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@ Red Rooster by: tony v on 2/16/2010
Your definition of moderate gaming must be laughable. This is a great technology that will give consumers more choices to make when purchasing a laptop and since AMD makes chipsets and discrete graphics, there is no excuse they don't have this tech on their hardware.

And your comments about "self respecting pc gamers" are ignorant and naive. I've got a gaming desktop pc and a "moderate" gaming laptop pc - which doesn't have anywhere close to the processor yours has but I guarantee it runs games a whole lot better and probably cost about the same price as yours.

Your fanboyim is the heart of everything that is wrong with the average consumer.
Red Rooster? by: Anonymous on 2/16/2010
The reason why you’re not seeing AMD/ATI fans, like myself, flaming this story is because we’re not impressed by Optimus. While it may be an innovation in switching discrete and IGP graphics, it’s too little...too late. A blind man can see this is a pathetic attempt by NVidia to piggy back off the success of Intel’s huge market share in the IGP arena, and since NVidia is effectively barred from making chipsets for Nehalem architecture, they created Optimus to sneak in through the back door. But I predict “it’s not going to work.” As a recent purchaser of an Intel i5 equipped laptop (yes, I said Intel, I know a dam good deal when I see one) the integrated graphics are more than enough for everyday use, 1080p blu ray playback, and light to moderate gaming, hyper=threading and turbo boost in the $500 price point. So why anyone would fork over $750-$800+ for an Optimus equipped laptop? The only segment of buyers interested in high end gaming performance on a laptop is gamers, and no self-respecting gamer would buy a laptop as his primary gaming rig…so where does Optimus fit in? It doesn’t. So you see good Sir, there’s no need to us AMD/ATI fans to rage about Optimus because we can spot an “Epic Fail” when we see it. Now LOL on that, and BTW Where’s Fermi?
LOL where's the red roosters ? by: Anonymous on 2/15/2010
I can't believe this page isn't spammed with shrieking red fanbois...
You know, for years I've had them screaming at me that ATI is THE forward leaning technology company and the only one that makes any breakthroughs whatsoever...
Gee, I guess DDR5 made them all wet their pants. (recently they haven't been to enthusiastic about DDR5 red cards with 128 bit buses, but of course still filled with excuses, cover-ups, and minimizations).
So, Nvidia has the Open-CL the red roosters screamed about ramped up and being implemented with a demo deal they presented Apple, a good score of it in their Nvidia drivers already, while ati lags in defeat unable to pay programmers to do it...
Now we have another thing the red roosters would love - as ati tried jamming it's way into portables with a new series of graphics implementations, Nvidia has once again swung it's gigantic ax down on their red rooster necks with Optimus ! LOL
Nighty night sweet chicken reds, sleep well prince of monetary losses.
RE: by: Theo Valich on 2/14/2010
According to nVidia, they should have DirectX 11-enabled notebooks this year.

Ed.
by: tony v on 2/14/2010
That is great news. Hopefully we'll see adpotion across the spectrum for all laptops that have discrete nvidia gpu's.

Did you ask when they'll have optimus enabled dx11 laptops? :)
RE: Tony V by: Theo Valich on 2/13/2010
I asked just that - and the answer should be on Newegg on Monday.

I was told that Optimus enabled notebook vendors to get rid of MUX'es, and now the price of notebooks is actually lower. ASUS UL50VT (no Optimus) launched at $849, and is available for $799 at some e-tailers. UL50 without discrete graphics launched at $799 and now sells for $749.99.

UL50VF with Optimus is launching for $799, but e-tailers should be able to drive the price down even further.

Long story short - nVidia or OEM/ODMs no longer have to pay hefty money for MUXes and can take the cost of one MUX as a pay-off for Optimus and reduce the price. So long story short - Optimus notebooks will cost even less money than the non-Optimus ones.

Ed.
by: tony v on 2/13/2010
Will latops stay the same price for an optimus-powered laptop vs. one without optimus but with the same discrete gpu or will the optimus enabled have a higher/lower price?
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