From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 22:26:43 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 7D8A216A46F for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 22:26:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout7.cac.washington.edu (mxout7.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8405413C622 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 22:26:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from hymn09.u.washington.edu (hymn09.u.washington.edu [140.142.12.183]) by mxout7.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.05) with ESMTP id l55MQNJa010448 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:26:23 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hymn09.u.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l55MQNUj012248; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:26:23 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.55.52.3] by hymn09.u.washington.edu via HTTP; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:26:23 PDT Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:26:23 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: eculp@encontacto.net In-Reply-To: <20070605130654.vwwh16dnkg4s44ck@intranet.encontacto.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-PMX-Version: 5.3.1.294258, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.6.5.150734 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='NO_REAL_NAME 0, __CP_MEDIA_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' 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: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:26:43 -0000 On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 eculp@encontacto.net wrote: > Quoting "Kenneth P. Stox" : > >> On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 11:40 -0500, eculp@encontacto.net wrote: >>> I also had the idea that AMD had purchased a chunk of nvidia >>> which made the decision make even more sense to me. >> >> 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? Doesn't matter. I would assume that > xorg would work with ATI, going to double check with HP to confirm which the > laptop has, I know I am not crazy about HP either but at least they have > service where I am. > > Thanks again, > > ed 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.. Lenovo (formerly IBM) is still selling ATI card in their laptops even though they do house their hardware with Intel CPUs and chipsets. -Garrett