

ATI keeps punching, but when will Nvidia fight back?













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RE: Ati fanboy
By weskurtz0081 on 11/18/2009 10:22:10 AM , Rating: 2
I have been gaming on an AMD card in my 15.4" notebook for a while, as a matter of fact, it's a 3 year old notebook. So, what exactly can't you play on 15.4" notebook using a 4650? Just curious.

RE: Ati fanboy
By HotFoot on 11/18/2009 12:03:13 PM , Rating: 2
If a mobile 4650 is enough to satisfy your gaming needs/wants, then discussion of 5870 - 5970 class hardware is just completely irrelevant.

For my mobile gaming, I accept that I play at lower settings than while I'm at home. But the OP doesn't accept this and wants the best experience for mobile computing.

My disagreement with the OP would be looking at where the market is. Yes, laptops and other mobile computer form factors are taking over the market by and large, but I'm certain desktops or shuttle is still where the majority of top-dollar gaming hardware is bought and desired. Something like the 5970 just isn't going to work in a mobile form factor. It's just physics, at this point - a 300 Watt card cannot be integrated into a 15.4" notebook.

What I really wish would come back was the idea of having an external enclosure to house a desktop graphics card. There were a couple of these shown around a few years back, but I never saw one for sale. If I could get my hands on something like that, I could use a very lightweight and efficient IGP-based notebook with great battery life, and hook it up with whatever video card just came out of my desktop from my last upgrade cycle. That would be a great option for me.

RE: Ati fanboy
By weskurtz0081 on 11/18/2009 12:11:47 PM , Rating: 2
What are you talking about?

I am specifically asking what he is doing on a 15.4" notebook gaming wise that a 4650 can't handle. Show me a 15.4" notebook with a GTX 280M in it.

The guy I was responding to was acting like he had to have a GTX 280M and that AMD doesn't have anything to go against it, which they do. The problem is, he is talking about his gaming needs and his 15.4" notebook, which you will not find a GTX 280M in a 15.4" notebook, the screen resolution is smaller, and you can push game much easier on smaller screens.

If the OP wanted the best experience for mobile computing, he wouldn't be using a 15.4" notebook, and he wouldn't have bothered bringing up the GTX280 M which he can't even get in that small of a notebook.

Does that make more sense?

RE: Ati fanboy
By FITCamaro on 11/18/2009 2:06:01 PM , Rating: 2
Isn't the 280M just a 9800GTX-M anyway?

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RE: Ati fanboy
By Scabies on 11/19/2009 2:41:27 AM , Rating: 2
Does that make more sense?

The necessity of a nuclear powered laptop will never make sense. The consumer should always accept that with a decrease in size (/increase in portability) comes the trade-off of lower performance.

