According to a “confirmed” report from AppleInsider, 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.
Pic from NVIDIA’s site, that laptop looks familiar
Kept uncharacteristically secret by NVIDIA for most of the year, the MCP79 platform is so far considered a substitute for Intel’s Centrino 2 “Montevina” platform, offering support for the same 1066MHz front side bus, optional DDR3 memory and PCI Express 2.0 interfaces.
The new NVIDIA Chipsets offers several advantages over the previous chipsets. From a physical design perspective, some of them are:
Smaller physical size using one chip rather than two – This reduces the total footprint needed for the mainboard in normally tight notebook enclosures.
DriveCache – which uses Flash storage to speed up boot times
Hybrid SLI – which switches from discrete to integrated graphics when battery is low
It is still not known if Apple will take advantage of these technologies but still, the biggest advantage still lies in NVIDIA’s graphics expertise.
These new NVIDIA Chipsets is believed to use a new set of GeForce 9300 and 9400 series integrated mainboard graphics processors, they support the latest visual effects and expected to surpass Intel integrated graphics chipsets that currently power Apple’s MacBooks. But still, these integrated graphics chipsets will lag behind compared to the dedicated ones that are used in Apple’s higher-end notebooks.
The use of these new NVIDIA Chipsets will be of importance when Apple releases Mac OS X Snow Leopard, the next-generation operating system aimed for release next summer. [via AppleInsider]
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