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er...Lol (Apple are considering moving away from Intel to AMD)

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Apple are considering moving away from Intel to AMD.

Why does this not surprise me, Apple are always about the money. They over charge for thier products and now they're considering making it cheaper.

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So I'm guessing they gonna let go half of core i5's processing to trade for a Trinity CPU with better graphic capability (huge downgrade on CPU, and moderate upgrade ob GPU) at a lower cost, and then still charge the the same premium (if not higher), and advertising by banging on the "most graphic capable iMac yet" and keep banging how much their old products' iGPU on their old Intel platform sucks and how much faster the new product is to lure the itards/isheep in. Just wait till them go around laughing at everyone that's not using a iMac but a PC using Intel CPU, and bragging how their AMD powered iMac is hundred times better :D
 
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To be honest, I'd love to seem them give ARM a shot.

Not gonna happen, I know. Frankly I couldn't care less. And if it's to give support to AMD because they have a better package for a given application, why not.
 
All the high end iMacs and Mac Mini's use AMD mobility GPU's anyway so the way I see it this is a move in apples favour as it means a iGPU boost across the board and the possibility of giving the high end iMacs a GPU in Xfire with the iGPU.

The odd thing is though unless the early info is way off the mark AMD still are not going to be able to match Intel in CPU performance, so it seems strange to sacrifice processing power to gain iGPU power, when the HD4000 was/is good enough for general use and the problem with Macs and games is an OSX issue not a hardware issue...
 
hang on a minute people, lets not forget that apple and Llano was meant to be a deal, but then apple decided that Amd wouldn't be suitable for their needs.

Amd just can't mass produce in immediate quantity to the scale that Apple require,
Apple will aim to make their own cpus, from either nicking samsung and improving with arm, or waiting for Jim Keller to do his magic at Amd 3years?. In honesty I hate Apple as a corporation even more than Intel. Although Amd needs the money now, they needed the money back when Llano was marketable, so sod Apple let them find their own way

Intel at the moment has problems with their ultrabook, and mobile devices in that they either aren't goodf enough or they are overpriced, half broken, locked to a certain os and not selling
 
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Beerbaron said:
Most of the people that use Macs are generally, 'oh it looks shiny' and have no clue what's inside it
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i tihnk thats the intel ultrabook theory too, but then realised they're paying more for no benefits, to what their current laptop,notebook can do anyway
 
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Since Apple make their own OS it's quite possible for them to modify it to take advantage of the APU, it would be a lot of work however and even then some of the features would still be accelerated by the Intel IGPs.
 
JonSmith said:
Since Apple make their own OS it's quite possible for them to modify it to take advantage of the APU, it would be a lot of work however and even then some of the features would still be accelerated by the Intel IGPs.
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I wouldn't say make, more of a butchered version of UNIX with a GUI :D
 
JonSmith said:
Since Apple make their own OS it's quite possible for them to modify it to take advantage of the APU, it would be a lot of work however and even then some of the features would still be accelerated by the Intel IGPs.
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Apple developed OpenCL. They do seem to want a reasonable level of graphics ability in their products. An example was the MacBook Air which used Core2 CPUs with an Nvdia GPU,until Intel released IB. IIRC,the IGP of the SB was not deemed powerful enough for their purposes.

It is quite possible that they will release a cheaper line of iMac desktop computers.
 
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I bought a first generation iMac G5 at a cost of £1150 and it had a 64mb onboard gpu that could run WoW on lowest settings @20fps. the gaming Rig I could've got for that back in the day.... I was 14 at the time and wanted 'teh shiney'
 
It is a confusing move to make to be honest, I mean macs are good for a few things, Mainly CPU intensive stuff though. The benefits of an APU seem a little misplaced on a Mac. =\
 
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