New MacBooks from Foxconn?

[gregorsamsa]

It's not going to happen. It would steal sales away from the MacBook Pro, and the cost would be minimal between the two.

IMO, it's by no means out of the question. After all, even the current 13.3" MacBooks will yet go through a number of significant upgrades in future. At some point, it's likely they'll have dedicated graphics. They just won't be on a par with the MBP's graphics (& other extras!).

So it's quite feasible, & it needn't affect MBP sales. Overall, it could also significantly increase the number of switchers from PCs!

 

[macphoria]

It's not going to happen. It would steal sales away from the MacBook Pro, and the cost would be minimal between the two.

I agree. As much as I would like to see a MacBook with dedicated graphics card, that's not going to happen.

As far as I can understand, integrated graphics card provides decent graphics performance at a lower cost. Ideal solution for consumer level laptop like MacBook.

Also, I remember reading somewhere that AMD may be working with ATI to create one solution chip, that combines CPU and GPU (please correct me if I'm mistaken) in order to make efficient and cost-effective chip. If that's the case, Intel is probably working on something similar. I wonder if these integrated graphics card is transitional process to CPU/GPU combination chip?

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Following on from this story, apparently FoxConn will be supplying Apple with 15.4" MacBooks/MacBook Pros in May 2007.

Source: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20061026PR206.html

Does this mean I'll want to get my macbook/MBP before May 07, or won't it matter