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New MacBook Pro to probably be thinner..
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On an unrelated note to my other post, the Nvidia chipset rumor being "confirmed" is extremely interesting. What does this mean for Apple's relationship with Intel? If they've stopped using a huge part of the Intel platform, all of a sudden it doesn't seem so ridiculous to have a few AMD options. While there have been no rumors as such, and I wouldn't expect them Tuesday, or next year, this is an interesting development.
While Intel does a better job with I/O functions, the single chip nature of the Nvidia chipsets are a model that Intel would be smart to follow.
What's more interesting is the size of the board. "Smaller" is a pretty ambiguous statement. How much smaller? Significantly so, or just screeching by Intel's?
Heat is another question. I'm embarassed to say that I don't know how hot my chipset runs off hand, and I'm not familiar with the usual heat of the intel equivalent. While I am thinking about desktop boards, the same principles are true across product lines often enough. Perhaps the next MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and MacBook Airs, will run at a cooler temperature with a cooler chipset. Given this speculation, they could also use a cooler chipset to shoehorn in a hotter graphics card.
Baseless speculation is fun.
While Intel does a better job with I/O functions, the single chip nature of the Nvidia chipsets are a model that Intel would be smart to follow.
What's more interesting is the size of the board. "Smaller" is a pretty ambiguous statement. How much smaller? Significantly so, or just screeching by Intel's?
Heat is another question. I'm embarassed to say that I don't know how hot my chipset runs off hand, and I'm not familiar with the usual heat of the intel equivalent. While I am thinking about desktop boards, the same principles are true across product lines often enough. Perhaps the next MacBooks, MacBook Pros, and MacBook Airs, will run at a cooler temperature with a cooler chipset. Given this speculation, they could also use a cooler chipset to shoehorn in a hotter graphics card.
Baseless speculation is fun.
Current technology ≠ Powerful technology. GMA X4500 is current technology.
It is a backwards step in that a same-thickness MacBook Pro (as well as PC notebooks) would take an even bigger step forwards.
Just think with a thicker case how much more they could do, given what you've said. 2x CPU and GPU performance anyone (for much less than 2x the thickness)?
That would be sad! I won't be getting one if that's the case. There is already a 512MB 8600 in this one so there's no point getting the same thing again.
Amen.
They've had forever. I'm sure they'll wow us into whipping our credit cards out before the keynote is even over!
As long as it's fatter, I don't care how it looks. But it needs to be fatter to perform.
im guessing the screen bezel will be a lot thinner than the current but the lower casing holding most of the electronics and giving off the most heat will only be a little thinner maybe less than .1". so im guessing it will be around 0.8" but the lower casing will still be around the same thickness.