Recent content by klham

I'm in the same boat as you, and looking at some of the same machines. Re the VRAM, the nVidia GT 650M comes with either DDR3 (which Asus is using in some machines) or the much faster and pricier DDR5 (which the MBpro Retina uses). The card reviewers I've read seem to favour the faster VRAM...

Looks like you're right. Btw, I noticed Asus has updated their N56 multimedia line notebooks for Windows 8 but they've actually *lowered* some of the specs - i.e. from nVidia GT 650 M to the non-Kepler GT 635 (with a small price drop). It also inexplicably lost 1 pound. Puzzling.

Will there be a pre-Xmas (mid-November?) spec bump to Ivy Bridge laptop lineups - specifically, I'm watching for the Asus N56VZ and the 15" Apple MB pro Retina. Looking for a good graphic design laptop (with some gaming on the side) and don't want to be blindsided by a sudden update after...