“Apple will announce as part of its special media event Tuesday a new family of MacBooks that will abandoned Intel’s integrated graphics chipsets for those part of NVIDIA’s new mobile platform,” Kasper Jade and Aidan Malley report for AppleInsider.
“People familiar with the matter say, at a minimum, the 13-inch systems will adopt chipsets from NVIDIA’s MCP79 platform, as was predicted earlier this week by technology journalist Ryan Shrout,” Jade and Malley report. “Word of the switch validates claims first published by AppleInsider earlier this summer, speficially that Apple would drop Intel’s stock designs for the first time since the transition to x86 processors in 2006.”
“Apple reportedly will use NVIDIA’s MCP79 platform which “is believed to use a new set of GeForce 9300 and 9400 series integrated mainboard graphics processors. Regardless of which variant Apple uses, both are expected to support the latest visual effects and will theoretically blow past the performance of not just the Intel GMA X3100 video on Apple’s current MacBooks but also the GMA 4500MHD found on newer notebooks using Intel’s reference hardware,” Jade and Aidan Malley report.
“Separately, Digg founder Kevin Rose is claiming in a yet-to-be-shown live Diggnation episode that the new 13-inch MacBooks will include Blu-ray at some level,”Jade and Aidan Malley report.
More in the full article here.
Also, more info via an AppleInsider report from yesterday, “NVIDIA platform claimed likely for new MacBook line,” here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]
“I agree, Apple can’t refer to the drive as “Mac Blu Ray”
If they do, I want to meet this lucky Ray fellah.
No BlueRay for Macbooks
MacBook Pro’s perhaps, but are YOU willing to give up burning audio cds?
I don’t think so.
You know, BlueRay is Sony and Sony is Sony/BMG, part of the RIAA, the music industry.
Obama’s loose lips sinks ships.
Most people raised in Hawaii are natural tattletales. It’s because they live happy in “paradise” and lose their guard, they become very naive.
Obama already gave up a sensitive military operation in Pakistan. What’s next?
Biden is in there in case the Democrats have to pull Obama’s plug.
I love my black MacBook I bought in May, but the Intel graphics chipset leaves much to be desired.
Raving MacHead:
Palin will fix it with her vast knowledge of “Packing Stan”.
She’s a lot like the iPhone adapter. Defective and can’t handle power.
McCain will volunteer as a hostage.
You’re a racist asshole.
P.S. Ask any intelligent woman (most people except Sarah can name a newspaper she’s read) how many decades Caribou Barbie will push back women’s rights. McCain screwed up but that is no surprise. He’s a pig. Want proof?
A Blu-ray drive would be great if your INTERNAL monitor is capable of displaying Full-HD. That’d be the 17″ MacBook Pro with optional high-res display (1920 x 1200).
Maybe THAT would be the $3000 model that was hypothesized by someone earlier in the week.
Anyway, it’s log overdue that the macbook line include a REAL graphics card. Those built-in Intel things were crap from Day One!
RavingMacHead… go crawl back into your spider hole.
Breaking News!
Top Palintologists have determined the type of dinosaur Jesus rode into Nazareth!
“No BlueRay for Macbooks”
Illiterate? Idiot.
“Most people raised in Hawaii are natural tattletales. It’s because they live happy in “paradise” and lose their guard, they become very naive.”
You are a dangerous mental patient. This isn’t a flame. It’s a warning.
99% don’t need blu-ray, esp on a portable! I’d rather see efforts put into home and travel entertainment. I want to play my digital movie content on the entertainment system in my car for my kids before I wan another plastic disc spinner thingie in my portable mac.
“before I wan another plastic disc spinner thingie in my portable mac.”
It’s not called a plastic disc spinner thingie, it’s called a plastic netflix to car entertainment system movie ripper thingie.
“Caribou Barbie”
OMG, does she come with a 30-06 and a Buck knife? I want one!!!
BTW, an external blu-ray drive would be fine – I’m not sure they to build them in yet, especially in a laptop. When blu-ray becomes more widely adopted maybe throw it in there.
