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MacBook Air The Template For Future Notebooks

NVidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has said that in a few years from now almost any notebook shall resemble the present MacBook Air. The latest MacBook Air seems to have become a template for other companies launching their future improved versions of notebooks. Most users of the Air had the same complain that Apple products have a very poor battery life as compared to its competing counterparts and now that has been corrected. Additionally, features like the thinner and lighter model with SSD would be a common feature in all future notebooks.

"You'll have trouble finding one that doesn't look like the MacBook Air," said Huang. "I think the MacBook Air is a good mental image of what a clamshell laptop will look like". "They'll be thin because you won't need any heat pipes, the fan, and extra batteries to lug around," according to Huang. NVidia graphics chips have been used in the MacBook Air and are an integral part of it. NVidia's GeForce 320M graphics processor is the only major logic chip to see a significant upgrade in the Air (Intel's silicon changed very little from second to third-generation).

Huang's "vision" has been based on ARM chips, which NVidia uses within it's Tegra SoC, and believes that customers will "see" Windows running on ARM in 2014. However, even that misses the point. After the announcement that Apple had been developing Mac OS X for Intel processors for years before the public switched to Intel, who would be surprised to learn in 2014 that Apple had also been developing Mac OS X for ARM much before the public switch?

Speculation about what might happen in future is common and interests everyone. Even if one is wrong, it is at least fun to think about. Predicting something like the fact that laptops will get thinner and better in future is something extremely obvious. It is like stating something that people have known over the years and already know that this would happen.

Several rumours are in the air about the latest MacBook Pro, which supposedly shall resemble the MacBook Air. There are questions in the details, of course, such as "Will there still be a SuperDrive or will the Pro line come with a standard hard drive plus a solid-state drive?" But unlike Windows on ARM, you can expect to see the future from Apple in a month or less. Apple website already states "The next generation of MacBooks" implying that the future notebooks might indeed resemble the MacBook Air. Peter Cohen states "other MacBooks seem almost SteamPunk-ish retro with their quaint hard drives" after having used the latest MacBook Air.

It is also being expected that Apple will soon announce that the SuperDrive, which has previously been limited to the Mac mini and the Air (a restriction which has always seemed arbitrary and pointless) is now available for any new Mac, but the MacBook Pros will no longer ship with an optical drive.

All of which is to say that laptop design isn't going to change, it has changed already. Mac users are living in the future of PC users.

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Is my macbook capable of this?

I need to play The Sims 3 when it gets released and need to get BlockLand for my little brother. I will probably have all of the Sims 3 ep's and stuff packs. And yes, I would prefer to play it on high quality as would my brother want to play BlockLand on high quality also. I might have a couple more games like Hunting Unlimited 2009 but not like a serious gamer with 15 games. It also is gonna need to have Logic Express.

Your MacBook will run Sims 3 without a doubt due to the GeForce 9400m graphics. Since it's not out yet, I wouldn't know if that would suffice for high settings.

The MB Pro with its dedicated 9600m GT should run well at the highesst settings.

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