Some more Nvidia Details
The initial benchmarks for the new MacBook Pro models are about what you’d expect — they’re good. I haven’t seen any testing done with the 2.8GHz chips, though I imagine those numbers will look even better.
But probably not out-of-the-park better.
Today I saw this post from Engadget, which provides a few answers about the new Nvidia chips, straight from the source. Apparently the new chipsets really are capable of on-the-fly switching, simultaneous processing, and provide support for up to 8GB of RAM.
8GB of RAM. In a notebook. That blows my mind.
It’s up to Apple to write support for these technologies, however, and it’s unclear whether that’s in the cards for the notebooks in the immediate future. It certainly seems possible that those kind of enhancements could be delivered through Software Update, although I can’t recall another time when such a massive performance upgrade was delivered in such a way.
It’s going to be exciting to see what happens here, and whether or not we’re going to see the kind of processing home run we know these machines are (at least on paper) capable of.
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