New Macbooks - finally
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As far as I understand it, they're engineered the device to have both nvidia chipsets onboard, but a lot of users won't need the performance provided by the 9600M, and as such will be able to direct the OS to use only the lower-power 9400 chipset, which will in turn extend the device's battery life by a full hour, if you believe the marketing wank.
I've not seen this exact configuration before, but I'm making these assumptions based on a clip of text from the 15" MBP page itself:"The new MacBook Pro combines the efficiency of an integrated graphics processor with the desktop-class performance of a discrete graphics processor. That’s because it has both."
It's an interesting prospect, but I'm still not sure I think the spread of technology across the 3 different sizes is quite right. And is DisplayPort actually used by people overseas? In Oz I have seen precisely diddley-squat.
- yeah 5 hours, would be on its first day of its life. then its all down hill from there. lol.akrokdesign