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gizmodo.com - 10/23/2008

Confirmed: Apple Can Enable Dual GPU and On-the-Fly Switching in MacBook Pro [MacBook Pro]

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Nvidia dropped by today to demo some of the awesome things that the GeForce 9400M in the new MacBooks can do that Intel's integrated graphics just can't touch and discuss a few technical points. Besides confirming that you'll see it in other notebooks soon, they definitively answered some ...

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eshop.macsales.com - 10/17/2008

Apple MacBook Memory, Apple MacBook Pro Memory; MacBook and MacBook Pro Hard Drive Upgrades - up ...

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youtube.com - 10/27/2008

MacBook Pro Inside & Out (video)

— youtube.com — This is a stop-motion animated take-apart and re-assembly of the new MacBook Pro. (more) MacBook Pro Inside & Out (video)

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computerworld.com - 10/28/2008

Review: Apple takes the MacBook upscale

— computerworld.com — October 28, 2008 (Computerworld) If an Apple iMac married a MacBook Air, what would their offspring look like? A lot like Apple Inc.'s new upscale MacBook. I use the word upscale because even though prices for the newest version of Apple's consumer ... (more) Review: Apple takes the MacBook upscale

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MacBook Graphic Switching is Disabled by Software
Wired: Gadget Lab — ... Perhaps we'll see a software update soon. Perhaps it will be a paid firmware upgrade like the notorious $2 802.11n enabler. Or maybe we'll have to wait for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Our guess would be that the OS might need a significant rejig to support these features -- perhaps applications which rely heavily on the Core Graphics framework would just glitch and crash upon such a switch. But, as ever with Apple, we never know anything for sure until it happens. Confirmed: Apple Can Enable Dual GPU and On-the-Fly Switching in MacBook Pro [Gizmodo] ...

New NVIDIA hardware capable of more than Apple lets on
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... that more is hiding under the hood of the new unibody MacBooks than Apple has disclosed. Now Gizmodo is reporting that the NVIDIA folks have revealed to them that the graphics hardware in the new MacBooks is capable of quite a bit more than Apple has has chosen to use. ...

NVIDIA: Macbook Pro Driver Update Can Enable Dual GPU, 8GB RAM
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — ... little to no announcements. While an argument remains about the benefits of a Hybrid SLI setup, “on-the-fly” switching between GPUs is considered a must by many users. “…being able to switch between the integrated 9400M and discrete 9600M GT on the fly without logging out would obviously be enormously easier than the current setup, and allow for some more creative automatic energy preferences—discrete when plugged in, integrated on battery,” Matt Buchanan explains for Gizmodo. ...

MacBook's GeForce 9400M capable of instant GPU switching
Infinite Loop — ... for the change to take affect. According to NVIDIA, however, the chipset is capable of on-the-fly GPU switching and a lot more. In a demo given to Gizmodo, NVIDIA representatives confirmed that the 9400M chipset used in Apple's latest notebooks is capable of instantly switching from the integrated GPU to an external GPU. Additionally, it can work with two GPUs separately, as is the case currently, or can use both GPUs simultaneously for even greater performance gains. The only requirement now is if Apple to enable the features and get them working with Mac OS X. The ...

NVIDIA: Simultaneous use and seamless switching of MacBook Pro GPUs is possible and at Apple's discretion
MacUser — ... In a posting over at Gizmodo, Matt Buchanan reports that, according to NVIDIA, the two graphics chips used in the new MacBook Pros, the integrated 9400M and dedicated 9600M GT, are quite capable of running together in an SLI setup, a feature that the MacBook Pros do not offer. ...

StrangeCharm - Particle Debris (Week ending Oct 24)
The Mac Observer — ... last week. Back to this week. On Wednesday Gizmodo revealed that there is more going on with the dual graphics units in the new MacBook Pro than Apple has publicized. Why Apple chose implement the new NVIDA GPUs they way they did is currently a mystery, but there’s hope that, at some point, users won’t have to log out to change GPUs. And maybe it’ll end up being a four computational core machine after all. Time will tell. On Thursday, VentureBeat ...