danielmramos Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Lifted from Gizmodo.com, here are the words straight from Steve's mouth. Jobs: Nvidia came to talk to them a few months ago about a product that would include the chipset and the graphics processor. Nvidia GeForce 9400M is the name of the product. This combimes both the Chipset + the GPU, 70% of the die is the GPU. It has 16 parallel graphics cores, pushes 54 Gigaflops and runs up to 5 times faster than Intel Integrated graphics. So, there you have it. Old and busted: intel integrated chipsets New coolness: Nvidia integrated chipsets (starting with the 9400M) So, how long will it take for this to filter to the rest of the line? Probably not long. How will this change the way hackintosh aficionados do their deed? I imagine it will effect the hackintosh community substantially. Is it exciting? You betcha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 That, and hybrid sli. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankOS_Scripting Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 GeForce rules!!!! And Intel must go follow engineer basis hahaha:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Descalzo Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 Is the Hybrid SLI the thing that makes it so I can switch from low-power 9400 to hi-power 9600? Or did I misread something somewhere? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lastowl Posted October 14, 2008 Share Posted October 14, 2008 wasted on 9400, 9600 okay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLiDE FTW!!1 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Well, ties in with the whole notion of Snow Leopard taking advantage of GPU's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m16 Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Why do you guys like GeForce so much? Compared to the Radeon 4000s GeForce cards run like dogs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankOS_Scripting Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 ATI is good in Apple hardware, but still in windows, they sucks nut with their drivers like Catalyst... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysaor Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 Is the Hybrid SLI the thing that makes it so I can switch from low-power 9400 to hi-power 9600? Or did I misread something somewhere? No, thats not Hybrid SLI. OSX doesn't support any kind of SLI. Hybrid SLI combines both dedicated and integrated graphics for better performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielmramos Posted October 15, 2008 Author Share Posted October 15, 2008 Apple's website does not mention anything about hybrid sli. I highly doubt they would fail to toot their own horn if these new Macbooks supported the technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomOSX Posted October 15, 2008 Share Posted October 15, 2008 I think this move to faster graphics for the Macbook series will boost the game market for MAC. Most of Macs selled are Macbooks and with Intel graphics is impossible to get good games ported to the machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Envying Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 It's called nVidia MCP79MXT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 Anybody knows which Ethernet chipset they are using now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
braveskunk Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 i think it's not hybrid sli. i understood the keynote that way: you have 9400m for a start, when you want faster chip, you upgrade(or buy faster MBP with 9600 included) instead of 9400. i think in that case the integrated will be disabled(like like gma in bios) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cavallo Posted October 16, 2008 Share Posted October 16, 2008 I hope is nothing like nforce chip{censored}....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhst2 Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Does this mean that there is a official Apple kext for NForce now? if so does anyone have it to share? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
braveskunk Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 @cavallo- suppose you don't have full support for your nforce? or you just know it's a {censored} one even on windows/linux? i don't have mobo with it so i can't say anything about it, but since apple switched to it-it can't be that bad,don't you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielmramos Posted October 17, 2008 Author Share Posted October 17, 2008 I don't think that the "old" nforce chipsets will be supported by Apple. They really do not have an interest or reason to supply backward compatability; however, I believe the newer chipsets based on MCP79MXT will be supported. We may indeed be buying Nvidia motherboards in the future. This doesn't mean that computability with intel chipsets will suddenly disappear. I think it mean that you will see future support shifted to the latest that Nvidia has to offer as opposed to the latest from intel. Keep you eyes open for future desktop motherboards that are based on the newest Nvidia chipsets. I am sure someone here will give it a go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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