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Photos of Claimed New 15-Inch MacBook Pro Logic Board Show NVIDIA GT 650M, Retained Layout
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http://blogs.adobe.com/premiereprot...y-playback-engine-and-adobe-premiere-pro.html
Correct.
It's just a bs Marketing name from Adobe for:
- 64-bit application
- multithreaded application
- processing of some things using CUDA (and OpenCL in Premiere Pro CS6)
Only NVIDIA GPUs are supporting this Adobe Engine.
http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/tech-specs.html
Guys...do a research
And I'm glad, that Apple is switching to NVIDIA. Because a lot Pros are using Adobes Software.
What I don't get is, why regular users are willing to buy a Pro Machine and are telling the Pros what they need and what they don't need. Ethernet is essential.
ODD should be BTO on Pro Machines. I personally don't need it. SSD and HDD in combinaton is something i would appreciate.
Yes, I think we might see something like this:
1. Legacy MacBook Pro's retaining their "Pro" moniker.
2. MacBook Air series expanded with a 15" Air.
3. "MacBook Air" becoming "MacBook", and Pro going away in the future. Remanining for a while longer with a conservative update (like seen here) to let Apple lower the costs of them, giving them at least a reason to exist.
It's no secret that Apple has thought the Air was far more cool than the Pro in the past few years. It's the laptop shown in advertising. Even without checking, I'm sure the OS X Mountain Lion show a rendered Air below the pictures in the feature gallery there. I think it's the future.
Since this would be a Pro logic board, I don't find it very interesting. I'm far from sure they'll get Retina displays either.
Not a surprise and I'm not too disappointed. The consumerist in us all always demanding something shiny and new eh? I've viewed most of the MBP rumours as pretty dubious. The expectations of many here do seem to be a bit unrealistic, a higher spec MBP neatly fitted into a MBA case.
Personally there is very little wrong with the current design, it's one of the thinnest notebooks around as it is, particularly as a 17". I can't think of many 17" notebooks as thin and light as the MBP.
The only real disappointment for me is that I'd really like a retina like display to be available on the 13" and 17" MBP even if only as an option. I'm a big fan of screen real estate.
Personally I think this points to a modest update to the MBP and perhaps an entirely new 15" MBA like notebook if we're lucky. If it follows the MBA it will have compromises though.
Personally there is very little wrong with the current design, it's one of the thinnest notebooks around as it is, particularly as a 17". I can't think of many 17" notebooks as thin and light as the MBP.
The only real disappointment for me is that I'd really like a retina like display to be available on the 13" and 17" MBP even if only as an option. I'm a big fan of screen real estate.
Personally I think this points to a modest update to the MBP and perhaps an entirely new 15" MBA like notebook if we're lucky. If it follows the MBA it will have compromises though.
Apologies, I know little if anything about the Pros, I've just been keeping an eye on the MBPs.
Have to admit, I care little about the redesign of the MBP asthetically. It is already a superb design. I just want a portable mac that is an absolutle powerhouse.
This would fit the bill.
I think Apple are going to Spec Bump most of the Laptops However I believe a Hybrid between the Air and Pro is coming which will have no ODD and will have Retina, it will only be available in one size for now, 13 or 15.
Or Possibly a 14" making the Bezel very thin.
Or Possibly a 14" making the Bezel very thin.
Radeon 5770 ? Seriously? lol
I mean Apple does not always use the latest and fastest cards, but using a 3 year old card that's already in the current 2 year old Mac Pro would be a new low.
...the ODD has to go...
although there are obviously still a lot of people, who from time to time use their optical drives, the reasons for kicking it out are in no relation to the few benefits you have from keeping it. Esepecially if the MBP keeps the overall form factor, the gained space could be use for a SSD/HDD solution, larger battery and overall better thermal perfomance. You can get an external ODD for 40Dollars and there are hardly Pro users who need it on a daily basis. The time of physical storage with limited capacties is long gone. Having a device with such a low pricetag and (in comparison) so little use taking up half the space in a modern machine is just not right.
