MacRumors reports NVIDIA graphics may be in next MacBook Pro

[Derek Andonian]

The only downside is, they’re pretty much going to be glorified MacBook Airs.

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“THAT’S our fail-safe point. Up until here, we still have enough track to stop the locomotive before it plunges into the ravine… But after this windmill it’s the future or bust.”

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Greg Andonian] “The only downside is, they’re pretty much going to be glorified MacBook Airs.”

Why, because they won’t have a DVD drive?

If the specs hold up to the rumors, they are way different than an air.

[Rick Lang]

Looks like we shall know all the details in about four weeks although not sure of the release date of course. Could be mid-June. And the benchmarks will tell the performance story shortly after that.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Gary Huff]

[Greg Andonian] “The only downside is, they’re pretty much going to be glorified MacBook Airs.”

So? A MacBook Air with an Ivy Bridge i7 and a NVIDIA 600M series GPU isn’t anything to sneeze at. First, all you lose is an outdated DVD drive (I would prefer to have a smaller form factor and use my own external Blu-ray since I use that format for archiving). The only possible problem is that you wouldn’t have a second bay for those people who love their data-doubler setup from OWC.

I’m more worried that there won’t be a 17″ version. If I can get a 17″ Ivy Bridge with USB3 and ExpressCard, I will be supremely happy.

[Eric Santiago]

I will trade any 17″ model option if they offer a Retina 30″ with 4k and up res 😉

[Rick Lang]

Eric Santiago:
“I will trade any 17″ model option if they offer a Retina 30″ with 4k and up res ;)”

Of course there are also rumors now about a new retina iMac so not sure you’ll see 30″ but you may see that on a 27″. Amazing year in store in terms of desktop/laptops.

Rick Lang

iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Rick Lang] “Of course there are also rumors now about a new retina iMac so not sure you’ll see 30″ but you may see that on a 27″. Amazing year in store in terms of desktop/laptops.”

So, let me get this sort of straight.

A retina display, doubles the amount of pixels, therefore effectively increases resolution, but does this in the same amount of screen real estate?

How bad did I screw that up?

[Jason Jenkins]

[Rick Lang] “Of course there are also rumors now about a new retina iMac”

Matte screen option?

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[Bret Williams]

Quadruples. Each pixel becomes a 4 pixel grid. But the x and y are each double. If something is vector, like text, then it looks sharper. If something is bitmap, at the old resolution, then it’s being blown up 200% essentially to remain the same physical size. So it does’t look any better or different, but if a bitmap item has more resolution to draw on, it looks pretty amazing.

However, I hear from the rumor that they don’t actually have the ability to quadruple it yet, so you’d actually be looking at LESS real estate, on the same size screen, with higher resolution.

It’s neat on the iPad. Text is amazingly sharp. You can’t see any pixels. It would be great for working in print graphics for sure. But I’m not sure what it does for our business, since we’re not usually working in retina resolutions.

[Andrew Richards]

[Jeremy Garchow] “A retina display, doubles the amount of pixels, therefore effectively increases resolution, but does this in the same amount of screen real estate?”

That has been how they’ve managed it on the iPhone and iPad. It is doubling the pixels on both the X and Y axes, so it is really a quadrupling of pixels. The way Apple defines “Retina Display” they need to be at a fine enough resolution that the human eye cannot discern individual pixels at typical viewing distances. This means inches for iPhones and feet for iMacs.

I fear the early going with Retina Macs will yield a lot of ugly-looking legacy software and web content. You’ll have the crisp OS X Retina HiDPI UI elements juxtaposed against suddenly muddy 72dpi everything else. Might be ugly in practice.

Best,
Andy