My personal speculation is that it is do with the current lack-of-performance currently in Intel GPUs. Intel’s current i3 two chip performance is not as enticin

My personal speculation is that it is do with the current lack-of-performance currently in Intel GPUs. Intel’s current i3 two chip performance is not as enticing graphically as the Nvidia’s two chip solution with a Core 2 Duo processor. I think a better question is why does Apple keep insisting on a Nvidia or AMD GPU in their current products? It’s a question that Anand Lal Shimpi has asked as well: “Apple is up to something. For the past 1.5 years every single Mac has shipped with some form of NVIDIA graphics, standard, regardless of price. These are all G9x based GPUs with full support for OpenCL. From the looks of it, Apple is trying to broaden its install base of OpenCL compliant machines. In preparation for what I'm not really sure, but something is coming.“ (http://www.anandtech.com/show/3762/apples-13inch-macbook-pro-early-2010-reviewed-shaking-the-cpugpu-balance/2 http://www.anandtech.com/show/3762/apples-13inch-macbook-pro...)