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

HankScorpio · 5 Oct 2012 at 14:56

Don't think the top end macs which use xeons will switch to AMD though.

elroberto · 5 Oct 2012 at 15:05

HankScorpio said:
Don't think the top end macs which use xeons will switch to AMD though.

There's always Opterons.

Having used both PC's and Macs can I state for the record how much I despise Apple.

JonSmith · 5 Oct 2012 at 15:44

We'll have to see if it fits into their strategy, depending on the price of the 7 inch iPad it might signify a change in direction for Apple to start offering lower cost products alongside their existing range. But it remains to be seen.

mmj_uk · 5 Oct 2012 at 15:59

I can see it now "+£200" to upgrade from an A8 to an A10, I assume this change is all about a higher markup given that it's Apple. :rolleyes:

Yaayuh! · 5 Oct 2012 at 16:08

Hmm, take with a pinch of salt i'd say.
Sounds odd to me given the fact that Thunderbolt is Intel, do they not want to keep Intel on board? I'm sure Intel would rinse them for money on using Thunderbolt.

Though the Thunderbolt trademark was registered by Apple, full rights belong to Intel which subsequently led to the transfer of the registration from Apple to Intel.

smelly_legend · 5 Oct 2012 at 16:08

As long as the keep dpc latencies down they won't have problems shifting to all the audio engineering/dj people. won't really matter what's in it.

Vir · 5 Oct 2012 at 16:17

It's good for AMD but to be honest they need to step up their game CPU wise.

I've always felt that current gen iMac's are pretty weak cpu and gpu wise and I feel Apple are making it even worse by switching to AMD at this point apart from APU ofcourse.

But let's be honest, who's gonna notice, probably only professionals

The rest just buy them because they 'have such a great design' and 'OSX IS MUCH BETTER THAN WINDOWS'. We've all heard those words

What does this mean for us happy enthusiasts? Good news probably as AMD will get lot's of money

Vir · 5 Oct 2012 at 16:18

- double post -

kitch9 · 5 Oct 2012 at 16:52

Marine-RX179 said:
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

I know, why would people want good graphics capability, its beyond me! People wouldn't want a GPU accelerated iTunes either, who would be stupid enough to want fast encoding?

iTards, so stupid.

psychodil · 5 Oct 2012 at 17:08

Im sure this is just Apple throwing their weight around, just trying to scare Intel into keeping their Haswell prices low.

Martini1991 · 5 Oct 2012 at 17:08

psychodil said:
Im sure this is just Apple throwing their weight around, just trying to scare Intel into keeping their Haswell prices low.

So Apple can maintain a super high mark up?

kitch9 said:
I know, why would people want good graphics capability, its beyond me! People wouldn't want a GPU accelerated iTunes either, who would be stupid enough to want fast encoding?

iTards, so stupid.

I like the spin.

You'd just get a Trinity PC a lot cheaper.

kitch9 · 5 Oct 2012 at 19:30

Martini1991 said:
So Apple can maintain a super high mark up?

I like the spin.

You'd just get a Trinity PC a lot cheaper.

iTards generally don't follow your logic... Apple will tell them iTunes will be awesome with turbo boosted encoding and they'll get the cheque book out.

Like I said, iTards are stupid.

HankScorpio · 5 Oct 2012 at 19:43

Our first ever mac with 8 core CPU technology.....

*shutupandtakemymoney*

Yaayuh! · 5 Oct 2012 at 19:57

HankScorpio said:
Our first ever mac with 8 core CPU technology.....

*shutupandtakemymoney*

I've got many Macs at work with 12 cores....

eddyr · 5 Oct 2012 at 20:35

A few things spring to mind.
Most of the people that use mac laptops have the exact same usage scenario's as any other laptop user. So an overall benefit. And *if* they do go AMD, that would be steamroller based APU's.

Secondly, Apple loves misinformation, its one of their marketing tools, it allows for exaggarated speculation and discussion. So who knows whats true.

HankScorpio · 5 Oct 2012 at 20:36

Rossi~ said:
I've got many Macs at work with 12 cores....

They don't have them in the imacs though?

OhEsEcks · 5 Oct 2012 at 21:08

HankScorpio said:
They don't have them in the imacs though?

No. But then you didn't specify iMacs in the originally quoted post. There's been 8 core and 12 core Mac Pros for some time.

Marine-RX179 · 5 Oct 2012 at 21:45

HankScorpio said:
Our first ever mac with 8 core CPU technology.....

*shutupandtakemymoney*

Or "our fastest graphic EVER"

COD performance:

Before with Intel graphic: 15-25fps

Now with AMD graphic: 50-60fps!

mmj_uk · 5 Oct 2012 at 21:49

Didn't Intel Macs already come with Radeons before?

notthemilkybark · 6 Oct 2012 at 17:21

eddyr said:
Apple loves misinformation, its one of their marketing tools, it allows for exaggarated speculation and discussion. So who knows whats true.

They seem to have gotten a LOT worse at it recently- pretty much everything about the iPhone 5 was leaked before launch.

They'll want to put a Retina display in the new Macbook Air; I imagine this is why they're looking at AMD. Intel's graphics wasn't enough to handle it in the Retina Macbook Pro, which is why you can only buy them with NVidia graphics included. But a discrete GPU isn't a good solution for the Macbook Air.