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Mobility Radeon X1900 in next MBP?
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What do you think are the chances they'll up the graphics card to the newly announced Mobility Radeon X1900?
Mobility Radeon™ X1900 - Overview
I think that would rock if they did that. Mobility Radeon with 512MB GDDR3 RAM.
There might be some heat issues though.
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If apple decides to incorperate the X1900, they will underclock it to handle the heat issues but then who wil pay the premium and get substandard performance?
Originally Posted by brokenjago 
What do you think are the chances they'll up the graphics card to the newly announced Mobility Radeon X1900?
Mobility Radeon� X1900 - Overview
I think that would rock if they did that. Mobility Radeon with 512MB GDDR3 RAM.
There might be some heat issues though.
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Well, I'm sure Apple could pull some of that engineering Magic and stick em in there.
What about the iMacs?
If apple decides to incorporate the X1900, they will underclock it to handle the heat issues but then who will pay the premium and get substandard performance?
They already underclock the X1600XT significantly, so it's not like it'll be anything new.
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Originally Posted by brokenjago
Well, I'm sure Apple could pull some of that engineering Magic and stick em in there.
That 'magic' is called underclocking. And it sucks. You're paying for an expensive top of the line GPU (which you later have to downclock) just so you can show off its name on the spec sheet, but actually the performance is closer to a less expensive GPU.
They already underclock the X1600XT significantly, so it's not like it'll be anything new.
The X1600 on the 17" is not underclocked. On the 15" it is, however much less so than it was on the rev A. Anyway, as long as you're fine with downclocking a X1600, what good do you expect from a 1900 (which in turn would likely have to be downclocked even more)?
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Hm.
I'm sure you'd get quite a performance boost from the X1900XT with the extra pixel shaders and all that lovely stuff, even if it had to be underclocked?
And perhaps thy can also stick one in the iMacs when the Mac Pro is next upgraded to support DX10 cards?
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They didn't use X1800, why would they use X1900?
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Because I said they should... 
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