Definitely. None of this matte silver border sh*t.
If it's as you say, I'll trade my 15" down to a new 13" and pocket the change.
Quite excited!
You use Adobe software often right? I would hang on to what you have. The fact they take advantage of the CUDA architecture in the GPU means that the Adobe software can offload a lot on to the GPU itself, GPU's now do a lot of general processing as well. Which is much faster than the CPU. These new ones with the intel CPU's and GPU mean they could potentially be quite a bit slower for you. As you lose CUDA support as it's an Nvidia only thing. Unless they put an ATI GPU in the 13" as well. Then direct compute would help out.
Which is why I am surprised Apple are just putting out the Intel 3000 series GPU which is the one integrated into the new CPU's. It is s**t, intel integrated has always been s**t and will likely continue to be s**t for a while yet.
Lack of a discrete GPU to me is a deal breaker as they are used too much now in normal applications to speed up everything. Certain tasks in CS5 take around 1/4 of the time as a result of the GPU.
Good news is QUAD CORE 17"' systems. I think one of those will be getting bought in a month or 2. The 2.2 quad cores turbo boost to 3.3ghz so should match the older i7 dual cores for apps that don't support more than 2 threads.
