If Apple wants to really innovate in their laptops they should add switchable graphics to the MBP. It improves battery life immensely and isn't even that costly. Lenovo has done it and it really is a great innovation. If the new MBP doesn't have switchable graphics im going to be quite disappointed.
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and what is the point of this thread?You should send this to Apple ,INC.
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Asus also has had it for a while now, and it is a pretty sweet concept that actually works in execution.
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What would be innovative would be a glass touchscreen instead of the regular trackpad that would be really hard for the competition to copy. -
For the record, Uniwill used switchable graphics back in 2006 as well.
That technology, however, wasn't so popular since it required restart which the new implementations don't. So, that is an innovation for the whole industry, more or less. However, it's up to the OEMs whether to implement it or not.
So far, only a few Sony and Lenovo notebooks have it, the rest apparently will lack of that "innovation" at this point.
One thing to consider is that "restart-free" switch works only under Vista so far. XP requires reboot, and there is no working drivers for Linux yet. OS X anyone? -
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also in the new alienwares
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Well how many laptops do you know of that have an 8600gt or better and still get 4+ hours of battery life? Apple's solution to power management is a hell of a lot better than that of most PC manufacturers.
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From what I've heard if they are not going to use Intel's chipset, then no they won't.
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It would be really interesting to see His Jobsness come on stage and announce it like he invented the feature and all. It'd probably **** me off to no end, since its another thing that Sony did first that Apple shamelessly ripped off and took the credit for *ahem*MacBook keyboard design*ahem*
Granted, Apple is even better at copying than Microsoft - MS can only rip things off, sell a whole lot of them and make a huge profit. Apple will rip things off, make you forget the previous things even existed, sell them, and make even more profit on them. Steve Jobs is a cunning, cunning man. -
He is a Genius!
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All new Nvidia and some ATI cards support hybrid mode. Those card can be used either with Intel chipset or their own chipsets. In the second case, dedicated cards will work together with their integrated GPUs (Hybrid SLI/Hybrid CrossFireX), we will see that soon (Studio XPS). -
Point is that no one is really innovative anymore. There are some times when people are innovative (Uniwill with the switchable graphics), but now adays it is more about ripping off a idea that someone had that was never popular
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When is the New Macbookpro coming out?
Switchable Graphics in New MBP's
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by singapore, Sep 15, 2008.