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Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap
Written By Scrivs on Jul. 22, 2008.
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From the Clip Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap posted by Tyme:
Amid all the chatter about Apple’s fiscal third quarter results, which were strong, most concerns about the future revolve around two words: Gross margins. The big takeaway for technology buyers: Those lower margins hint at cheaper iPods and notebooks in the not-to-distant future.
I'd say that I am going to get a new notebook and possibly desktop within the next 12 months so the next upgrade will be interesting to see since it fits within my timespan. I know not too many people hope for this, but I'm hoping for a decent graphical update in the notebooks to give them a bit more juice than what they currently have.
You can keep the rest of the fancy stuff.
Scrivs
Written Jul. 22, 2008 / Report /
Oh and I'm waiting on what the new iPod Touch brings to the table.
Tyme
Written Jul. 22, 2008 / Report /
I don't understand. I thought Apple was the top of the line when it came to graphics?
RightOn
Written Jul. 22, 2008 / Report /
Apple Computers are used far and wide in the film and design industries... but their selections of graphics processors in their laptops are really lacking.
It's easy to self-upgrade a graphics card on your Mac Pro so that's not too much of a worry... but try to do it on your MacBook Pro.
Tyme
Written Jul. 22, 2008 / Report /
Wow, I had no idea. I thought graphics came top of the line. Learn something new everyday. Thanks :)
Ozone42
Written Jul. 22, 2008 / Report /
That is a rather odd request. That really only applies to gamers, I'd wager.
There's a handful of programs that really take advantage of gpu's outside of gaming, and the number is growing. The apple platform is the only place you get that now, but I know there are linux libraries and drivers in the works, and surely by now there's something on vista that will.
While your graphics card does control the rendering of what's on your screen, even the most basic crap from 4 years ago can quickly render high resolution desktops and apps. Graphics chipsets matter when you're watching highly compressed video for which the driver allows the use of hardware encoding/de-encoding, games, and less than a dozen apps that actually tap into the GPU for image processing.
Also worth mentioning that you can't upgrade your graphics chipset on any laptop or notebook, period.
Scrivs
Written Jul. 22, 2008 / Report /
Yeah it's a selfish gamer request, although the games I would play on the laptop aren't that graphics-intensive, I could play WoW on my iBook. It's just knowing you have power is cool.
Ozone42
Written Jul. 22, 2008 / Report /
As long as whatever comes out can play spore, SCII, and Diablo III at a good res and frame rate, that's all I'll ever need ;-)
Scrivs
Written Jul. 22, 2008 / Report /
Yeah I doubt D3 at decent lvl will run well on those things, probably have to tune it down. And SC2 with unlimited units? Game over.