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Killer Mobile Graphics — NVIDIA's GeForce 8800M

Posted by kdawson on from the confluence-of-many-streams dept.

MojoKid writes "Today NVIDIA unveiled the much-anticipated GeForce 8800M series of mobile graphics processors. The GeForce 8800M is powered by the new G92M GPU which is built on a 65nm manufacturing process and shares a lineage with the desktop-bound G92 GPU on which NVIDIA built their GeForce 8800 GT. The 8800M series will come in two flavors, a GTX and a GTS, with different configurations of stream processors, 64 for the GTS model and 96 for the high-end GTX."

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  1. Effects on Battery Life? by SlashdotOgre · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Nice 3D graphics are great, but if I'm buying a mobile PC I'm more concerned about my battery life. The 8800M article mentions, "Power Mizer 7.0 Technology," but the lack of numbers backing it is concerning.

    Although to be fair they're probably targeting 17" "laptops" anyway, and at that size I guess it's fair to say battery life shouldn't be a primary concern (heck if you're carrying it around I'd be more worried about getting a hernia).

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    1. Re:Effects on Battery Life? by futuresheep · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If you're buying a laptop because it has this graphics chip, battery life is secondary to frames per second. The people that are buying these laptops buy them because they're suited for playing games anywhere while plugged in, not traveling and off site work.

  2. Re:Alienware already has two 8800M GTX models by snl2587 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That is, of course, if you really want to pay for Alienware.

  3. Re:iMac by Vskye · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'd agree here. Personally, I'd love a MacBook but I will never buy one until it comes with at least 256MB of dedicated video ram. Are ya reading this Steve? And yes, Nvidia would be a better option.

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  4. Re:Unlikely. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...in a pinch, I can write my own.
     
    That's awesome! So... how many drivers have you written? Or how many drivers do Linux users write, on average?
     
    Users don't write drivers. The Macintosh presents a complete system, which Just Works without someone having to worry about what component is used and what is not used.