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gizmodo.com - 10/23/2008

Confirmed: Apple Can Enable Dual GPU and On-the-Fly Switching in MacBook Pro [MacBook Pro]

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Nvidia dropped by today to demo some of the awesome things that the GeForce 9400M in the new MacBooks can do that Intel's integrated graphics just can't touch and discuss a few technical points. Besides confirming that you'll see it in other notebooks soon, they definitively answered some ...

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appleinsider.com - 10/18/2008

Due next from Apple: refreshed 20- and 24-inch iMacs

— appleinsider.com — Assuming last minute snags are avoided, the coming weeks should bring new iMacs, rounding out Apple's 2008... hardware introductions as the company enters the holiday shopping season with one of its strongest product portfolios ever. (more) Due next from Apple: refreshed 20- and 24-inch iMacs

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ryanblock.com - 10/18/2008

New MacBook Pro: now with 20% less battery power

— ryanblock.com — Apple touted some pretty decent battery life numbers at the new MacBook / MacBook Pro press event... this week: up to five hours on the Pro with discrete graphics off, and four hours with it on (both surely assuming ideal low-power conditions). One of ... (more) New MacBook Pro: now with 20% less battery power

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macrumors.com - 10/18/2008

Apple Enabled GPU Hardware Decoding of h.264 on New MacBooks, Pros and Airs?

— macrumors.com — Tonight, forum user MGLXP noticed that playback of 1080p high definition trailers from Apple took far less... CPU time on his new aluminum MacBook (28% CPU) as compared to his old MacBook Pro (100% CPU). Both computers shared the same CPU speed, but th... (more) Apple Enabled GPU Hardware Decoding of h.264 on New ...

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Apple: No 9600M GT capabilities for you!
CrunchGear — Back when we announced ahead of time that Apple was switching to an NVIDIA chipset, you might have taken a look at what was then already suspected of being the new laptops’ GPU. Notice if it promises anything the MacBook Pro doesn’t have? Like say some major selling points like Hybrid SLI and on-the-fly switching between the two GPUs? That’s funny; other laptops can do it! Apple has confirmed that the chipset and GPU are capable of working together, and of switching between modes without logging ...

Nvidia confirms discreet GPU switching and Hybrid SLI can be patched into new MacBooks
Boing Boing Gadgets — ... up with the hardware. Better yet, the chips are also capable of Hybrid SLI, which might lead to a radical increase in gaming performance if Apple gets around to patching it in. Gizmodo ends with a word of caution though: "But since it's Apple it's also entirely possible we'll never see any of this to come to pass—GPU-accelerated video decoding has totally been possible with the 8600M GT in the previous-gen MacBook Pros, and well, you know where that stands." Confirmed: Apple can enable dual GPU and on-the-fly switching in MacBook Pro [Gizmodo] ...

MacBook Graphic Switching is Disabled by Software
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... Perhaps we'll see a software update soon. Perhaps it will be a paid firmware upgrade like the notorious $2 802.11n enabler. Or maybe we'll have to wait for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Our guess would be that the OS might need a significant rejig to support these features -- perhaps applications which rely heavily on the Core Graphics framework would just glitch and crash upon such a switch. But, as ever with Apple, we never know anything for sure until it happens. Confirmed: Apple Can Enable Dual GPU and On-the-Fly Switching in MacBook Pro [Gizmodo] ...