[kurt.physics]

What and when, now that its closer, what do we expect from the October 14 event?

Well, they have done ipods/itunes and a couple of months ago they brought out a 3.06 GHz iMac, so its obviously time for the laptop line up! What do we expect, also, whats your prediction for the new OS to come out?

also, if new macbook pros come out oct 14, should we still wait for macworld?

[mduell]

Same thing we expected a month ago.

No reason to wait for MacWorld.

[brassplayersrock²]

this thread seems familiar

[kurt.physics]

Originally Posted by mduell 

Same thing we expected a month ago.

No reason to wait for MacWorld.

Do you reckon that they wont bring a newer mac book pro out at mac world?

[Big Mac]

So regarding Cantiga and Intel's future direction, what sense does it make to have Intel integrated graphics circuitry when it's not even going to be used in a system like the MBP that uses a dedicated GPU?

[mduell]

Originally Posted by kurt.physics 

Do you reckon that they wont bring a newer mac book pro out at mac world?

Not if they update it between now and MWSF.

Originally Posted by Big Mac 

So regarding Cantiga and Intel's future direction, what sense does it make to have Intel integrated graphics circuitry when it's not even going to be used in a system like the MBP that uses a dedicated GPU?

It sounds almost like you're responding to another thread, because no one has mentioned that here... but yes, it makes sense to have both integrated and discrete graphics in the same system. Use the integrated graphics when you can with the discrete GPU turned off for power savings, and then fire up the discrete GPU when you need it. A few OEMs do this, most notably/commonly Sony.

[Big Mac]

Thank you for the info, mduell.

[Brien]

That's a great idea. I hope Apple can use that to their benefit. I'd love 6+ hours of battery life.

[P]

Both AMD and nVidia have solutions where you either enable both circuits (sort of assymetric SLI/Crossfire) when you're connected to the wall, or just enable the discrete chip if that would be faster. Sounds very much like something Apple'd do, but unless I remember wrongly, it requires a chipset from the GPU manufacturer. Apple has so far only used Intel chipsets.

[mduell]

Originally Posted by P 

Both AMD and nVidia have solutions where you either enable both circuits (sort of assymetric SLI/Crossfire) when you're connected to the wall, or just enable the discrete chip if that would be faster. Sounds very much like something Apple'd do, but unless I remember wrongly, it requires a chipset from the GPU manufacturer. Apple has so far only used Intel chipsets.

Asymmetric SLI/Crossfire does require an nVidia/AMD chipset and I don't see the advantage over a dual GPU non-SLI/Crossfire solution.
The Sony VAIO Z series uses an Intel integrated graphics chipset and an nVidia GPU.