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Cool, the macbook pro is out, but I noticed it used intergrated graphics just like the mini. What kind of performance does this bring compared to something like a radeon 9800 on a g4 tower?
On the old G4 mini website apple talked about graphics:
"Go ahead, just try to play Halo on a budget PC. Most say they’re good for 2D games only. That’s because an “integrated Intel graphics” chip steals power from the CPU and siphons off memory from system-level RAM. You’d have to buy an extra card to get the graphics performance of Mac mini, and some cheaper PCs don’t even have an open slot to let you add one."
Hmmm...thats odd. I could have sword thats exactly what they are doing now!
Should I buy a budget mac? Everything looks really good exept the graphics power.
On the old G4 mini website apple talked about graphics:
"Go ahead, just try to play Halo on a budget PC. Most say they’re good for 2D games only. That’s because an “integrated Intel graphics” chip steals power from the CPU and siphons off memory from system-level RAM. You’d have to buy an extra card to get the graphics performance of Mac mini, and some cheaper PCs don’t even have an open slot to let you add one."
Hmmm...thats odd. I could have sword thats exactly what they are doing now!
Should I buy a budget mac? Everything looks really good exept the graphics power.