Regarding ethernet port and firewire: The situation here is similar in my opinion. Although i always prefer a wired connection, i don't think they should let the shape of traditional ports set limits to the design. Even though the MBP is a very capable machine, it is still a mobile machine, and portability matters. In case someone uses his MBP as workstation in a fixed set up and wired connections, this still can be done, as more and more thunderbolt based dockingsolutions begin to pop up. What can be better than to have a laptop, with desktop like performance, plugged into your setup through a single cable? I still think they should keep the current formfactor and just take out all the extra stuff thats no longer justified to have by using that space for what it is actually all about: simplicity, performance and battery life - actually the stuff apple was always awesome at.
although there are obviously still a lot of people, who from time to time use their optical drives, the reasons for kicking it out are in no relation to the few benefits you have from keeping it. Esepecially if the MBP keeps the overall form factor, the gained space could be use for a SSD/HDD solution, larger battery and overall better thermal perfomance. You can get an external ODD for 40Dollars and there are hardly Pro users who need it on a daily basis. The time of physical storage with limited capacties is long gone. Having a device with such a low pricetag and (in comparison) so little use taking up half the space in a modern machine is just not right.
Regarding ethernet port and firewire: The situation here is similar in my opinion. Although i always prefer a wired connection, i don't think they should let the shape of traditional ports set limits to the design. Even though the MBP is a very capable machine, it is still a mobile machine, and portability matters. In case someone uses his MBP as workstation in a fixed set up and wired connections, this still can be done, as more and more thunderbolt based dockingsolutions begin to pop up. What can be better than to have a laptop, with desktop like performance, plugged into your setup through a single cable? I still think they should keep the current formfactor and just take out all the extra stuff thats no longer justified to have by using that space for what it is actually all about: simplicity, performance and battery life - actually the stuff apple was always awesome at.
Yea but still, wheres the ''doubling down the secrecy'' Tim mentioned recently??.. While even the back cover of an iPhone 5 is top-secret material, this is the logic board of a unreleased Apple product for crying out loud!! How can they even think of getting this out of the production plant?
OMG, don't know how much more wrong 9to5 can be... don't know where to start : the 5770 (that was 2 generations ago) or the so called 3.2ghz quad core (which doesn't even exist in the Sandy Bridge lineup). They obviously got the old specs mixed up...
The slot of Superdrive helps to level the underpressure inside the case of MBP. How it is important for cooling and dissipating 90W of heat I don't have to tell. Macbook Air have problems with dissipating 22W of that, and what about the 90W? That is main reason why Apple not changed the case of MBP this year.
Yeah, I am just looking at this now and it simply does not match to any Sandy Bridge Xeon CPUs
Normal configuration: 3.2GHz quad-core processor, 6GB of RAM, 1TB hard drive, and the ATI Radeon 5770 graphics chip.
Normal configuration: 2.4GHz 12-core processor, 12GB of RAM, 1TB hard drive, and the ATI Radeon 5770 graphics chip.
For single CPU, the possible options would be a 4 Core 3.6 or a 6 core 3.2
For dual CPU, there are no 2.4 6 core CPUs that are suitable. There is a Xeon 6 core E5-2630 2.3 GHz (most likely) or a 4 core 2.4 2609.
Yea but still, wheres the ''doubling down the secrecy'' Tim mentioned recently??.. While even the back cover of an iPhone 5 is top-secret material, this is the logic board of a unreleased Apple product for crying out loud!! How can they even think of getting this out of the production plant?
Tim doesn't have much control of workers at another company, now does he?
Please tell me what you're smoking and where can I get it?
Thanks in advance.
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OMG. NO DOUBLING DOWN ON SECRECY. THAT SHOWS APPLE IS ON THE WAY DOWN!!! ETC ETC ETC </sarcasm>