New iMacs and Mac minis to use NVIDIA chips?

I won't buy a new iMac until we see a i7 processor and a desktop video chip. There is enough room in a 24" iMac for that and an accessible hard drive.

Little hope for Apple adding more poerfull graphics than the already in the MCP79 (aka 9400), as also for the firewire port. But I hope they put faster Core 2 processors.

For a new mini connected to my 20in Apple display, a 2GHz or 2.4GHz chip, an eSATA port, 4GB RAM and a decent graphics device with a DVI connection while keeping firewire, superdrive, 10/100/1000 ethernet and four USB ports would make me spend money as long as it was not crippled functionally by some DRM. I'd even buy some more Apple stuff like an Extreme and Time Capsule but I want functionality. Disappointment with Apple's limiting designs turns me off upgrading or spending. I want a Super-mini.

Having seen nvidia's sketchy history in building chipsets for PCs in this area, I'm extremely skeptical of the reliability of their offerings. Chipsets are very complex things, and from experience, I'd say Intel is the only player who can make a bulletproof product.

Fortunately, it is doubtful that nvidia would develop a chipset that supports the workstation-class Xeon processors on the Mac Pro.

I've been waiting for the announcement of nVidia GPUs across the entire Mac line since the release of the new MacBooks/Pros. I can't wait to see the new specs for the iMac and especially the Mini.

What I'm more interested in though is a new Mac Pro with full nVidia chipset and a decent graphics card as standard. I'll be ordering one as soon as they're announced (hopefully) in January.

I hope they are making sure to go high-end and put a G9600M chip in these, not just the G9400M. If they went the less expensive route, the iMacs won't have any graphics performance improvement over the current Radeon HD2600. There would be some graphics improvement for the Mac Mini over the current Intel chipset, but I'd still have trouble justifying a purchase when my G5 can keep up with a G9400M using its 7800GS card.

Am I missing something? iMacs are already available with nVidia and have Firewire, both 400 and 800.

I'm glad I waited, as I was going to go out and buy one a few weeks ago. It makes sense to go with NVIDIA completely, rather than both NVIDIA and ATI.

Should also be a nice graphics boost on the cheaper models of the iMac too!

"The MCP79 is a graphcis chipset ..." Graphics typo. And cool, but i just bought my Unibody Macbook. :)

Definitely !!

But I am worried about the fake Nvidia chips in the Mbps with high lead !!