that $300 is for the last gen mbp i have not seen 1X4 gb ddr3 anywhere which is probably why apple states 4gb is max.
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MacBook Pro's NVIDIA Chipsets Can Support Dual GPU and 8GB RAM
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that $300 is for the last gen mbp i have not seen 1X4 gb ddr3 anywhere which is probably why apple states 4gb is max.
Good to see the RAM ceiling put up to 8GB for those who can afford/need it. Personally, I would be delighted with just 4GB 
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The new MBP might turn into quite the speed demon. No wonder the previous gen models are at firesale prices.
.The new MBP might turn into quite the speed demon. No wonder the previous gen models are at firesale prices.
I think this is the consumer Apple wants to cater to.
It's surprising since Apple did have the SSD drive in the MacBook Air available from the get go.Curious why this feature wasn't ready to go on launch day
Oh man, that's a powerful machine if Apple enables all that stuff. Give us quad core and that thing will be a beast.
Curious why this feature wasn't ready to go on launch day
I could not agree MORE...
If Apple wanted to really impress the pros they should have had the features already in place. As well, since a lot of users are reporting problems, it seems that maybe Apple released these products too early...
I was gonna buy a new MacBook at the end of December but now I will see what Apple does for the MacBook Pro...
Maybe they are waiting to release the 17" to enable those features... but again, why wait?
Prices for DDR2 are pretty cheap: $70 for 2 x 2GB modules. You are right in that 4GB DDR3 chips aren't around yet, but given that 2 x 2GB DDR3 is $150, I'd imagine the 4GB chips would be at least that. My guess is that 8GB (2 x 4GB OEM) will cost ~$400 out of the gate, perhaps less. Still, not *that* bad considering that it's new tech and a ton of RAM.
I hate to be cynical, but I suspect Apple is doing its usual slow roll-out of features, holding back to reserve a feature as bait later on (bait to get people to shell out more money somehow). The "activation" of these benefits will end up costing money.
Well, thanks to Eidorian we now know that 4GB chips do exist! And at quite a premium!
I suppose I'll get out of the memory price speculation business, now...4GB (2 x 2GB)DDR3 = $150
8GB (2 x 4GB)DDR3 = $1180
They better give you free shipping with that....
it is actually cheaper than i thought i figured $1600 for the 8 gb so 1200 is not bad. i would wait tell the prices drop a lot.
haha true
but I'll never again buy a windows laptop. I learned the hard way... now it's 
all the way
I don't want another 802.11n game again.
It was ~$700 per stick just a few weeks ago.
Consumers will not need more then 4 GB of RAM.
Personally, I think 640k ought to be enough for anyone.
I'ts probably irrelevant to most here
But technically speaking, Products like Fusion and Parallels might be able to use one of the graphics chips and run a virtual window native without any emulation (except for sound; I'f im correct)
Might be kind of nice to really have this virtual thing work this way (considering I paid real money for it)
But technically speaking, Products like Fusion and Parallels might be able to use one of the graphics chips and run a virtual window native without any emulation (except for sound; I'f im correct)
Might be kind of nice to really have this virtual thing work this way (considering I paid real money for it)
The virtual GPU is still a virtual GPU. They're getting better at using hardware acceleration but the virtual OS still isn't completely, directly interacting with the real GPU.I'ts probably irrelevant to most here
But technically speaking, Products like Fusion and Parallels might be able to use one of the graphics chips and run a virtual window native without any emulation (except for sound; I'f im correct)
Might be kind of nice to really have this virtual thing work this way (considering I paid real money for it)
Why is this article about the MacBook Pro alone, when the MacBook also uses that very same chipset?
The MacBook should support 8 GB alongside the MacBook Pro. Since it's only using the 9400M G it doesn't support Dual GPU grahpics boost.
When we say Apple will ultimately allow us to use both at once, I think that is more likely to take the form of one GPU acting normally and another as a OpenCL device.
I don't expect they would enable the two GPUs to act as one in an SLI type arrangement. That would seem like a massive driver effort.
The fast switching will surely be coming, maybe even before 10.6
I don't expect they would enable the two GPUs to act as one in an SLI type arrangement. That would seem like a massive driver effort.
The fast switching will surely be coming, maybe even before 10.6
I would actually prefer this arrangement, as I would be doing much more video encoding than gaming (in fact, I wouldn't be gaming at all). Have one GPU drive the display and help out OpenCL when needed, have the other crunch numbers.
I wonder what running 2 GPUs will do to the energy consumption though, especially for a laptop.
Actually, I think heat is more of an issue. Per the images posted up by iFixit, the three chips (CPU and both graphics chips) are in somewhat close proximity of each other.
DDR3 SODIMMs are 204-pin.
More then that! They share the same heatpipe and exhaust system. Keep in mind the chipset is going to heat up as well under high CPU load anyways.
I was talking about the chipset, not the GPU. So of course the GPU-related stuff is for MBP-only, but I was referring to support of 8GB of RAM.
Actually, I think heat is more of an issue. Per the images posted up by iFixit, the three chips (CPU and both graphics chips) are in somewhat close proximity of each other.
Good call, I didn't even think of that! I wonder if the heat issues will mean relegating the dual GPU feature to desktops, then?
Once again it's the same situation on the iMac as well.
http://www.kodawarisan.com/imac_2007_mid/imac_2007_mid_02.html
You should see what a PC desktop can do with four slots of DDR2-800. There are quite a few consumer towers that ship with quad cores and 6-8 GB of RAM.