Radeon 6750 (supposedly in the 17" Model - may appear in High end 15")
480 Unified Cores (or SPU's) @ 600Mhz!!! (again, per core, relax)
600 Mhz Shader clock... meh... (per core, relax)
128 bit bus w/GDDR 5
Seems like the new GPU's - especially the 6750 are a pretty big improvement And I'm sure that real-life performance will be much better
330M :
48 Unified Cores (or SPU's) @ 575 Mhz
1265 Mhz Shader clock
128 bit bus w/ GDDR3
Radeon 6490 (to appear in 15" model):
160 Unified Cores (or SPU's) @ 700-800 Mhz
700-800 Mhz Shader Clock (this is per core, so relax)
64-bit bus w/ GDDR5
Hmm... damn. those graphics are just about the same
Now, the Radeon 6750 (supposedly in the 17" Model - may appear in High end 15")
480 Unified Cores (or SPU's) @ 600Mhz!!!
(again, per core, relax)600 Mhz Shader clock... meh... (per core, relax)
128 bit bus w/GDDR 5
Seems like the new GPU's - especially the 6750 are a pretty big improvement
And I'm sure that real-life performance will be much better 
Just did that - didn't look at the res the moment I was posting it
nothing wrong with the original......
Apple is a much bigger player in my opinion. I could see something like this:
"As you may have seen earlier today, the earliest adopter of LightPeak (Thunderbolt) technology is Apple as they have updated their MBP lines with the technology earlier this morning."
Oops, sorry! My bad. This thread is moving way too fast to fully keep up.
I'm going to wait til Monday, partly because I want to hear the feedback on the new models (the last time I took an active interest in graphics cards they ran over AGP), and partly because I'm broke til then.
The current rumours sound great. Does anyone know whether Apple typically offers options on its GPU? And at what sort of price?
yeah i doubt they will talk about mbps in depth, just a little. the majority will be regarding LP/TBolt
Oops, sorry! My bad. This thread is moving way too fast to fully keep up.
I'm going to wait til Monday, partly because I want to hear the feedback on the new models (the last time I took an active interest in graphics cards they ran over AGP), and partly because I'm broke til then.
The current rumours sound great. Does anyone know whether Apple typically offers options on its GPU? And at what sort of price?
No worries, I don't recall a time that GPU's were BTO options in MBP's, but my memory isn't what it used to be. Also, I figure if I pick it up at Best Buy then I can take advantage of their return policy if any serious news crops up by monday...or I can be a guinea pig for later adopters like yourself
If that's they case then they will both probably use the i7-2720QM
As far as I know that is the only 2.2GHz quad-core Sandy Bridge mobile processor (6MB cache, 3.3GHz max turbo)
The rumour seems to indicate it's on the 15 inch - which shouldn't be entry level, unless the pricing's undergone an overhaul.
Makes sense, but that is not until 10am PT (1pm ET). Five more hours!!!
By the time 1pm ET rolls around, we'll lose most of our members who will collapse from lack of sleep since they stayed up dreaming about every possible MBP possible configuration, while others will be running around their neighborhoods naked high on Mountain Dew. Neither will be a pretty sight.
