I find it strange that Nvidia would bother attempting to introduce this product into the market when they dam well know that laptop manufacturers won't be interested in the offering.. the TI series cards run hot and need some serious active cooling for the most part, but I can't see this part using active cooling. If it does not have active cooling that chip will be hot as hell.
Further power consumption is a massive concern for any manufacturer of laptops. They don't want to see high percentages of their products being returned as a result of the end users running out of power.
While offering faster benchmark scores I don't see this offering as a legitimate mobile product that manufacturers/end users will be that interested in. Also I will point out here that the geforce 4 Ti 4200 Go is nividias only DX8 mobile offering...... why in hells name wouldn't nvidia develop a different core for the mobile arena that is DX8 complient like ATi has? Nvidia need to get a reality check if they think that this particular offering will help them save face.
On the topic of Anand ..... while in the past there has been many instances where he has shown an unjust bias I don't see that so clearly in this *review*/preview.
I am not horribly impressed with this new mobile part from nvidia.... fact is it really isn't a mobile part, it is simply the geforce 4 ti 4200 desktop part with lower voltage as far as I can tell. I wonder how poor the performance disparity between the M9 part and the Geforce 4 ti 4200 Go part with the equivalent power savings? I am willing to bet the M9 part will hammer it. On a positive note (kind of) nvidia must be working on another better mobile part sense it seems they have put so relatively little thought into this one.
Further power consumption is a massive concern for any manufacturer of laptops. They don't want to see high percentages of their products being returned as a result of the end users running out of power.
While offering faster benchmark scores I don't see this offering as a legitimate mobile product that manufacturers/end users will be that interested in. Also I will point out here that the geforce 4 Ti 4200 Go is nividias only DX8 mobile offering...... why in hells name wouldn't nvidia develop a different core for the mobile arena that is DX8 complient like ATi has? Nvidia need to get a reality check if they think that this particular offering will help them save face.
On the topic of Anand ..... while in the past there has been many instances where he has shown an unjust bias I don't see that so clearly in this *review*/preview.
I am not horribly impressed with this new mobile part from nvidia.... fact is it really isn't a mobile part, it is simply the geforce 4 ti 4200 desktop part with lower voltage as far as I can tell. I wonder how poor the performance disparity between the M9 part and the Geforce 4 ti 4200 Go part with the equivalent power savings? I am willing to bet the M9 part will hammer it. On a positive note (kind of) nvidia must be working on another better mobile part sense it seems they have put so relatively little thought into this one.
