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Apple and NVIDIA to split?

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Apple and NVIDIA may be parting company so soon after the two teamed up. There seems to have been an issue in the renegotiations of the partnership after overheating materials in MacBooks led to failures of the GeForce 8400M and 8600M GPUs. That meant that Jobs Inc had to extend the warranty of their units to three years and that’s not the kind of thing that makes any manufacturer happy.

Apple has apparently described NVIDIA’s attitude as arrogant and if the two can’t work it out then we could see the latter’s chips disappear from iMacs almost immediately and from the rest of the range within three to four years.

Seems a bit of a shame given the level of NVIDIA’s technology and the way that Apple has carved itself a niche at the graphics end of the market but the Cupertino crew has always prided itself on quality of product and, when the chips are down, there’s little choice in the matter.

(via Electronista)

Daniel Sung Computers, Laptops / Notebooks

Grab yourself a MacBook bargain

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Did you watch Phil Schiller announcing the new range of MacBooks on Monday and die a little bit inside, knowing that you’ll never be able to afford the latest MacBook?

Well, you may not be able to afford the latest MacBook, but you may well be able to afford one of the slightly older, but still brilliant range.

Apple stores are getting rid of the ‘old’ range by slashing prices of all models. Bargains include:

  • MacBook 13.3-inch, 2GHz, 2GB RAM, 120GB hard drive – was £719 – now £679.
  • MacBook Air, 13-inch, 1.8GHz, 2GB RAM, 128GB SSD – was £1,761 – now £1,299.
  • MacBook Pro, 17-inch, 2.66GHz, 4GB RAM, 320GB hard drive – was £1,949 – now £1,699

These are just three of the models to illustrate the price drops and these quotes were courtesy of the Apple store in Birmingham’s Bullring. Make sure you call ahead to your nearest Apple store first to check availability and prices.

And remember, it doesn’t make you any less of a person to have a slightly older Mac. It just makes you slightly less cool.

Paul Lamkin Laptops / Notebooks