Quote Originally Posted by prava View Post
What we are talking about is that this chip will not be a new one and, as such, it will be a castrated GF100. Not all the other mobile chips are castrated, as it doesn't make any kind of sense to use a ~500mm2 to make mobile chips (its a waste). My bet is that this is temporary, until they have GF104 ready for action.
Nobody puts a full blown new desktop GPU in a laptop. But it doesn't mean they are "castrated ", they are Mobile chips that are cut down to save power and heat. They are new chips that are spouse to be like that.

Show me a full blown new desktop GPU that went right into a Mobile GPU, then you are right. Otherwise you don't know what you are talking about,

Quote Originally Posted by Boissez View Post
Nvidia has sunk a lot of money and effort in developping a 512 chip. Not delivering it is a sign of bad planning/execution/design. Believe me, if they could, they would.
Following your logic Nvidia shouldn't have released the G92B 8800GTS back in 2007 (it's not like ATI was a threat at the time) - but they could, so they did.
You are amusing too much. As said, who knows, but maybe they were working on 512 because they thought they would need that much to beat the 5870 at that time. The reality shows that 480 was (and still is) enough for that. Why should they beat 5870 by 30% when 10% gives you the lead? But who knows, maybe they got in trouble too, but that's not important now, what matters now is, the GTX 480 beats the 5870 with good enough margin.