Q4 2007 GPU shipments

[ghost101]

right and you probably bought it because it had the marketing centrino label... as additional value

now let me choose, decent mobile graphic card or 5min less battery time out of my already 5-6hrs available with wuxga resolution... hmm difficult choice

Of course lets avoid countering any of my points and pretend that im a slave to intel marketing. if you genuinely believe that a discrete graphics card only saves you 5 mins out of a laptop with a 5 hour battery life, you are deluded. In addition, a mobile graphics card costs more adding $50 onto the cost of a laptop.

Let me count how many games ive actually played on my laptop......well i suppose theres solitaire. I also dont know what youd expect to play with an 8400gs if you went for it. Anything else and it starts to add substantially to the cost of the laptop which puts it inot the DTR category.

As for the centrino comment, i have no idea why youd even mention it.

Theres also the weight factor. It adds unnecessary weight.

Finally, if people buy intel on board graphics, it doesnt make them idiots. if ATI/nvidia discrete graphics were really needed in large quantities market forces would introduce them in larger quantities. HP/Dell/Lenovo would all try to outdo each other by introducing them. However, clearly, if the market doesnt align with what you believe, people are idiots. You sir are the ignoramus.