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how often does mac upgrade their graphics card?

maverick72 said:
Your SLI voodoo 2 won't run today's game. Not by a long shot. The 330m will.

Calling the 330m subpar GPU is at best uninformed. Nobody will argue that its a rocket or anywhere near high end but the 330m is a nice middle of the pack GPU in 2010. Period. Nothing more but also nothing less.

If somebody is buying a MBP for high end gaming they are clearly in the wrong brand.
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yea i know but i want a mac, just gaming is a nice bonus to have, so since i am in THIS brand, im looking for the better option for gaming lol
 
maverick72 said:
Your SLI voodoo 2 won't run today's game. Not by a long shot. The 330m will.

Calling the 330m subpar GPU is at best uninformed. Nobody will argue that its a rocket or anywhere near high end but the 330m is a nice middle of the pack GPU in 2010. Period. Nothing more but also nothing less.

If somebody is buying a MBP for high end gaming they are clearly in the wrong brand.
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You missed the point on the first part there, I know the old Voodoos likely wouldn't run anything recent, but a few years ago, they could run doom 3 or HL2 if you didn't "obsess about settings", but it would still be a brutal gameplay experience.

Also, I'm definitely not uninformed as to what the 330m is capable of. Calling it subpar is simply putting it in it's place. When looking at current dedicated GPUs in notebook computers, the 330m is on the lower end.
 
mikeo007 said:
When looking at current dedicated GPUs in notebook computers, the 330m is on the lower end.
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Lets do that shall we.... What do you call middle class GPU?

For me a middle class GPU is lets say ... ATI mob 5650 which looking at the benchmarks isn't THAT far ahead.

So question remains ... which *available* GPU you call middle class?
 
iamrawr said:
+1...
but they buy the stuff anyway...
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Yep, I'll admit that's what happened to me. I gotta say though, speed wise, this computer isn't much of a jump from my 3 year old macbook. Definitely wasn't wowed by it. But at least the better graphics card means it can play some mostly current games.

And I really do like the case of the Pro better than the macbook (especially the previous non-unibody Macbook, but really even the current macbook as well).
 
Until this last upgrade to the nVidia 320, a MBP from 2006 was capable of keeping up with the newest MBP's, graphically. So about every 3 years you'll get a substantial upgrade.
 
yea thats what i expected....so i guess it'll be like 3 years....i7 it is lol
 
maverick72 said:
Lets do that shall we.... What do you call middle class GPU?

For me a middle class GPU is lets say ... ATI mob 5650 which looking at the benchmarks isn't THAT far ahead.

So question remains ... which *available* GPU you call middle class?
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Yes, the 5650 would be a mid-range gpu. The 330m is roughly equivalent to the 4650, which WAS a mid-range gpu in the DirectX 10 days.

I would consider something similar to the 9600m GT out of the previous generation macbook pros to be low-end in today's notebooks. Placing the performance of the macbook's 330m between the ATI 5650 and the 9600m GT would place it as a mid-low range gpu, as I have been saying.

Also, let's not negate the fact that the 330m in the Macbook is underclocked, which decreases it's performance below what's shown on notebook check.
 
mikeo007 said:
Yes, the 5650 would be a mid-range gpu. The 330m is roughly equivalent to the 4650, which WAS a mid-range gpu in the DirectX 10 days.

I would consider something similar to the 9600m GT out of the previous generation macbook pros to be low-end in today's notebooks. Placing the performance of the macbook's 330m between the ATI 5650 and the 9600m GT would place it as a mid-low range gpu, as I have been saying.

Also, let's not negate the fact that the 330m in the Macbook is underclocked, which decreases it's performance below what's shown on notebook check.
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i dont get why its underclocked :s
 
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