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Nvidia CEO Foresees a Great Year for PC Gaming Laptops (venturebeat.com)
Nvidia has predicted that the year ahead would be a good one for the company, with demand for laptop gaming gear remaining strong. From a report: Looking forward, Huang said it would be a big year for gaming laptops, as Nvidia knows that more than 40 Turing-based gaming laptops (based on the GeForce RTX 2060) are poised to launch during the year. Those laptops use mid-range RTX cards based on graphics processing units (GPUs) using Nvidia's new Turing architecture -- the GeForce RTX graphics cards that can do real-time ray tracing -- that are battery efficient.
Huang acknowledged that visibility is limited. I asked him if cloud gaming would be a disruptive force during the year. But he noted that Nvidia had been providing its own cloud gaming solution, GeForce Now, with relatively little impact on the market for three years. So he said it remains to be seen if cloud gaming and the "Netflix of games" would make an impact on the market. In the meantime, he said that gaming laptops would launch.
Huang acknowledged that visibility is limited. I asked him if cloud gaming would be a disruptive force during the year. But he noted that Nvidia had been providing its own cloud gaming solution, GeForce Now, with relatively little impact on the market for three years. So he said it remains to be seen if cloud gaming and the "Netflix of games" would make an impact on the market. In the meantime, he said that gaming laptops would launch.
I respect the guy's accomplishments and generally appreciate his products (motherfucking useless $700 nV1 notwithstanding) but he must think we're on crack (he's likely too wealthy himself to be a crackhead... per se).
Because people finally got dumb enough to accept not owning games and having all the stuff yanked below their feet when the service goes down?
no earthly support for highly touted sky wall? no further progress until we care for our starving etc.. masses? are the zionazic skinflints calling us all illeagles & penting us up against one another using deception, starvation, color coding, violence etc.. going to lead to the planetary deweaponization advocated by the genuine aliens, (& 99.9*% of us vast majority wandering unchosens), whose legal alien status is yet undetermined in any sane manner? 1 if by sea, 2 if by land, 3 if by graphite solar magnet powered starcar.. instead of running away screaming we can finally smile & wave again? that's the spirit.. hard to not call this a potential blockbuster.. see you there
I used to buy motherboards based on it having an Nvidia chipset. Late Socket 7 AMD use taught me the value of buying by the chipset.
If Nvidia were to start making desktop (or laptop) chipsets again I would very seriously consider buying those first. It worked out well for me during the early Athlon era I believe it was.
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Will be well above msrp, and only go up as the year goes on. Sorry NVIDIA and ATI^^^^HAMD you have set a pricing trend on graphics cards I don't really care for. At this point you can't blame the miners, the manufacturers have had plenty of time to make additional product, and now it feels like price gauging. Good thing my interest in newer games faded long ago. I hope Intel's offering causes a price war because the current players deserve it.
Seriously, I'm a middle aged guy who still enjoys the occasional computer game. I'm primarily a Mac user, which means I'm locked out of running most of the good new titles on that platform. And I really don't play console games much. We have a PS4, but the kids pretty much take it over -- and that's fine with me. I don't really want my gaming on display in the living room on a 60" TV, or want to sit on the couch instead of a computer chair while playing one. And I never got used to the controllers vs a keyboard and mouse combo for a 3D shooter.
So I spent the money and invested in an ASUS ROG Zephyrus with the nVidia 1080 graphics card in it. Does everything I need for gaming, but that thing wasn't cheap! AND, frankly, it feels like it's all made of cheap, flimsy plastic. I tend to just leave it on a small desk in our bedroom, and use an external keyboard, mouse and display with it. So it's holding up ok. But I wouldn't trust it to last more than a couple of years if it was really being carried around all over the place.
But I feel like nVidia and ATI/AMD are both cranking out new GPUs at a quick enough pace so the value of these machines depreciates really rapidly. I doubt I could resell this Zephyrus for anywhere NEAR what I paid, and it's still a pretty new computer. Traditionally, that hasn't been as big an issue for people because if all you're swapping out is a video card in a desktop PC, you can time your upgrades right and probably get into a pattern of spending $500-60 for the latest card, followed by selling your last one to recoup $200-250. Even if you do that annually, you're spending around $250-350 per year to stay on top of things. With a laptop, there's a lot bigger loss involved.
I don't know how these gaming laptops are selling well to the primarily much younger audience? Our 16 year old sure can't afford to buy one himself, and that's a big "ask" for a Christmas or birthday gift.
I really enjoyed my nforce and nforce 2, but I don't think PCs have a chipset in the same way they used to. Hell, even my hard drive is PCIe these days.
Way to fuck over consumers, nVidia. Keep moving those goalposts.
May not be the same way they were, but they still exist. One of my motherboards for instance can do CrossFire but not SLI. That makes sense from AMDs perspective, but another chipset would allow for either.
It's also the chipset that enable Thunderbolt support.
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...says his item is the thing to buy. Film at 11.
Dear Nvidia:
Please make Quadro cards a true, compromise-free superset of your best gaming cards that can, if desired, run gaming-tweaked firmware... or beat some sense into companies like Lenovo and Dell & convince them to NOT blindly force consumers into choosing between EITHER "shit integrated graphics" OR "Quadro that costs $2,000 and sucks for gaming".
For my past two laptop purchases, I've been forced to choose between either sacrificing a good tactile scissor-switch keyboard with pointer stick, settling for integrated graphics that suck, or paying a small fortune for a Quadro card with gaming performance that's only marginally better than a low-end gaming card.
At the very least, grow some balls and declare an official standard for mounting holes & heat-removal (and require manufacturers to both advertise and adhere to it), so we could buy a Thinkpad with the cheapest videocard option, then buy a thirdparty non-Quadro card on our own and stick it in if Lenovo won't sell us one directly.
Yeah, I really like Thinkpads. They have the best laptop keyboards bar none, and are one of the only brands that reliably comes with pointer sticks... but goddamn, I hate the way they're hellbent on always forcing buyers to choose between "Quadro, more expensive Quadro, Ungodly expensive Quadro, or integrated graphics".
I own a lot of company stock, people like to buy our product, we will sell lots of product this year, stock will go up.
Stupid journalists ignoring self interest and self promotion.
I'm not a gamer and do not follow the market for gaming laptops. (I actually do have one gaming laptop, a Lenovo Y50 and it's crap. No more sound, no more SD card slot, housing cracked by hinges and garbage screen to begin with, but I didn't buy it for gaming.)
His statement just seems to have that air of "I really hope this happens because the market for crypto mining has fallen off a cliff."
This guy is a genius :)