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Apple to use AMD mobile and workstation processors?
It's believed that Apple would use AMD's chips to increase its flexibility and broaden its competitive options. Having an additional source for processors could also be handy. Recent rumors suggest that supply issues with Intel's mobile Core i5 and i7 processors are responsible for delaying a MacBook refresh.
Another major factor is AMD's attractive integrated graphics solutions -- especially considering the chipset licensing feud between Intel and Nvidia. Intel has blocked Nvidia from making chipsets for any Intel processor with an integrated memory controller -- essentially all of the company's latest CPUs.
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IamBD
on April 16, 2010 7:28 PM |
Would cheaper CPU's mean cheaper macs? Somehow I don't think so. Great for AMD though. |
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Timonius
on April 16, 2010 8:30 PM |
nope cheaper cpus means more profit for apple. |
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Tekkaraiden
on April 16, 2010 8:38 PM |
Hmm something to keep an eye on for sure. |
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Guest
on April 17, 2010 3:31 AM |
Apple rubbish may actually then become slightly respectable. :-p |
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Vrmithrax
on April 17, 2010 10:43 AM |
Classic. One of the most anti-competition computer manufacturers is turned off by the anti-competition methods of one of the biggest chipset manufacturers, so they start looking at the competition's chipsets... |
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tengeta
on April 17, 2010 7:28 PM |
Cheaper CPUs might actually raise the price... ha! But seriously, Apple and their users could benefit from this on their low end systems given AMD has a much better trackrecord with battery life. I don't see Intel getting replaced by them anytime soon though. |
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Guest
on April 18, 2010 12:51 AM |
Lol, the only good thing about this is that it'll be easier to implement support for AMD CPUs in future Hackintosh builds. :P |
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SNGX1275
on April 18, 2010 11:05 AM |
Cheaper CPUs might actually raise the price... ha! But seriously, Apple and their users could benefit from this on their low end systems given AMD has a much better trackrecord with battery life. I don't see Intel getting replaced by them anytime soon though. Is that true? I was reading on another site and the general consensus was that AMD CPUs in notebooks is a terrible idea, but maybe that was just in the performance area... They did like the idea of putting AMD processors in the Mac Mini though. |
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Guest
on April 19, 2010 6:39 AM |
AMD cpus aren't that bad at power cosuption. AMD cpus at MAC means only one thing - better integrated graphics perfomance, because. But most real thing is that they're going to use AMD cpus at MAC MINI thing and MAC MINI becomes more cheaper, so everyone could have it. |
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