Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 15:34:34 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: eculp@encontacto.net Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0706051534340.27212@hymn09.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0706051526230.27212@hymn09.u.washington.edu>
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On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 youshi10@u.washington.edu wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 eculp@encontacto.net wrote: > >> Quoting "Kenneth P. Stox" <ken@stox.org>: >> >>> 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 ATI <-> nVidia. -Garrett
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