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    Wouldn't the MBP 17" make more sense if...

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Mitlov, Jul 21, 2011.

  1. jaakobi

    jaakobi Notebook Evangelist

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    I think a 6850M would be cool on the 17". But that would be about the maximum performance card they could reasonably do, and they likely would need to redesign the cooling system and include a beefed up power supply with it.

    I think Apple is probably going to use the iCloud servers for games rendering and maybe general purpose CPU services. Look at OnLive to see where we're going. True, that would require a fast internet connection, but with 4G LTE, that probably is going to be a non-issue. I imagine that one day, you'll have an iPad (with no heat) that will run games better than a SLI GTX 590M desktop monster.
     
    jaakobi, Jul 24, 2011
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