Rumor: Apple to Switch Back to Nvidia for 2012 GPUs

[sundragon]

[citation][nom]alhanelem[/nom]why bother?Macs cant run games[/citation]

Managed to get Civ 5 and Skyrim (medium graphics) to run on my Macbook Air 2011... Proof on Youtube Sorry to burst your bubble

 

[bebangs]

your reading from semiaccurate? yuck!

 

[sundragon]

[citation][nom]gto127[/nom]Nvidia chipsets & graphics have about a 10 times higher failure rate than AMD. I've been repairing PCS for the last 12 years. I keep my equipment for an average of 4 years so I would never consider Nvidia.[/citation]

Do you think it's because they have poor manufacturing or because their Fermi chips tend to run hotter?

 

[waethorn]

[citation][nom]sundragon[/nom]Do you think it's because they have poor manufacturing or because their Fermi chips tend to run hotter?[/citation]

I'd say it's poor manufacturing since they've had quality problems with mobile chips all the way back to the GeForce 6 series. The guy that wrote that mobile chips only last 1-2 years isn't wrong. I know because I used to build laptops with GeForce 6-9 chipsets and GPU's and that lifespan is pretty accurate.

 

[captaincharisma]

Smart guy here ^^^ hmmm... AMD Athlon 64 days... 64bit processor and how long before 64bit computing was optimized? How did this Athlon cpu do?

with how bad they are failing now. the athlon days just make them look like a very bad company that got really lucky