Apple has scheduled the refresh for late June during his meeting.
I doubt they will refresh an other time one or two months later
Consider that haswell is planned to launch on 28 May.
For sure in the refresh of late June mid July it will have haswell.. The point is GPU? If they will still have 650m I will never consider to buy one of that
hawell is not planned to launch on 28 may, not on notebooks at least
You make me happy macKid
Will be updated with a base GPU choice or an optional?
Moreover..can the next GPU switch to amd?8850m or 8870m
Or is more probable that will we see same Kepler core on that? Ofc if they put on refresh 660m that has the same performance of 650m.........for upgrade I can consider only 665m 670m 675m (nvidia side) accepting that nvidia won't refresh with new Maxwell mobile until 2014
Just one time and just before retina come out macbook pro used Amd Ati GPU
What do you think? what s more likely?
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I Don t know thermal requirements of 650m but all I can say is that 8850m drain 100w and that Samsung was been able to fit a more powerful 8870m into ultrabook..
I hope this will shake apple!
Maxwell is only going to be in 2014, all gpus that have been announced from nvidia for the mobile refresh are: 0
There are no talks about any, only the 780m, which could well be a rehash of the 680mx (which for now only comes in the imac 27)
in all probability they are going to rebadge everything like they usually do
The GT650M has a TDP of 45W:
http://community.futuremark.com/hardware/gpu/NVIDIA+GeForce+GT+650M/review
Apparently NVidia is supposed to release an updated set of the Kepler mobile GPUs in April, so we might see something like a GT 750M or 760M.
That Samsung 7 Series Chronos is 5.18 pounds and 0.82" thick, compared to the rMBP which is 4.46 pounds and 0.71" thick, so that same GPU might be pushing the cooling limits.
I hope they dont use nvidia again, their kepler is just abysmal for people that are professionally using any image and video editing software.
8870m is just a rehash of the 7870m, which guess what is their TDP? 45w
You're wrong. They do noy update the GPU every time.. Look at the latest refresh of mbpr
The latest was a price drop and a token processor bump - likely because the new processors were ones Intel simply had more of. Making RAM cheaper and +0.1 GHz (with a 25% reduction in cache, mind you) does not qualify as a "refresh" of the line.
They are, however, considering it a new revision, and you should take that literally. They used this as an opportunity to clear up most (though definitely not all) of the launch bugs.
They actually do, every year they do a change in gpu and cpu. The minor spec bump from the midlife shelf of that version of the mb are to reflect the gains of production and quality from intel in their making new cpus, This year has been different with some internal changes being made
Just a few remarks: the Chronos laptop in question is a 17" model weighting 2.8kg which I wouldn't call an ultrabook by any stretch of imagination - and the TDP of 8870M is significantly higher than that of 650M. I don't see any chance of card like that getting into the rMBP, which already operates on the limits of its thermal specification under load. A GPU with 45/50W is the absolute maximum of what rMBP can take.
is15 inches ...with a 100w GPU card
The dimensions are quite the same of rmbp
the TDP of the 8870m is 45w.
you guys mistake power consumption and Thermal Design Power (TDP), one can or cannot have the same number of the order, but they dont are the same thing. Also 100w is the power of the entire notebook. And there is a 15'' chronos with the 8870m
As usual samsung in all their models they have a problem with the machine, and in this one they are suffering from throttling issues, some of it points out to the BIOS (the temps of the throttling for the gpu are indeed low 70c) and others to power consumption VS power provided, 90w psus for those kind of pcs is absurd, they should pack 120w ones.
