Originally Posted By: hybrid8
Umm, I'm next to positive that the NVIDIA and ATI/AMD chips on many (other) Mac machines can easily outperform what Intel has in those CPUs.

Actually, no.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-s...3-2100-tested/9

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sandy-...33-5.html

Quick Sync is damn impressive. I know, it's easy to doubt Intel as they have fumbled quite a bit in the past. But their tech is outperforming desktop class GPUs by a decent bit for H.264 encoding on both speed, and for NVidia way ahead in quality. I'd imagine the NVidia 320M (the common GPU/chipset in 2010 Macs) lacked both the performance and power efficiency Apple was looking for. And the 9400M common in 2009 definitely wouldn't make the cut.