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Old April 18, 2010, 08:35 PM
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Apple MacBook Pro MC373LL/A 15.4-Inch Laptop | Daily Break News

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The title of the second article is "Macbook takes on Dell". For $2,200 (the Mac), I think Dell will win.
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"Aside from packing in a 2.66-GHz Core i7 processor, the MacBook Pro can also switch between its integrated and Graphics chips are responsible for processing all images sent to your computer?s display.
Learn Morediscrete graphics chip on the fly, and does so automatically (and invisibly) when the need arises. So, instead of using Nvidia’s Optimus technology, which, as we saw with the Asus UL50Vf ($823.53) and U30Jc-1A, produces the same result, Apple has gone and created its own method, which it says saves even more battery life."(Laptop)
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Apples method actually saves much less battery life. It is impossible to control the switching as it is an OS level control so you can turn the GPU on very easily by accident.
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