MCP79 has hardware decoding of h.264. No more worrying about whether your MacBook can play 1080p although my early 2007 MacBook plays 1080p no prob with a GMA 950.
my may 2007 macbook with the gma 950 plays 1080 with no problems either. i can even play games with no issues. the newest civilization works perfetly at full res as does anything from blizzard. i've never had a game run slowly with the graphics chip. the computer actually runs hotter with flash games than games i run from the hard drive (disk utility to partition for games). my sister and i compared cold boots with my macbook and her brand new acer with higher specs. i have a 25 second boot and hers takes 2.5 minutes to even show the desktop (still heavy processing). i think operating system matters more than hardware. until you get really high end hardware at least.
My late 2006 macbook with 950 can't handle any games so I really don't know what you two are talking about. WoW is pretty much the only game that works and I don't even play it. To name a few that I know don't work: C&C Generals, X2, SW: Jedi Academy. HD movies are pretty good but it encounters problems sometimes, and is never flawless.
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How about some hardware-based h.264 in the new Macs? That would get me to upgrade.
MCP79 has hardware decoding of h.264. No more worrying about whether your MacBook can play 1080p although my early 2007 MacBook plays 1080p no prob with a GMA 950.
@sneakz
my may 2007 macbook with the gma 950 plays 1080 with no problems either. i can even play games with no issues. the newest civilization works perfetly at full res as does anything from blizzard. i've never had a game run slowly with the graphics chip. the computer actually runs hotter with flash games than games i run from the hard drive (disk utility to partition for games). my sister and i compared cold boots with my macbook and her brand new acer with higher specs. i have a 25 second boot and hers takes 2.5 minutes to even show the desktop (still heavy processing). i think operating system matters more than hardware. until you get really high end hardware at least.
At SneAKz and V3xx:
My late 2006 macbook with 950 can't handle any games so I really don't know what you two are talking about. WoW is pretty much the only game that works and I don't even play it. To name a few that I know don't work: C&C Generals, X2, SW: Jedi Academy. HD movies are pretty good but it encounters problems sometimes, and is never flawless.
They need to do this, it's not optional. Mac hardware is already a generation behind the Windows OEMs so this is an absolute necessity.