“The new MacBook Airs are due any day now, and I’m excited about them, especially if reports are true about some high-end tech they’ll be using,” Dennis Sellers reports for MacNews.
“Apple will adopt ‘Toggle DDR 2.0,’ a 19-nanometer process for NAND flash memory, according to a a report from the ‘Macotakara’ web site,” Sellers reports. “Toggle DDR 2.0, an industry first, sports 64-gigabit flash chips manufactured using 20nm processes that boast a 400Mbps transfer rate. That makes these toggle DDR 2.0 chips about three times faster than toggle DDR 1.0 (a 133Mbps interface) — or 10 times faster than the 40Mbps SDR NAND flash currently in use.”
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Sellers reports, “Apple’s current SSDs offer read and write speeds of over 200MB/s, more than four times the 400Mb/s — or 50MB/s — offered by Toggle DDR 2.0. Apple would be chaining multiple chips together, however, providing the performance required to match or exceed today’s technology, according to the ‘thinq’ web site.”
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Anybody else get the feeling Apple is run behind the scenes by aliens?
Last I checked, Jobs was still running the joint.
Apple doesn’t care about the now… always looking ahead.
besides, who needs aliens…
Aliens < steve jobs. They come to him for stuff I think
This post gets my nomination for Post of the Day.
Apple is obviously run by Aliens. How else could one of their old lap tops have been used to bring down the alien shields in Independence Day?
LMAO
Literally, I have always said that Jobs is “the board member with a direct relationship to extraterrestrials”
I’ve always been convinced that Microsoft is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Ferengi.
Except for the hair Ballmer and William Shatner bear a resemblance. Wait a minute, doesn’t Shatner wear a toupee? Maybe they are twins.
Look closely during the next episode of $h*! Our CEO Says.
Ballmer is Rush Limbaugh’s twin fart.
I’m looking to buy new when Lion comes out. Just not sure if it will be a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro. I’m quite anxious to see the revised Air.
I care for SSDs getting faster than they already are nowhere near as much as getting cheaper and with more storage. Should Apple release a 15″ MBA that has 256Gb standard, a discrete low power GPU and decent speed for under $1800, it’d be the best computer EVER made *-*
Why build in a discrete GPU? I think the smart thing is to have an external GPU that connects with Thunderbolt. Then you can have a high power gaming laptop when you want it, and a really energy efficient laptop the other 95% of the time.
When you want to upgrade your graphics, you can just plug in a new GPU and sell your old one. Or daisy chain the two GPUs together. This is all possible with Thunderbolt.
I agree this would be awesome and a great thing to do for the consumer!
Howerver we are talking about apple here. The would never allow such a thing to take away from the sale of there next refresh. The ability to upgrade your system has never been one off apples strongsuits.
Kind of defeats the main purpose of a laptop: portability. Graphic professionals aren’t interested in a powerful GPU sitting back on a desk somewhere. They want it built into the laptop. If I’m not mistaken, newer MB Pros have both an integrated and separate GPU that switches automatically.
You are not mistaken.
The 17″ has both integrated graphics, and a high-end graphics card.
I could be totally wrong, but I don’t think discrete GPUs make much of a difference for graphic professionals. Photoshop seems just as responsive with an good integrated GPU and a lot of RAM as it does with with a discrete GPU.
It would make a huge difference for rendering video or 3d animation, but I think people who do this professionally would already offload the rendering to a cluster of high end desktops, otherwise they’d have to wait days for anything big to render. So I think when people like this edit their work outside their studio on their own laptop, they wouldn’t expect it to be as fast anyway.
If this did happen this same device would be able to be used on apples whole range of osx products so you could in theory plug it into you iMac or mini to do some hard hitting computations if you wanted too
For MacBook air apple should dump intel sandy bridge orderly and change to AMD Fusion processor .
2 x the battery life when playing hd movies!!
Great: With all that extra power you will be able to launch Safari marginally faster than ever before.
hi there apple is not the only company useing alien techology nintendo micrisoft xbox alien ware hard core computers oh buy the way did you now nasa sent 2 iphone 4 in to space for face time with et and nintendo luanching satelites in too deep space why dose a game comapny invest in non humman gamers wii u video calls too all species gamers not just earth or humman gamers