Comments on: Intel comments on chips in new MacBook, Nvidia win

Chipmaker comments on the processors used in the new MacBooks and Apple's use of Nvidia graphics instead of Intel's.

[kheechun]

"Instead of the 65-nanometer Penryn-class chips, Apple has gone with with the more advanced 45-nanometer Montevina processor (in some cases)"

Please note that Penryn processors are 45nm chips, Montevina is just a platform, not a processor. An apple cannot be compared with an orange.

[MaggieRed]

Intel is in fine position with Apple products. It doesn't have to be an all Intel component product, there are lots of equally good graphic chip providers.

In my opinion Intel showed grace and integrity with their comments.

[i_made_this]

I agree that Intel - still, a winner in Apple's line - showed grace and integrity with their comment that they'd work hard to "win back this business." Graceful comments aside, I don't really know what Intel "lost" - Intel's still very much "Inside" every Mac being built with their CPU's. This gives Intel another hardware, product cycle til they're ready to deliver to Apple the "Larrabee solution" - a theoretical date somewhere in the coming 12 to 24 months which Intel more or less shares with AMD's eta for their "Fusion" solution.

Ironically, the only vendor which has been notable in its absence (at least, so far) in the new Apple product line is AMD's very well-received ATI 3000+ and 4000+ series discrete cards. If you go through the ATI full product line pages, you'll see certain of these cards being built for Apple's higher end 3D / CAD / Animation applications - so, I guess, if it's a "serious" card that's required, I guess we have to wait to see if Apple will offer ATI's 3800 series as replacement for the Nvidia's 9000 series (and ATI's next gen 4800 series as replacement for Nvidia's similar next gen 200 series - since neither have been mentioned by Jobs, it's pretty baffling for graphics professionals to stick by Apple - at least, from what Apple has shown and Jobs has touted so far - let's see what they stick in the rest of their high end laptops and the total desktop line). Maybe Jobs can recapture the attention of the graphics professionals who were at one time strictly Apple users because Apple was the only game in town back then. But no longer. As it stands and was further confirmed by this week's mainstream laptop announcement, I gather that Apple has gone to the back of the vendor line for this important market segment..