You can't put cards like that in a laptop unless the laptop is very thick and heavy, which Apple will not do, and Apple has a contract with AMD for GPUs this year anyway, so there's no reason at all to "expect" that.
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--Eric
nvidia offers the same chips just clocked a bit lower for laptops:
http://www.ultrabookreview.com/10939-laptops-nvidia-1070-1080/
GTX 1070 laptop has 100W TDP, and GTX 1080 has 125W TDP.
MBPro PSU has 85W. For whole machine.
Yes, and did you happen to check the size and weight (and price!) of those computers? Not to mention the battery life they usually have.
--Eric
Oh, so they are some heavy beasts. Yikes, didn't catch that. You guys are tuned into those details.
I'm so wrapped up in waiting for an iMac I didn't think about that. Oh well. It will fit in an iMac right? Not that I'll get an nvidia option out of apple, though.
Do AMD's parts this gen draw significantly less power than nVidia? I can see why Apple would be interested in that for a thinner and thinner body on everything. It's disappointing for sure, but I'm holding off hope for official external TB3 support. Throw a monster 1080 in an external case and only use it when necessary, and keep all of that heat out of an iMac.
Nvidia may just be getting back into Macs, per this article
http://appleinsider.com/articles/16...n-graphics-for-revolutionary-new-mac-products
Apple doesn't spend their own time on ideas, they just steals others people's ideas and markets it as their own.
But yes i hope they find a solution.