macintox Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 Unfortunally, no Nvidia support by now. May be the last hope will be the new Intel Power Macs... Intel P4 2.8MHz 521 (HT,SSE3) Intel D915GUX motherboard 1 Gb DDR Dual Channel LG DVD/CD-RW Burner HD SATA 80Gb Mac OSX 10.4.4 (video/sound/net working) XBench score: ~66 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10500-the-new-intel-mac-mini-is-gma950-powered/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
phor2zero Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 The 12" PowerPC G4 has Nvidia; Apple has put Nvidia in laptops before. Perhaps the Intel iBook will have Nvidia. In any case, Steve claims that the entire Apple line up will be converted to Intel by the end of the year, so we can certainly hope for Nvidia support by Christmas. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10500-the-new-intel-mac-mini-is-gma950-powered/#findComment-65735 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 Well, if they have nvidia support, it is going to be specced out to 7x00 as the lowest possibility anyway, so I'd not hold my breath. No guarantee of a PMac on 1 April, but it would be nice. I still bet the PMacs ship with ATi x1800 or x1900 anyway. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10500-the-new-intel-mac-mini-is-gma950-powered/#findComment-65740 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macintox Posted February 28, 2006 Author Share Posted February 28, 2006 Maybe, but the actual Power Mac G5 are powered by NVidia. I agree with phor2zero, Apple and NVidia have a long history... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10500-the-new-intel-mac-mini-is-gma950-powered/#findComment-65746 Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfox Posted February 28, 2006 Share Posted February 28, 2006 I'm betting the new iBook is going to be equipped with GMA950 as well. Here's why: 1. To get discrete gfx, Apple wants you to spend the extra $$ for a Macbook. Previously, the iBook wasn't much different than the Powerbook, and its debatable which had better graphics (GF5200 vs. R9550). 2. Intel Core processors cost a lot more than a G4 did. They gotta offset that cost somehow, and using integrated gfx is a good way. 3. The Mac mini used to have dedicated gfx, now it doesn't. And, it costs $100 more than the PPC base model did. Where's the savings from moving to Intel? 4. A chipset with integrated gfx never existed for PPC. If it had, I'm sure Apple would have used it. 5. Its good enough for most users, and many of them probably wouldn't know the difference anyway. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10500-the-new-intel-mac-mini-is-gma950-powered/#findComment-65853 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouch Posted March 1, 2006 Share Posted March 1, 2006 I think skyfox is right on that one - i don't see nvidia's featuring in any of apples portable line up. ATI is ahead of nVidia in the mobile chipset arena - in terms of sales, but about 74% of mobile graphics chips sold last year were integrated chipsets, and with Apple keen to keep intel sweet i think we'll see a few more GMA950 products in the line up. However nVidia could be part of the powermac replacements. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/10500-the-new-intel-mac-mini-is-gma950-powered/#findComment-65901 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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