Looks like we’ve got confirmation (oh wait, we confirmed it a week ago) of what everyone’s been talking about; Apple is definitely giving the Intel chipset the boot and moving to an NVIDIA one. Hopefully this means not only more power but more battery life (hybrid SLI), more versatility (OpenCL and CUDA), and slightly smaller size (unified chipset architecture). I don’t think anyone’s super surprised at this move, although there had been rumors that NVIDIA was getting out of the chipset game altogether.
I’m happy to hear that such an interesting change is definitely coming over what will likely be my next laptop — let’s just hope we don’t have an epidemic of cracked solder.
Does this mean we’re going to need to update from Intel to keep up-to-date with the next generation OS’s? Or are we keeping the same Intel core but with a new chipset?
Oh and do you think we’ll get a change in design? It is much needed, but nVidia employees have only seen the same design with new chips. Is Apple playing with us again?
“epidemic of cracked solder”… I believe that comment is reserved for the xbox 360. After reading comments from 360 supporters who have gone through several RROD and seeing their friends go through at least once or more.(yet they still continue playing 360) Now, that sounds more like a epidemic than the nvidia issue. I like nvidia, ati, and intel gpu (if you can call the intel a gpu, lol but hey, it works.) Yes, they all have bad and good chips. The problem is picking the one that works great for that generation.