That's possible. Regarding the MBP 13-inch, I agree with you wholeheartedly. It is my favorite form-factor, and while I'm not a huge gamer, I do play sometimes - and I'd like to have the option to play something other than "Bejeweled" with reasonable frame rates and at least some eye-candy turned on. I'd gladly sacrifice the internal optical drive for a GPU manufactured by a company that knows and cares about graphics performance - even in their low-end offerings.
The optical drive, believe it or not, is actually still useful for things, even on a laptop. Apple's optical drives suck as they always break, but still. There are some creative professionals that still need to burn demo reels on DVDs and whatnot. However, they could put the MacBook Air style SSD blades in and completely kill the 2.5" Hard Drive bay in the 13" giving them room for the discrete GPU (and maybe some left over for the battery). It's not like SSD isn't a more preferable substitute to a Hard Drive anyway. That's the only way I can see the 13" MacBook Pro surviving without being seen by both the press and the majority of its target market audience as ridiculous.
1. Get rid of the Superdrive.
2. Put epic ATI card in its place.
3. ?????
4. Profit
Get rid of the hard drive instead of the superdrive; you can use the blade SSDs in their place, and those who still need the superdrive on their 13" MacBook PRO(!) won't be screwed, that should still easily afford enough MLB room for a GPU on that machine as the MLB of the 15" is not that much larger.
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