Sandy Bridge chip leaked in Acer, Gateway, Lenovo PCs

[Nein01]

"Discoveries today have uncovered one of the first processors using Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture in a handful of notebooks along with as yet unannounced AMD mobile graphics"

Read more: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=4d5edec58bc4aad7ea33bf9760265f21


Does this hold any implication that Apple may be going with AMD as well?

 

[Hellhammer]

Not really, Apple can use nVidia if they want to. I hope Apple goes with AMD though. I wouldn't say this is a big piece of news as many CPUs have been known for months. Wikipedia has probably the best summary

 

[jav6454]

I hope Apple dumps nVidia GPUs fast. ATI has some killer options thus far. Also, on the CPU side, Llanos, Ontario and Zacate have some promising features if truly well developed. Atom will be biting dust soon.

 

[Erasmus]

If Apple puts a >2GHz quad, and an AMD HD 6570 in the next MBPs, I will be very, very happy, and buy a 17" fully tricked out immediately.