Good idea to have integrated graphics in 15" MBP?!

[Bearxor]

I think it was a good move, but I wish they wouldn't have announced a 15" MBP "price drop". It wasn't really a price drop, it was a stripping down to make it cheaper.

IMO, they should have kept the macbook name and put the entry-level 15" under that and released a 13" with a 9600m and called it a pro.

One thing that I see a lot of people doing is dissing the 9400GT because it's an "integrated" card. There's a huge difference between the 9400GT and the crap video processors Intel includes in their chipsets. The 9400 chipset contains a REAL 9400m graphics chip. It's actually quite powerful and is more than even some "professionals" need.

 

[iMacmatician]

I think if Apple had paired the MBP with a vastly inferior chip like Intel graphics, we would have some issues. But the 9400m is capable and Apple is committed to supporting it well in Snow Leopard.

They may go back to Intel IGPs with Arrandale.

Apple still sells a MBP with dedicated graphics - all they've done is add an option for those that don't need them. How is this a bad thing, exactly?

And they didn't raise the price or decreased the # of models with discrete GPUs.