Rumor: Nvidia-powered MacBooks on October 14th

Pulling back from the details of an inevitable upgrade to the line of portables at some point, I am just curious about the whole October 14 date that keeps getting thrown out. To the best of my knowledge, it was first put out there by John Gruber on Daring Fireball right after the September iPod event and has been widely thought of as The Date since then. But is anyone aware if that date has come out of any other source? Or is it all this speculation and anticipation based on this one line that Gruber put out there? I don't necessarily doubt him--although his strength is as a thoughtful commentator on Apple matters rather than rumour speculation--I am just curious if any other source has corroborated October 14 as the big day?

I just set up a prediction market for whether new notebooks will come out on Oct 14. It lets us all vote and aggregate our opinions into one guess. Here's the link:

http://www.intrade.net/market/detail/?contractId=313685

Go vote!

Hope the new MacBook's support Call of Duty 4 Mac. My old book got broken and now waiting for new release to buy...

I don't think that there is going to be as sharp of a line between the MacBook and MacBook pros if and when these new ones come out. If the MacBooks end up with acceptable video processing it will be more like the option for how much power how much screensize do you want rather than well do you want portability or power.

True but what a lot of people are looking forward to is going into bootcamp to take advantage of the card.

I spend a lot of time on the road away from my gaming desktop and consoles. Before bootcamp, gaming on the mac was wow and civ iv and that was about it for me. Booting to windows has been pretty nice post-intel chips. And Steam is a godsend.

It's encouraging to see that Apple still likes Nvidia after the bad GPUs fiasco. I think the industry needs Nvidia and kind of closed ranks around them. I have a new MBP with the Nvidia 86XXX chip in there. I guess as long as Apple honors the warranty, as Dell and HP have done, and as long as I am religious about backing up the disk image, I'll go along too. I'm buying Apple Care just to make sure.

I purchased the MBP because I needed a dedicated video card for some applications / games. Being an iBook user, I was really disappointed that the intel line (macbooks) had a shared card. I know many users that didn't purchased a macbook because of the video card but they didn't get the macbook pro because of the price... I think Apple's consumer notebook line needs a major upgrade and I'd say a speed bump only for the pro one.

I was scrwed!!!! I got my new macbook abot two weeks ago due to my macbook pro breaking ;( this sucks so so so much..

There is no way Apple would make the MacBook with a better/more powerful video card than the MacBookPro or MacBookAir!

Having a *powerful* GPU is great and all, but the fact is Direct X is the dominate Graphics API right now. OpenGL? It's old and dated, and nobody wants to use it for games. Until OpenGL breaks away from legacy CAD support and morphs into a quality graphics API, most AAA titles like HL2, TF2, GoW, [insert most any new game here], will stay DX only.

Macbook Pro with a 8800 is great and all, but if you can only play a handful of new games on it, what's the point?