Mark Roulo (nothanks@xxx.com) on 8/4/10 wrote:
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>Rohit (@.) on 8/4/10 wrote:
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>>Richard Cownie (tich@pobox.com) on 8/4/10 wrote:
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>>>On the technical side, they've had a couple of years of
>>>unreliable and too-hot chips (leading to the loss of
>>>major OEMs such as Apple). And they don't appear to have
>>>any option in the near future to achieve tighter integration
>>>with a capable scalar cpu, which is what both AMD and Intel
>>>are doing.
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>>All current macbooks ship with nv gpu's
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>If I remember correctly, up until the recent (last week or so) iMac announcement,
>the *entire* Mac lineup was nVidia. Which I thought was a strategic move by Apple
>to jumpstart OpenCL on GPUs (don't ask me if I think this is the right strategy
>or not, it was just what I though Apple was doing).
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>The new iMacs all ship with ATI GPUs, so clearly nVidia has lost at least a bit
>of the Mac market compared to last year.
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>-Mark Roulo
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The all the iMacs, apart from the base-entry model went to ATI last October
- with this update the Core2 Duo / 9400M base-entry iMac was dropped... making the whole line-up Core iX/ATI-based.