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Old February 10, 2010, 12:00 PM
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NVIDIA Corp., today announced NVIDIA Optimus technology, a breakthrough for notebook PCs that chooses the best graphics processor for running a given application and automatically routes the workload to either an NVIDIA discrete GPU or Intel integrated graphics ? delivering great performance while also providing great battery life. ?Consumers no lo... [ Read full article ]
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Old February 10, 2010, 01:31 PM
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Similar to what Apple does with their NVIDIA 9400m and 9600m GT... except crappier?
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Old February 10, 2010, 02:38 PM
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Similar to what Apple does with their NVIDIA 9400m and 9600m GT... except crappier?
Sorry, but how is this crappier? If anything this is way more superior to Apple's product.
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Old February 10, 2010, 04:11 PM
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Similar to what Apple does with their NVIDIA 9400m and 9600m GT... except crappier?
With apple you have to close your apps and log out... then log back in.
This is seamless, 300ms. The screen don't even flicker...the user don't even no its happening so hows it crappier?
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I thought they FiXT that with Snow Leopard... I just thought in terms of using Intel IGP haha
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No its not fixed but I'm sure you'll see optimus used in apples next laptops.
My question is what's taken them so long to come out with this?
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