no for leopard. i think it will be earlier. i hope they throw in some blu-ray support in the iMac and macbook pro, but who knows. I would be very happy with an upgrade on both. hopefully the end of this month or september brings us those goodies.
Sep, 12th Paris Expo, along with the Merom MacBook's, 5G iPod's (part2) and the new 2G Nano's (magnesium, colors, and bigger storage). The jury's out on whether both or any of the new iPod's will come with bluetooth.
What's your opinion guys/gals on weather the new MacBook Pro's will have MacBook style keyboards, and/or magnetic latches?
(magnetic latches bending the screen could be easily solved with more than two weaker magnets)
Sep, 12th Paris Expo, along with the Merom MacBook's, 5G iPod's (part2) and the new 2G Nano's (magnesium, colors, and bigger storage). The jury's out on whether both or any of the new iPod's will come with bluetooth.
What's your opinion guys/gals on weather the new MacBook Pro's will have MacBook style keyboards, and/or magnetic latches?
(magnetic latches bending the screen could be easily solved with more than two weaker magnets)
I disagree the MacBooks won't get Merom for a few more months remember Intel and Apple have to get ready the GMA X3000 which will go into the Mac Mini and MacBooks
Quote:
GMA X3000
From Mac Guides
The GMA X3000 is Intel's next Integrated Graphics module for use in the "digital home". It is expected to be put in the next revisions of the Mac mini and MacBook. Currently, the Mac mini and MacBook use the GMA 950.
The GMA X3000 seeks to remedy the 3D performace issues of the GMA 900 and 950 by having full hardware support for modern gaming architecture. Each of the X3000's pipelines are fully programmable and in theory X3000 can target either DirectX 9 or DirectX 10, determined by operating system and device driver.
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What's your opinion guys/gals on weather the new MacBook Pro's will have MacBook style keyboards, and/or magnetic latches?
(magnetic latches bending the screen could be easily solved with more than two weaker magnets)
Sep, 12th Paris Expo, along with the Merom MacBook's, 5G iPod's (part2) and the new 2G Nano's (magnesium, colors, and bigger storage). The jury's out on whether both or any of the new iPod's will come with bluetooth.
What's your opinion guys/gals on weather the new MacBook Pro's will have MacBook style keyboards, and/or magnetic latches?
(magnetic latches bending the screen could be easily solved with more than two weaker magnets)
I disagree the MacBooks won't get Merom for a few more months remember Intel and Apple have to get ready the GMA X3000 which will go into the Mac Mini and MacBooks
GMA X3000
From Mac Guides
The GMA X3000 is Intel's next Integrated Graphics module for use in the "digital home". It is expected to be put in the next revisions of the Mac mini and MacBook. Currently, the Mac mini and MacBook use the GMA 950.
The GMA X3000 seeks to remedy the 3D performace issues of the GMA 900 and 950 by having full hardware support for modern gaming architecture. Each of the X3000's pipelines are fully programmable and in theory X3000 can target either DirectX 9 or DirectX 10, determined by operating system and device driver.
Comparison
*Clock Speed
GMA 950 - 400MHz
GMA X3000 - 667MHz
*T&L
GMA 950 - CPU based
GMA X3000 - Hardware T&L
*Shaders
GMA 950 - Shader Model 2.0 (Pixel Shader 2.0 + Vertex Shader 3.0)
GMA X3000 - Shader Model 3.0 (Pixel + Vertex Shader 3.0) + Shader Model 4.0 w/ updated microcode [1]
*DirectX + OpenGL
GMA 950 - DX 9.0 + OpenGL v1.4
GMA X3000 - DX 9.0c/ DX 10 w/ updated microcode + OpenGL v1.5
*Pipelines
GMA 950 - 4 Pixel + 1 Vertex
GMA X3000 - 8 Unified Pipelines
*VRAM
GMA 950 - 224MB maximum
GMA X3000 - 384MB maximum
http://guides.macrumors.com/GMA_X3000
And I really don't know what Apple will do with the MacBook Pro, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did add a Magnetic latch.