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Silicon is here to stay for the foreseeable future, and for a very simple reason. While we have many advanced possibilities with germanium or carbon nano-tubes or other such advanced processes, silicon is still the cheapest by such a magnitude that it wins out in performance per dollar.
Blank CDs were pretty expensive at one point.
Hopefully we see a new MacBook Pro release soon…
Rather Air or something to rival it. Thin, silent, energy efficient.
I expect the 13" MBP to vanish or be turned into an Air with a spinning metal disk and beefier battery and GPU.
I'll be waiting for my nano-microchip in the near future, thank you very much. Enough of this silicon-based stuff!
Are you quoting some really obscure science-fiction story?
BTW, wouldn't a nano-micro-something be a femto-something?
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Rather Air or something to rival it. Thin, silent, energy efficient.
My bet is on the Pro and Air lines converging. There is not much reason for an optical drive anymore in the Pros and, without it, they could be thinner. I expect the 13" MBP to vanish or be turned into an Air with a spinning metal disk and beefier battery and GPU.
I don't think an Air should have a discrete GPU though. Ivy Bridge's IGPU is better and I'd much rather see it being able to stand alone upon that.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Silicon is here to stay for the foreseeable future, and for a very simple reason. While we have many advanced possibilities with germanium or carbon nano-tubes or other such advanced processes, silicon is still the cheapest by such a magnitude that it wins out in performance per dollar.
Blank CDs were pretty expensive at one point.
Why couldn't we have incredible breakthroughs tomorrow? Well, we could, but they've been working on non-silicon tech for at least thirty years now- and we are still using silicon.
I'll be waiting for my nano-microchip in the near future, thank you very much. Enough of this silicon-based stuff!