From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 6 10:55:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA15416A46C for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:55:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9781D13C4B7 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:55:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0995020AF; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:54:59 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: 0.0/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.0 (2007-05-01) on tim.des.no Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id F075A20A6; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:54:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7E2DE56F7; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 12:55:06 +0200 (CEST) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: youshi10@u.washington.edu References: Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:55:06 +0200 In-Reply-To: (youshi10@u.washington.edu's message of "Tue\, 5 Jun 2007 15\:26\:23 -0700 \(PDT\)") Message-ID: <86lkexl5dh.fsf@dwp.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 10:55:02 -0000 youshi10@u.washington.edu writes: > On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 eculp@encontacto.net wrote: > > Quoting "Kenneth P. Stox" : > > > AMD bought ATI, not NVidia. > > Thanks Kenneth, but now I am confused. Why would all the AMD64 > > laptops that I've been looking at have nvidia video? > Business contracts. HP probably gets ATI cheaper on bulk compared to > nVidia. The ATI / AMD merge happened in the past 5 months too, so > it's not going to affect purchasing for a while I think.. AMD bought ATI last fall, more than five months ago. The reason so many AMD-based laptops have nVidia GPUs is simply that nVidia is by far the largest supplier of AMD-compatible chipsets, and it makes sense to get your GPU from the same source (especially when it's integrated in the chipset). AMD don't make desktop or laptop chipsets themselves. ATI do, but don't have much of a market share. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no