Top Apple Rumors, Bricks, Low Price, NVIDIA

Vigile writes "With the news that Apple will be releasing new MacBook products on October 14th, speculation has begun on what exactly those new products will be. Tips of a manufacturing process involving lasers and a single 'brick' of aluminum are catching on, as is the idea of a sub-$1000 netbook-type device. More interesting might be the persistent rumors of an NVIDIA chipset adoption that would drastically increase gaming ability, allow MacBooks to improve their support for OpenCL and take advantage of the new Adobe CS4 software with GPU acceleration. Will NVIDIA's ailing chipset business get a shot in the arm next week?"

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Hooray for NVIDIA

[Drakkenmensch]

God knows that gaming graphics is the only reason left why I'm still hanging on to the PC platform...

Re:Hooray for NVIDIA

[spazdor]

<shatner>"For, the, love, of, God, man, use, a, comma!"</shatner>

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LEAK! This year's "ONE MORE THING"

[Anonymous Coward]

Apple will announce that due to the financial crisis, they've been able to purcase Iceland. However, it will be rebranded as iCeland. Steve Jobs was apparently very fond of their homogeneous population.

Re:LEAK! This year's "ONE MORE THING"

[Anonymous Coward]

As part of the deal they're also getting England which will of course be re branded to iNgland.

Re:LEAK! This year's "ONE MORE THING"

[Gewalt]

I don't think I've ever heard Bjork described as "homogenous" before.

Re:LEAK! This year's "ONE MORE THING"

[elrous0]

Geez, get off her back. She's 43 years old. You couldn't expect her to stay impish forever, you know.

Re:LEAK! This year's "ONE MORE THING"

[phatlipmojo]

Homogenic, yes.
Homogenous, no.

Or put another way

[Ukab the Great]

Apple will soon be selling pre-bricked laptops.

Re:Or put another way

[93 Escort Wagon]

Apple will soon be selling pre-bricked laptops.

Ha! Dell's been doing that for years!

Re:I'll buy apple...

[MacColossus]

SNOW Leopard comes out next year. Start saving your pennies. :-) http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/

Re:OpenCL?

[Anonymous Coward]

They're taking a page out of Microsoft's book. Open Chair Launching

A perfect prediction

[ppolitop]

Apple will either release a cheap macbook ($799) with discrete nvidia graphics, aluminum casing made with water-jets and lasers, netbook-sized, featuring an LED backlit screen -with good panel- OR thousands of people on the internet will start writing about how disappointed they are.

Re:I'll buy apple...

[Anonymous Coward]

If you really want an OS that randomly freezes over on you, you should've stuck with Windows ME.

Re:If they sell a laptop for $800...

[argent]

I wish I had your discretionary toy budget.

Re:Mac vs. PC vs. Xbox 360 vs. PS3

[butterflysrage]

same reason I don't go to a gun range... I'm a crappy shot.

To paraphrase Jon Stewart

[spazdor]

If you're defending Apple's hardware reliability by comparing it to Dell's...

"We're in bad shape, fellas."

Re:Mac vs. PC vs. Xbox 360 vs. PS3

[hendrix2k]

One need only follow this simple chart.

Re:I'll buy apple...

[jazuki]

I'll buy apple... ...when leopard freezes over!

SNOW Leopard comes out next year. Start saving your pennies. :-)
http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/

Are you trying to explain the joke? Or announcing you didn't get it? ;)

Whippersnappers!

[Jabbrwokk]

Keyboard AND Mouse? Duke Nukem 3D? That's not old-school! Why you young pups, I remember when mouselook was just a crazy gleam in a programmer's eye. You think aiming sucks with an analog stick? Try using the freaking number pad.

And I remember REAL old-school first person shooters, the ones where we ran around the backyard pointing sticks at each other going "pew pew" and arguing over who got hit first.

I guess I should add "get off my lawn."

Re:Mac vs. PC vs. Xbox 360 vs. PS3

[elrous0]

If by serious you mean "never-ending money pit," then yes, gaming PC's are serious.