Apple Seriously Considered Switching to AMD in 2011 MacBook Air

[chris200x9]

Even though I disagree with your reasons, I respected your opinions until the last sentence. This is obvious from some one that does not like Apple - because of comment of ripping DVD's

As for the other parts

maya rendering, don't use maya - but do use Lightwave and Vue and for these platforms Intel is clearly the professional choice here. I actually purchase a dual xeon for this purpose. NVidia GPU are graphics choice

Photoshop - I been using Photoshop since 3.0 and Intel has alway been top
- Photoshop actually does not use much of GPU - later versions have additional which actually came from Newtek - makers of Lightwave.

bitcoin - never used it - I know that the benchmarks are heavily bias toward AMD.

Gaming - personaly I always uses Intel and NVidia and a lot of games have that on them also - so I believe others.

DVD ripping - well we know that is cpu.

In general for me the perfect combination is Intel CPU with NVidia GPU.

My last sentance wasn't a shot at apple, it was just meant to show how a circumstance where intel would trounce AMD is not even applicable. I value your input do you think at minimum 30-ish percent gpu bump would be benificial at the cost of a 25-ish percent CPU drop? Also I'm in awe of how this is even an issue, in my mind it's a no brainer even if you say no to it being worth it because this is a MBA not a professional photo editing machine.

 

[Eidorian]

HardMac did not really add much on this older news but AMD is making rounds again with Trinity.

Sources:

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32141

http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=32642

I am not really sure what AMD's objective is if they are binning out ULV Trinity's for less than Intel's ULV segment. The only penalty you pay right now for ULV is in base clock speed. The Turbos are crazy on the Intel side.

But who was profit AMD? Maybe it is all in those GCN video cards.