“Nvidia’s CEO added his two cents to an increasingly popular theory on laptop design: that is, the MacBook Air as a template for all future designs,” Brooke Crothers reports for CNET.
“In case you’re wondering where the laptop is headed–circa 2014–Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang offered what could be considered a highly educated guess in response to a question I posed to him in a phone interview today,” Crothers reports. “‘You’ll have trouble finding one that doesn’t look like the MacBook Air,’ he said. ‘I think the Macbook Air is a good mental image of what a clamshell laptop will look like.'”
Crothers reports, “Nvidia chips have played an important role in the MacBook Air. Apple chose Nvidia graphics silicon beginning with the second-generation Air. And its role eclipsed that of Intel in the 2010 MBA (third generation): Nvidia’s GeForce 320M graphics processor is the only major logic chip to see a significant upgrade in the Air (Intel’s silicon changed very little from second- to third-generation).”
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple leads. The rest follow at a great distance.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dow C.” for the heads up.]