Let’s see… we have
a) Blu-Ray
b) BlueRay
c) bluray
d) Bluray
e) Blu Ray
Which is it?
How about… none of the above
try
Blu-ray
or BD (Blu-ray Disc)
Microsoft put all kinds of DRM hooks deep in Vista to get HD/blu ray DVD playback into it.
To get HD playback, you have to have an HDCP compliant monitor.
Apple will not put these DRM hooks in any OS it develops(I hope).
There are no HDCP compliant monitors or displays from Apple.
There is no playback software for OS X that allows blu-ray playback.
If you want a blu-ray drive so badly for backups-go buy one. They have externals available with Mac software to do data read/write.
Also, who cares about hi-def play back on a small screen?
The results are not much better than regular DVD on a 17″ or 13″ display-really negligible.
I can see the NVIDIA graphics. At least in the ‘upper-end’ MacBooks and most defiantly the MacBook Pro’s.
Doubtful on the Blu-Ray inclusion, though it if its, it will almost certainly only be on the MacBook Pro’s and if that perhaps only as an added option.
Other rumors about the ‘low-end’ price point being $800.00 leads me to believe that the lowest end MacBook could be a current model just wrapped in an aluminum case.
“OMG, does she come with a 30-06 and a Buck knife? I want one!!!”
She’ll put a laser dot on your forehead from Marine One. Palin will play the flute at your funeral.
Academic Background:
<U>Theodore Roosevelt</U>: Bachelor of arts degree (cum laude) in history and government from Harvard College (1880). Attended Columbia Law School 1880-82). Author of numerous works on history and politics, including The Naval War of 1812 (required reading at the U.S. Naval Academy), Life of Thomas Hart Benton, Life of Gouverneur Morris, Essays in Practical Politics, The Winning of the West (four volumes), History of New York, Hero Tales from American History, American Ideals, and The Rough Riders.
<U>Sarah Palin</U>: Bachelor of science degree in communications-journalism from the University of Idaho (1987).
Law Enforcement/Military Experience:
<U>Theodore Roosevelt</U>: Deputy sheriff in the Dakota Territory, police commissioner of New York City, captain in the New York National Guard, colonel with the 1st US Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, veteran of the Spanish-American War.
<U>Sarah Palin</U>: None.
Political Experience:
<U>Theodore Roosevelt</U>: Member of New York state assembly, U.S. civil service commissioner, New York City police commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, governor of New York.
<U>Sara Palin</U>: City council member and mayor of Wasilla, Alaska; governor of Alaska.
@steak
Yea but she can skin a moose in pumps! Which VP would you rather look at for the next 4 years?
:-p
“Which VP would you rather look at for the next 4 years? “
One that doesn’t mistake the nuclear bomb button with OnStar.
Palin is an idiot.
the Macbook Mini will continue to use intels graphics, macbook will use mid range nvidia, and macbook pro will use high end graphics.
I have it on good authority that the new MacBook line will include GPS built in and Multi-Touch Screen that will not be taken full advantage of until the release of Snow Leopard. During the demo on tuesday, beta software –much like the Boot Camp beta process– will be demoed and released with the computer for the pubic to test and will expire a little after the release of Snow Leopard.
MDN had been aggressively deleting the political posts.
Guess they must’ve taken today off.
One that doesn’t mistake the nuclear bomb button with OnStar.
Palin is an idiot.
Oh thank you so much!
You post clearly explains the prospects of Apple dumping Intel Integrated video and/or adopting Blu-ray.
Doorknob.
I am asking the moderator of this site to please eliminate any political flaming nonsense- I am leaving now because I’ve had enough of it and I will no longer return to this site if the crazies and racist lunatics are allowed to pollute it with their ignorance. There are plenty- in fact, countless other places for them to vent. This is Mac Daily News. I’m interested in the upcoming Macbooks. I am not interested in the retarded arguments regarding people’s opinions, especially if they concern non-sequiters such as politics. This is the third time I’ve had to walk away from here out of disgust.
Not only is Intel dumped but a possibility that MacBooks and 15-in MBPs no longer have Firewire 🙁