pcper.com — NVIDIA will be releasing the GeForce 9400/9300 chipsets based on the MCP79 design on October 15th, just one day after Apple's announcement. This would agree with my logic that Apple was holding back NVIDIA on releasing anything about the product until after Apple had its chance to show off.
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Closed AccountOct 12, 2008
Why am I being Dugg down? you aren't going to be playing much of anything besides wow or counterstrike you can do the same on the current macbook sure you might get a 15 to 20fps boost but a 8800GT should be the minimum going into laptops these days, for $800 or whatever I can build a decent gaming rid that blows that crap out of the water (not being a laptop of course).
nath2k8Oct 12, 2008
btw, this was a serious question...
holychimpOct 12, 2008
No there aren't. About 99% don't. People don't need 9000 series nVidia cards to play indie games and I don't know of any that had a Mac version first.OS X isn't a gaming OS. Blizzard still codes for both, and EA are using cider to port versions over (with lower performance), but if you want to game on a Mac then Boot Camp really is the only answer, unless you enjoy playing full retail for games that were out on PC last year.
applemacstudOct 13, 2008
This is the type of stuff that just makes me love Apple. Always on top of innovation and way ahead of the competition. MacBooks are going to be a beautiful aluminum color with a much better Nvidia integrated graphics card all running sexy Mac OS X! And did I mention at a possible $800 price tag? Wow, Apple is just awesome.
mrbitchOct 14, 2008
Here is the not-so-scary part : ( extract taken from your provided page link )" NVIDIA assured Apple that Mac computers with these graphics processors were not affected. However, after an Apple-led investigation, Apple has determined that some MacBook Pro computers with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor may be affected. If the NVIDIA graphics processor in your MacBook Pro has failed, or fails within two years of the original date of purchase, a repair will be done free of charge, even if your MacBook Pro is out of warranty. "