I'd say at least till Lion ships. They'll either have it installed already or the USB stick that ships with them will have it on.
So we know that Lion will be coming soon at least. WWDC I'd guess.
I thought Lion wasn't due until Sept/Oct 2011?
I'd say at least till Lion ships. They'll either have it installed already or the USB stick that ships with them will have it on.
So we know that Lion will be coming soon at least. WWDC I'd guess.
Seoras said:Saw this post on slashdot yesterday and immediately thought "MB Air refresh".
"NVIDIA Announces New GeForce GTX 560M and GT 520MX Mobile GPUs"
http://hothardware.com/News/NVIDIA-Announced-New-GeForce-GTX-560M-and-GT-520MX-Mobile-GPUs/
No comments on this?
Apple has stuck with the ancient Intel Core2Duo processor in it's Air range partly due to the legal fight between Nvidia and Intel which has now been resolved.
Apple's logic appears to have been that the GPU was of greater importance than the CPU. I tend to agree given how much is off loaded onto GPU's now (Video CODEC especially).
There was a recent post on Intel Sandy Bridge Core i5/i7 here on Macrumors.
https://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/2...ghz-processors-suitable-for-next-macbook-air/
I can't see Apple releasing another Core2Duo MB Air.
I'm wondering if the new MB Air will offer both Intel and Nvidia's latest offerings?
Anyone familiar with this care to hazard a guess at a release? If supplies are 'constrained' today does that mean we'll be seeing new MBAs today (it is a Tuesday) or is it likely still several weeks away?
johneaston said:Optimus Frag said:I'd say at least till Lion ships. They'll either have it installed already or the USB stick that ships with them will have it on.
So we know that Lion will be coming soon at least. WWDC I'd guess.
I thought Lion wasn't due until Sept/Oct 2011?
I'm wondering if the new MB Air will offer both Intel and Nvidia's latest offerings?
Saw this post on slashdot yesterday and immediately thought "MB Air refresh".
"NVIDIA Announces New GeForce GTX 560M and GT 520MX Mobile GPUs"
http://hothardware.com/News/NVIDIA-Announced-New-GeForce-GTX-560M-and-GT-520MX-Mobile-GPUs/
No comments on this?
Apple has stuck with the ancient Intel Core2Duo processor in it's Air range partly due to the legal fight between Nvidia and Intel which has now been resolved.
Apple's logic appears to have been that the GPU was of greater importance than the CPU. I tend to agree given how much is off loaded onto GPU's now (Video CODEC especially).
There was a recent post on Intel Sandy Bridge Core i5/i7 here on Macrumors.
https://www.macrumors.com/2011/05/2...ghz-processors-suitable-for-next-macbook-air/
I can't see Apple releasing another Core2Duo MB Air.
I'm wondering if the new MB Air will offer both Intel and Nvidia's latest offerings?
With the HD 3000 built into the Sandybridge CPU's offering lower (if not quite abysmal) performance compared to the nVidia chips
Back lit keyboard pretty please! That was the biggest and dumbest mistake Apple ever made recently, to leave it out. Going backwards.
If I read one more message about people demanding a backlit keyboard on the new Macbook Air, I'm gonna kill myself!
It's really not that important to anyone who knows how to type!
Learn to type people!!!! The amount of time you will save will be far greater than any gains a backlit keyboard will get you.
It's obvious they dropped the backlit keyboard because of a design reason, not out of spite for users who like it. That design choice paid off and the MBA went from niche to mainstream with the last refresh.
Did you really just attribute the success of the Macbook Air to the fact they removed the backlight??
Did you really just attribute the success of the Macbook Air to the fact they removed the backlight??
That more than anything else prevented people from buying it.
Awesome....
My wife's getting my 11" MBA and I'm getting a maxed out top of the line 13" MBA when they come out, the addition of the Thunderbolt is very welcome indeed as doing backups via USB2 is so slow....
Nope, I didn't. Read my post again.
If I read one more message about people demanding a backlit keyboard on the new Macbook Air, I'm gonna kill myself!
It's really not that important to anyone who knows how to type!
Learn to type people!!!! The amount of time you will save will be far greater than any gains a backlit keyboard will get you.
Impossible. Those are dedicated mobile GPUs. The Air has always had an IGP (Integrated Graphics Processor). nVidia cannot make IGPs for the new Core iX line of processors anymore, so you will not see an nVidia GPU in the next Air.
The nVidia announcement doesn't change anything at all. That's why there was no comment on it nor did anyone bring it up.
Fixed that there for you. The HD 3000 never performed on par with the 320m. The benchmarks AnandTech did that showed any similar performance were for CPU bound tasks which were a result of the Sandy Bridge CPU being much faster than the Core 2 Duo CPU paired with the 320m.
All benchmarks for pure graphics (3D marks and others) show the true story. The HD 3000 is about half the performance of the 320m and twice the performance of the 9400m. It's a downgrade for us current Air owners that value the GPU more than the CPU.
Ivy Bridge won't fix this either. They'll still be slower than comparable offerings from AMD and nVidia, except by then, we won't have had a modern IGP paired with an Intel CPU in quite a while, so comparisons will be impossible. We'll be back in the dark ages where all laptops sucked for gaming again (the early days pre-nVidia doing mobile IGPs).
Nope, I didn't. Read my post again.
Better yet, let me again repeat myself : I attributed the current MBA's success to its current design. I said the lack of backlit keyboard was for sure a design compromise Apple had to make, but in light of the success of this design, the compromise was a wise choice on their part.
Apple didn't remove the backlit keyboard to spite anyone. They didn't do it to "bring it back later to force upgrades either". There probably came a time in the design process where it was either scrap it or lose the design. Seeing how successful this design was, it seems to me the guy who decided to scrap the backlights made the right choice in the end, even if a few users missed the feature.
They still sold more than they ever did and it was the best selling Mac for that quarter. So in a sense, maybe preventing a few people from buying it resulted in more people buying it thanks to the new design.