Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Apple MacBooks with Nvidia chips put a threat to Intel inside

Apple has recently unleashed its superior notebooks in the MacBook range; but the most dramatic and challenging issue on the new release is that they have used high-efficiency Nvidia graphic chips to take on the Intel chips. Apple has adopted this revolutionary new GPU for its incredible new Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air. Apple and NVIDIA have worked together to harness the massive parallel processing power of NVIDIA GPUs to deliver a rich visual experience for consumers on the go.

"The NVIDIA GeForce 9400M architecture delivers an ideal combination of visual computing horsepower and energy efficiency in a single, highly-integrated package that we're using to bring a whole new level of graphics performance to our MacBook users," said David Moody, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Mac Product Marketing.

With the great success and huge market response to the new MacBooks released by Apple, it seems that the long monopoly of Intel graphic cards is likely to face a real threat in the coming days. At least, now people will have better option in front of them deciding true value for their money.

A market survey has predicted that the newly introduced Nvidia GeForce 9400M 3D graphic chipsets have the potential to grab at least 20% market share in the Intel CPU-based notebook arena. Apple is not the only one, first one of course, to use Nvidia’s GeForce 9400M chipset in their notebooks, several other global notebook makers such as Acer, Asustek Computer, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard (HP), etc. are also planning seriously to include the dazzling chipset in their products to enhance their graphics capability. MCP79-based notebooks of these celebrated vendors are the immediate products that will use Nvidia GeForce 9400M after the Apple’s MacBook series.

About the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M GPU:-

The NVIDIA GeForce 9400M is a single chip, high performance, highly integrated design that is ideal for notebooks and smaller computing devices. It features 16 parallel processing cores that deliver a whopping 54 GFLOPs of processing power, making it the most powerful integrated GPU on the market today. It also delivers up to 5x faster graphics performance than Intel Centrino 2, and long-lasting battery power, allowing consumers to watch a complete, full-length HD movie on a single charge.

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