Article: Parallelism at HotPar 2010
By: Groo (charlie.delete@this.semiaccurate.com), August 5, 2010 2:07 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Richard Cownie (tich@pobox.com) on 8/4/10 wrote:
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>So what happens when Apple gets round to putting Nehalem
>or SandyBridge cpu's into macbooks ? No more NVidia
>chipset; probably no separate GPU for the low-end
>machines, just use the cpu's IGP; and for the high-end
>models, surely ATI, with an array of good small
>power-efficient Evergreen parts (or upcoming Southern
>Islands chips), and already with the cards in iMacs
>and Mac Pros, will have the inside track and the
>flexibility to offer a price that NVidia can't match.
>
>Nvidia is trading on its past glory. But that's fading
>fast.
>
They tried.
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/09/28/apple-split-laptop-lines/
-Charlie
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>So what happens when Apple gets round to putting Nehalem
>or SandyBridge cpu's into macbooks ? No more NVidia
>chipset; probably no separate GPU for the low-end
>machines, just use the cpu's IGP; and for the high-end
>models, surely ATI, with an array of good small
>power-efficient Evergreen parts (or upcoming Southern
>Islands chips), and already with the cards in iMacs
>and Mac Pros, will have the inside track and the
>flexibility to offer a price that NVidia can't match.
>
>Nvidia is trading on its past glory. But that's fading
>fast.
>
They tried.
http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/09/28/apple-split-laptop-lines/
-Charlie