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Some owners of early-2011 MacBook Pro units complaining of discrete GPU failures

This is the kind of thing that makes you slam your head against the desk a few times. Per AppleInsider and Apple’s Support Communities forum, owners of early-2011 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pros are reporting issues with the discrete AMD graphics processors in their notebooks, which in some cases results in the failure of the […]

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Apple’s OS X 10.8.3 prompts use of discrete GPU in mid-2010 MacBook Pro notebooks

There’s sort of a love/hate relationship with operating system updates, especially given the fact that you never quite know what’s going to change with your Apple hardware and how it performs after the fact. To that end, the mighty Topher Kessler has written a terrific piece over on CNET as to Apple’s latest OS update […]

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Tom’s Hardware runs benchmark tests on Haswell prototype chip, finds modest performance gains for next-gen architecture

Intel’s new Haswell architecture is en route. And its performance gains are about the same as those seen in the move from the Sandy Bridge to Ivy Bridge architectures. A profile of a performance test of a prototype Core i7 Haswell chip by the mighty Tom’s Hardware suggests that it will offer a 7 percent […]

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MacBook Pro Rumor

Rumor: NVIDIA May Bring Changes to Dual Graphics Architecture for Future MacBook Pro Notebooks

Apple may be planning an enhancement to its next-generation MacBook Pros that will allow for automatic switching between integrated and discrete graphics processors based on whichever is the more optimal technology (power consumption vs. performance) at any given time. Per AppleInsider, Apple, which has offered two NVIDIA graphics processors in its 17″ and higher-end 15″ […]