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[The Duke of URL]

This seems to be the essence of part of the FTC complaint: (muy interesanto)

For those of you paying attention, this is an important change from last year’s models. Intel is now back to supplying both the CPU and chipset in at least some of Apple’s MacBook Pros.

It’s not a victory based on merit alone though. NVIDIA doesn’t have a bus license for Arrandale and thus can’t legally make and sell chipsets for it. Apple wasn’t quite so eager to get rid of its GPU partner however and thus alongside Intel’s two chip solution the new 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pros have a third chip: a discrete NVIDIA GPU.

[Ritz]

What is there to say? Apple indeed found Intel's graphics unsatisfactory and stuck a Nvidia GPU into 100% of the updated MBP line. I don't think that is what Intel was hoping for with Arrandale.