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MacBook Pros with Thunderbolt, ATI/AMD Graphics?
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Be in the high end 13" for the optical drive, be in the high end 13" for the optical drive, be in the high end 13" for the optical drive, be in the high end 13" for the optical drive...
Apple forces me to buy a vaio with windows 7
I'm confused as to what you want.
No CPU were ever recalled only the chipset for which the sandy bridge CPUs use. Cougar point to be exact.
Btw nice link on the amd 6950 sounds too good to be true though.
If this proves to be true, it will be the prefect excuse for Apple not to present any re-design or significant change in the line. A much better GPU and minor spec bump is enough to justify this update.
BTW why is the store not down yet?
BTW why is the store not down yet?
Yes, I believe he did get the 13" info correct - but that was leaked yesterday/Wednesday morning. His post was Wednesday night.
Apparently Apple won't announce them until after Intel's press conference tomorrow announcing Light peak / Thunder bolt.
Doc Holliday died of tuberculosis using his MacBook Pro at the OK Corral shootout.
His shotgun was named ThunderBolt.
Damn. I got really excited. He's information would gain a lot of credibility (at least for me) if he claimed this before the low end specs were leaked.
From what I'm hearing on this thread, the AMDs aren't going to be big. That's why I want a quad core; anytime someone says they have a quad core laptop, I know they mean business. I want to mean business too!
General question for those who know about graphics cards. Will the AMD in the maxed out, as much as money can buy 17" be better than my current 9600m GT? I'm on core 2 duo 15" 3.06GHz.
Nooooooo!!!!! I need CUDA cores!
yup. this blows.
ATI has something similar, but...
Haha, I think he wants the option to remove the disk drive and stick one of these bad boys in.
BTW - I'm all for that too
The reason is simple IMHO.
It is because Apple can charge for the amount they do & yet their MBPs are selling like hotcakes! Didn't you see that they've been very successful with their Mac sales, breaking records after records, especially these past 1-2 years? Wow, AMD GPUs? I guess Apple really doesn't want me as a customer again
AMD makes great CPUs, especially when "bang for the buck" is taken into account. But they inherited ATI's TERRIBLE driver support. It's not as bad as Intel's driver support, but its not anywhere near as good as nvidia's.
AMD/the former ATi has had a hard time shaking this own fairy tail. A couple years ago ATi had basically had a horrible string of drivers surrounding certain cards that was basically a "blow drier". This was the last time I think ATi tried a "big die" strategy.
Today is however a COMPLETELY different story. One of the first things AMD did was get the driver team up to snuff. Crossfire in terms of scaling is actually now consistently better than SLI. In addition, as a 5870 owner, I have never had ANY issues what so ever with the drivers and see consistent performance increases every time new drivers come out. There are NO issues with AMD gpu drivers. Catalyst works absolutely beautifully these days. They are on par if not better than nVidia. Seriously.
Now as far was what GPU they might use. I think it would probably be the 6530m. About the same TDP as the current GT 330m.. it would roughly be about a 30% boost over the current generation too. Who knows, Apple could go for a slightly slower lower power option too.
The Intel GMA is only roughly on par with the 320m though... hmmm.
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Disagree. I think Thunderbolt is a Tramps favourite brand of cider.
AJ Predictions said:
Disagree. I think Thunderbolt is a Tramps favourite brand of cider.
Ah ok. I was worried that I was witnessing the first to be driven crazy by Apple rumors.
On a separate note, it's normal behavior to be up at 3 AM posting about products that may not even exist with a Cal test in the morning, right?
Absolutely. Not supporting CUDA will make me a sad panda.
You know, Apple has been trying to promote the alternative OpenCL for some time now. By using a non-CUDA GPU it achieves that in a very convincing way.
Don't they pretty much switch it every generation?
All I know is I'm a saaaad panda every time they go back to ATI and my Autodesk Inventor written specifically for Nvidia runs like poop on a stick.
So a 32GB drive will fill up in about 24secs, not 3 secs, if full throughput is achieved. Still frickin' fast!!!!