Cnet has posted an article with their take on the recent updates to the MacBook Pro update. The article comments on the recent graphics switching capability that Apple has included in the new lineup. They also note that on the 13 inch MacBook Pro, Apple updated the graphics chip but did not update the Intel CPU. This dovetails nicely with what Nvidia has been preaching for some time now: that many workloads can be offloaded to the graphics chip.

“Incremental [processing] workloads are being driven more by video and graphics and that’s where Nvidia comes into play,” said Ashok Kumar, an analyst at Rodman & Renshaw. Says Bajarin: “Apple is strategically writing software that is able to harness the GPU.”

Nvidia, Intel vie for lead role at Apple @ CNET