Comments on: New MacBook Airs are coming. Here is why

By: Lenzfire

Lenzfire — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:51:03 +0000

I don know why,but apple don’t give their fans a choice of nvidia GPU

By: JT

JT — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:26:42 +0000

MBA is their premium product line. It should be better than the MBP starter models!!

By: micmii

micmii — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:19:58 +0000

Looks awesome, I just can’t believe nobody seems excited about PC’s anymore, even the Apple faithful.

These will not have dedicated GPU’s, sandybridge is great for everything except games.

By: wondercomp

wondercomp — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:34:16 +0000

I don’t think Apple will be putting AMD Graphics into the new Macbook Airs for one reason — The fact that the 13 inch Macbook Pros use Intel graphics chips.

Apple wouldn’t want to cannibalize their MBP bottom line, which certainly is a possibility with dedicated GPUs in the MBA. :/

By: Levi

Levi — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:44:00 +0000

My suspicion is that only the 11 inch Macbook Airs will use the processors you listed. The 13 inch version will probably use the 2629M (2.1GHz) or 2649M (2.3GHz) 25W TDP i7s. (There is no i5 at this energy usage level.) Today, the 11″ uses the ULV variant of Core2Duo while the 13″ uses the LV. If you take out the ~12 W TDP of the Chipset in the current system, Apple still saves with Intel. And there is no maketing issue with explaining why they went from 1.86/2.13GHz to 1.7/1.8GHz. But I could be wrong and both machines could be switching to ULV. Then expect AWESOME battery life from the 13″ :) I am cool with it either way.

And I do not think there is a systematic purging of NVidia going on. Apple is forced to ditch them for chipset. For GPU there has been a back and forth between NVidia and AMD for several years now. I suspect it is just a phase. Apple will use the best GPU it can get well into the future.

Please God (~Jobs) give me 4GB base/8GB upgradable, i7 and backlit keyboard. Please give this to me in the base model and I’ll be perfectly happy :)

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:44:51 +0000

Apple is building a lot of pent up demand for new MB airs and minis. When the new ones are released,they will all have Lion installed and pad the early adoption numbers.

Apple may also be doing the same thing with iCloud. My daughter dropped Mobile Me in April , but the account is still active and, presumably, will be transferred to iCloud this fall.