14.12.2009 00:35 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Next Revision MacBook Pro to Feature NVIDIA GPUs

If one looks back at GPUs used in the past Mac hardware models, we would notice that Apple paid attention to share and respect an equilibrium between ATI/AMD and NVIDIA models. Mac Pro always feature the default entry-level model from one brand and the high-end model from the other. Similarly, if iMac 3D display was powered by ATI GPU, then MacBook/MacBook Pro would then get GPU from NVIDIA.Today, we have GeForce and Radeon for the Mac Pro, Radeon in the iMac and GeForce in Apple notebooks. So, we should expect future MacBook/MacBook Pro models to be released in January to be powered by NVIDIA GPUs despite the Intel integrated chipset. The camelon's company seems to have already capture 80% of the notebook GPU market for the forthcoming Intel mobile platform, surfing on the success of the past/current GeForce 9400M.So, it would be perfect is Apple, Intel and NVIDIA could find a way to make it possible to switch from the Intel integrated chipset to the NVIDIA discrete GPU without rebooting the c

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