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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?"
For some of us who dual boot linux on Apple hardware, switching to NVidia isn't a positive development!
Apple doesn't WANT to play in the cutthroat competitive part of the market. They're quite happy taking the premium customers and leaving the "I want it as cheap as dirt no matter what" market to Dell et al. Which is smart: Apple is not a supply-chain-efficiency-trumps-all company like Dell / Walmart.
The Brick rumors are all bs. Why pundits feel the need to connect brick to anything is beyond silly.
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