Decaflon Thread: Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Scrivs — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:32:57

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.

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Ozone42 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:31:48

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 ;-)

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Scrivs — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:30:07

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.

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Ozone42 — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:19:12

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.

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Tyme — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:15:48

Wow, I had no idea. I thought graphics came top of the line. Learn something new everyday. Thanks :)

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

RightOn — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:08:26

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.

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Tyme — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:59:10

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.

I don't understand. I thought Apple was the top of the line when it came to graphics?

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Scrivs — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:36:43

Oh and I'm waiting on what the new iPod Touch brings to the table.

Apple hints at lower prices as iPod, notebook refresh on tap

Scrivs — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:36:25

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.