ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices, has quietly introduced technology that allows notebooks to seamlessly switch between discrete ATI Mobility Radeon graphics processing unit (GPU) and integrated Intel Graphics and Media Accelerator to boost graphics performance or save power. The tech is available for Intel Centrino 2 laptops that run Microsoft Windows Vista operating system.ATI Switchable Graphics technology is a joint effort between ATI/AMD and Intel Corp. to provide users of Intel Centrino 2 notebooks the best features of various graphics adapters: performance and feature-set of discrete GPU and power-efficiency of integrated graphics processor (IGP). A similar technology was also developed by Intel and Nvidia so that to provide customers a choice of graphics processors.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss...ocid=MIGR-70417
eat that nV !!
Eat that, Skynetfuture !!
Can't stand nvidia's drivers.. they're horrible on vista
Can't stand nvidia's drivers.. they're horrible on vista
Don't know what you are talking about - I am running Vista x64 and Nvidia drivers on a laptop and everything has been fine.
Can't stand nvidia's drivers.. they're horrible on vista
Don't know what you are talking about - I am running Vista x64 and Nvidia drivers on a laptop and everything has been fine.
You're one scenario w. fortunate results
Can't stand nvidia's drivers.. they're horrible on vista
Don't know what you are talking about - I am running Vista x64 and Nvidia drivers on a laptop and everything has been fine.
You're one scenario w. fortunate results
Vista x64 nVIDIA drivers here, not a single problem with them
Can't stand nvidia's drivers.. they're horrible on vista
Don't know what you are talking about - I am running Vista x64 and Nvidia drivers on a laptop and everything has been fine.
You're one scenario w. fortunate results
scenario?
Sort of, except the MBP's use two nVidia solutions.
...AND.... you have to reboot to switch between the two. It's a feature.
Pretty sure thats only because of apples implementation though. Nvidia have said it can easily work without logging out / rebooting.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display..._Notebooks.html (via Google search)
Hint: hover over Xbit Labs
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