Good for you. But still, all Macs today come standard with an nVidia GPU, and some only have nVidia options.
For SL at it is.
That ATi is an AMD brand and a competitor to Intel.
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Apple Dropping NVIDIA for Future Macs?
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Good for you. But still, all Macs today come standard with an nVidia GPU, and some only have nVidia options.
For SL at it is.
Here is my take on all this:
I am using my MBP professionally on daily bases.
It died on me 14 months after I bought it.
Cause of death - fried 8600M!
Resurrection process - replacement of entire mobo!
LUCKILY I am based in Berlin so entire repair process took less than a week and of course it has been carried out free of charge.
But...
1. I lost 1 week worth of work (would be much more than that if I was less lucky)
2. Apple lost fair bit of money
3. Apple reputation got damaged due to the fact that my case was only one in 10s of thousands (perhaps even more)
4. Researches are pointing out that 9600M chip in latest MBP is apparently suffering from exactly the same problem...
I say drop NVidia now and move back to AMD asap...
I am using my MBP professionally on daily bases.
It died on me 14 months after I bought it.
Cause of death - fried 8600M!
Resurrection process - replacement of entire mobo!
LUCKILY I am based in Berlin so entire repair process took less than a week and of course it has been carried out free of charge.
But...
1. I lost 1 week worth of work (would be much more than that if I was less lucky)
2. Apple lost fair bit of money
3. Apple reputation got damaged due to the fact that my case was only one in 10s of thousands (perhaps even more)
4. Researches are pointing out that 9600M chip in latest MBP is apparently suffering from exactly the same problem...
I say drop NVidia now and move back to AMD asap...
If that were true, It's either nVidia or no Apple products for me until they get nVidia back. Intel video cards suck! Total fail!
I understand about the Chipset Chips. But if there are No Nvidia Graphics and I'm Not buying another Apple Laptop.
Why so many of you think if Apple drops NVidia they will move to Intel!?!?!
If this rumour is indeed true and if Apple is to replace their GPU maker with someone else it simply can not be anyone else but AMD...
Intel will be there to provide mobo chipset + cpu but not GPU like so many of you think...
I'm kind of a newbie here (as you can see
), so my ? is: does the 9400M in my "limited" edition macbook unibody is affected?
), so my ? is: does the 9400M in my "limited" edition macbook unibody is affected? 
I'm kind of a newbie here (as you can see
They're not going to come to your house and remove your chip. This is for future Macs.
Here's what i think AMD + ATI = Happiness, then Intel + nVidia = happiness, ive always liked nvidia better because there video cards dont get outta date as fast as the ati's, so in my opinion i think apple should stick with nVidia as long as there running intel processors.
Are you saying the ATI extensions aren't developed yet? Or just that it won't work on ATIs mobile solutions?
Of course it won't work with ATi mobile anything.
I just think the extensions aren't there yet.
you all know the part about intel and nvidia licensing may lend credibility to the rumor that nvidia is developing a x64 processor to compete with nehelem. Arstechnica ran a story on that a while back.
i don't understand the link between a small past notebook platform fault, and why apple would drop when the current platform (9400 and 9600) is phenomenal! I love my unibody 15" macbook pro (late 2008), and it is selling like crazy for Apple. Dropping nvidia's quality would be dumb.
i don't understand the link between a small past notebook platform fault, and why apple would drop when the current platform (9400 and 9600) is phenomenal! I love my unibody 15" macbook pro (late 2008), and it is selling like crazy for Apple. Dropping nvidia's quality would be dumb.
If Apple was moving all their iMacs and Macbook Pros away from nVidia one would think ATI/Intel extensions would be working by now wouldn't one ?
This is stupid. Some site that by it's own name is guessing something for click throughs and MR falls for it.
Any Intel processor with DMI and an onboard PCI-Express controller is going to ruin nVidia's day on the mobile IGP side.
ION 2 we hardly knew ye. Well unless Apple plans on shipping Core 2 hardware forever.
ION 2 we hardly knew ye. Well unless Apple plans on shipping Core 2 hardware forever.
If Apple was moving all their iMacs and Macbook Pros away from nVidia one would think ATI/Intel extensions would be working by now wouldn't one ?
This is stupid. Some site that by it's own name is guessing something for click throughs and MR falls for it.
I agree.
It is obvious that Apple won't move to ATi any time soon.
I don't know. What ever comes next.
Apple just moved to nVidia, so I really, really doubt they will move to ATi so soon.
No one knows and any Nehalem DMI based derivative kills IGPs outside of what Intel provides.
Sorry! I didn't explain myself very well... What I meant was if it was affected by the frying problems/faulty units the 8600 had.
No...
But apparently 9600M is
All of you who bought MBP recently will know in about 10 months time...
My experience with 8600M was like that - it worked perfectly for about 14 months and one day screen simple went black...
Hence infamous "black screen of death"...
Google it and you will understand better why this rumour might indeed be true
Larrabee as a GPU or as CPU?
Add LLVM into the mix and Apple could build a two chip mobo with nVidia Chipset(maybe with an ARM core to handle system level stuff) and integrated Graphics with a Larrabee Hanging off it as another GPU but the OS treats it as the CPU. The top end MPB's would get a dedicated CPU on top.
Even if it isn't the plan to release I'm sure Apple have this as a prototype to keep all parties keen.
The mobile 4800 series looks to have similar features to the desktop ones.