New Macbook pro is on the way....

Why would you want a IGP in a MBP...

 

1. Anyone should tell you that QuadCore should kill the battery life except if they have some QuadCore Centrino.
2. Why ATI when nVidia have better stuff? Some 9800M GT. Again, expect the battery life to drop.
3. They already have a Black MBP, I believe there will be some colors
4. NVIDIA FTW!
5. Do you want some liquid cooling with that?
6. 14'' have the weight of a 15'' with the power of a 13''.
7. Apple and low prices cannot be in the same sentence except negative. You can only have Mac OS and low price in the same sentence and that's with Psystar

 

I don't recall Apple ever making a black MBP? And a 9800M GT would never fit in a MBP.

 

Heard of mobile quad cores?

1)Take a look at ATI 3780 benchmarks
2)Heard of frying nvidia cards?

A link ,please?

And i agree with rest

 

You mean the CPU's that take twice the power and produce twice the heat of their dual core brethren?

 

A lot of people here will disagree with you on that. Also current nVidia chips have this problem of overheating...

 

My 43 degres 9800M GT disagree with you

Sorry, I got confused with the MacBook.

Just got a quick look at the datasheet of Core2Quad Mobile: http://download.intel.com/design/processor/datashts/318726.pdf



My CPU is a 35W. These are 95W or more. I'm not an Apple specialist but don't you think that Quad/Power = Heat = Fans = Vents/Noise which is totally against what Apple fans want, ie a cool (kewl) looking laptop.

And even if there was some improvements and a new CPU was released, you would have to wait few months before its available on Apple hardware. I have Montevina

 

are you sure that those are for mobile?

 

Any rumors re a docking connector on the new macbooks?

Thanks
JohnG

 

Here's your page: http://www.intel.com/products/laptop/processors/index.htm?iid=processors_body+nb_core. Its written "Notebook processors" on top. I chose Core2Quad > Technical Documents > Data Sheet, the first one

 

*sniff* do I smell a fanboy? I think because of quality issues ATI may have a good chance of being in the new Macbook pro.

 

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/334/C16213/
keep on dreaming .
apple is keeping nvidia's chipsets in their upcoming notebooks.

 

That too is a rumor, much like all the other rumors going around for the MacBook and MacBook Pro's. Therefore, I don't believe it.

Apple has used ATI Radeon's in their Mac Pro and iMac lines so why wouldn't they do the same with the MBP?

 

Don't they have 8800GS' as well?

 

They have the 8800GT for the Mac Pro as an option for $150 on the US site. The MacBook Pro only ships with 8600 GT, and the iMac only comes in ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT or ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro.

 

have you ever been to www.apple.com? lots of information about Apple products.

 

Hm, sorry I'm trying to stay objective in my opinion. I don't really have something against ATI, but for a long time, NVIDIA was ahead of ATI. Recently, ATI have done a great job producing high performing cheap cards but I just say that NVIDIA still have the best video card: http://www.notebookcheck.com/ATI-AMD-Mobility-Radeon-HD-3850-X2.9442.0.html. Still, there's not a big difference but on the (high-end) mobile market, there's more NVIDIA than ATI. And as a gamer, I've always trusted NVIDIA.

You should just wish for a high performing card as both companies can deliver that. But high performance means cooling system. I would be amazed if they could put a 9800M GT (or some ATI ) in a 1'' thick MacBook Pro with a good cooling system while keeping the design neat.

 

Yeah...that won't happen...1" thick notebook + 9800m GT

 

That would be amazing, but I think the best case scenario to expect for this refresh is a 9600m gt.

 

The 9800M GT can actually fit in a 1''; its just that the cooling system is not viable. A lot of the fanboys would complain if they added .5'' and vents holes on the whole bottom and at the rear + a lot of noise during load.

Based on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbook_pro#Specifications, I belive they will put some 9600M GT Or ATI HD36xx, Montevina (or maybe not), maybe some 500GB hard drive (at high price) and stick to DDR2. Does it worth to wait? Of course, since Apple never (or rarely) have price drop on their product so launch price = price in 6 months. Even if the design itself is revolutionary, Apple have to stick to the hardware available on the market. But I guess with some advertising, saying that the New Macbook Pro is 200% faster than the older one (instead of giving some 3dMark06 stats) and saying that it has the new Intel platform (released 2 months ago) and marketing with words instead of numbers, every fanboy will throw themself at it. I just love if they said: Old Macbook: 4000 pts in 3dMark06, New Macbook: 5000 pts in 3dMark06.

 

no other manufacturer does that BTW.