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NVIDIA Powered MacBooks on October 14th?
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Nope, I brought my MBP for reapir this week because of a faulty GPU. I'm still waiting for my new motherboard..
But the last MBP doesn't seem to suffer from this, so I guess it's only with the first gen MBP SR.
<typing at six year old Fujitsu Siemens Intel Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz, 512 MB
>O, I'll be buying this new new beauty for sure!
Hmm, i just don't understand why there have been no more pictures leaked if these laptops are actually that close to release... I'm dying for more tidbits.
Seriously!!! I want pictures, 9 days is too long. Leak something!
Macbook Air 1.36Kg
EEE PC 901 1.14Kg
That's not to say there is no place for the Air but that smaller, and much cheaper, laptops are out there. Apple's had advice recently about targetting this segment of the market.
The whole of the market for laptops over thenext few years might not see it like that.
I'm not rubbishing the Macbook Air....I wouldn't buy one myself due to it being too limited though. The EEE doesn't offer much less (it even has good build quality), however OSX will always swing it for me.
So... What's the benefit to having Nvidia chipsets versus the Intel ones other than the integrated graphics?
How will this affect future Macbook Pros? Intel has their FSB clocked at 1066MT/s on Montevina... Will Nvidia have it clocked similarly or higher?
Also, Nvidia chips are going to lock future graphics cards to Nvidia not ATI (now AMD) right?
From basic info... This looks like a step backwards than forwards for anyone that doesn't own a Macbook or Macbook Air...
How will this affect future Macbook Pros? Intel has their FSB clocked at 1066MT/s on Montevina... Will Nvidia have it clocked similarly or higher?
Also, Nvidia chips are going to lock future graphics cards to Nvidia not ATI (now AMD) right?
From basic info... This looks like a step backwards than forwards for anyone that doesn't own a Macbook or Macbook Air...
Well before we know what GPU the MB is going to have, its best not to put your hopes up too much. I guess its going (if its going to be moving away from Intel), that the MB GPU will be better then Intel but nowhere as near as good as the MBP GPU.
This is all I needed
The plan is to get a maxed out 24" iMac in a few weeks, and I was flipflopping between a maxed out MB or a stock MBP. Cheers Apple. Just don't make it an Nvidia card from 2001.
I've got similar shopping plans. I need a top end imac and some type of laptop for my wife to replace her Vaio (that I hate more than any laptop I've ever owned).
I'm sure I can't get lucky enough to get them both refreshed in 10 days
That's just nonsense. If Apple made a netbook format machine, would you describe it as a 'toy'.
Jobs's obsession with 'thin' means we have an anorexic MBA that's not 'small'. Seemingly, every time Apple look in a dictionary for 'small' or 'compact' - they get confused with 'thin'.
This is what i was thinking. swapping to an nVidia chipset would be quite a blow for Intel as they would be selling less chips to Apple and they couldn't claim the MBPs and MBs are Centrino 2 complaint.
would be nice if true but i can't see it, at least not at the current time with tension between Intel and nVidia over their competing integrated graphics chips.
I really hope this news is true and they give the regular mac books more power because there is no way I'm buying a new laptop in that price range if it gets outperformed in the video card department by my 9 month old dell xps1330.
I know a lot of people think they dont need better video cards but Im certainly not one of them, at least apple should give better customization options and let people choose.
I know a lot of people think they dont need better video cards but Im certainly not one of them, at least apple should give better customization options and let people choose.
Agree. What would be good- MBs come with that new nVidia (integrated?) graphics mentioned (MCP7A-U) as standard, with dedicated graphics as a BTO option...
That would keep the entry level costs down and only people who felt they needed the better graphics would have to foot the bill for them...the switching between integrated and dedicated sounded good as well.. Ok, so I don't want to shell out for a MBP *hides* It amazes me how everyone has just overlooked what he said, maybe we won't be seeing Nvidia Chipsets after all. Still i'd love to see them if it means better graphics in the Macbook, i'll want to go jump of a bridge if these new sexy macbooks are blemished by crappy intel graphics again
Let's just pray DDR3 stays away from this. Otherwise we can start thinking of $130 2GB dimms.
" it will be come the first mainstream uATX mobo with DDR3-1333 support"
" it will be come the first mainstream uATX mobo with DDR3-1333 support"
finaly
this was orinarly rumored for end of july..... loooongest wait ever
Mac Pro: 518 days.
Mac Mini: 425 days.
Cinema Displays: AUGUST 2006.
No, it's not.
Sorry, do we think the MB and MBP are going to become one product line? Built around the same design but with increasingly better screen sizes and internals?
But, thinking about it, that would mean the same product has to span a price range of £700 - £1800 which won't happen.
So, new MBs and MBPs...
But, thinking about it, that would mean the same product has to span a price range of £700 - £1800 which won't happen.
So, new MBs and MBPs...
That's exactly what I thought when I read the first post.
Although this move may be better for the customer in terms of performance, Intel has gone out of their way to design stuff "with" Apple because they like Apple's business. With Intel losing business due to a lack of "loyalty", is this going to bite us Apple in the ass in terms of whawt Intel will sell specifically to Apple?
"Never bite the hand that feeds you"......and all that.