I love my 2013 rMBP 13"... But it would've loved to have an Iris 5200 in there. Is there a particular technical reason why apple didn't put that graphics system in there?
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rMBP 13" & Crystalwell
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The Iris 5200 is only available in Crystal Well CPUs. All Crystal Wells are quad core and either have a BGA socket or a R-series SKU.
They have an entire team of well-payed professionals on it 24/7
You know what.. I bet it was Will.I.Am didn't he work for Intel at one point? He's a pretty savvy dude
They have an entire team of well-payed professionals on it 24/7
They used to be named after places. Mostly in California if I recall correctly. But that was many years ago in the Penryn and Nehalem days (Wolfdale, Yorkfield, Harpertown, etc).
Apple could have included it, but chose not too, I can only surmise that they did it to further differentiate between the 13" and 15" model.
Another logical explanation is that it could be too hot for such a small enclosure, the small fans may not have been strong enough to evacuate the heat sufficiently
Another logical explanation is that it could be too hot for such a small enclosure, the small fans may not have been strong enough to evacuate the heat sufficiently
Your second explanation is more like it.
Besides, it's not Apple's fault that dual-core processors didn't have variants with Iris Pro 5200. Blame it on Intel
They are internal Intel code-names which have bizarrely become mainstream over the last 10 years.
The same could be said for OSX's names. They were originally just called OSX 10.0, 10.1, etc.
This was the frist time Intel launched the edram chips and it was really more of a test run. The chips cost more to produce and the mark up makes less of a difference on the already expensive quad cores. eDram on cheap dual cores would have cost too much and was too risky for Intel. Intel would have sacrificed profit margin or volume sold depending how they priced them.
Intel promised that with Braodwell this edram should become a more commonplace thing and is worth the power consumption down to 17W TDP chips according to some interview anand did. Ergo on Air chips it wouldn't be worth it but the slightly higher TDP dual cores should come with edram options. Most likely all big GPU chips will come with edram on Broadwell.
Intel promised that with Braodwell this edram should become a more commonplace thing and is worth the power consumption down to 17W TDP chips according to some interview anand did. Ergo on Air chips it wouldn't be worth it but the slightly higher TDP dual cores should come with edram options. Most likely all big GPU chips will come with edram on Broadwell.
