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New mobility 9700 for Powerbook?

psycho bob

psycho bob

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Oct 25, 2003
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January saw the launch of ATI's new mobile chip the 9700 (not based on the desktop chip of the same name). Early PC tests suggest this is on a par with desktop chips, is comfortably beats both desktop (128mb) and mobile (64mb) 9600 cards.
It has excellent battery saving features, the best on a graphics card to date. Surely in the short term this must be the Powerbooks next upgrade step.
 
spercharged69

spercharged69

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Jul 10, 2003
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They better include the best ATI mobile chipset out at the time, or it will be very disappointing again for Apple. My company bought me a PC Laptop (which is a huge piece of crap compared to my PowerBook of course) about 2 months before they speed-bumped the PowerBooks, and it had a better graphics card in it. (M10 Pro which is the 9600 PRO 128MB instead of the 64MB non-pro card in all the Powerbooks.)

ESPECIALLY with so many people hyped for Worlds of Warcraft... more GPU power is needed!
 
StealthRider

StealthRider

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Jan 23, 2002
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Here and there!
Hope that they don't do the same thing they did with the first PB 17"inchers and drop the GPU to a lower level. Radeon 9000 to GeForce Mx440 was a BAD idea.
 
slipper

slipper

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Nov 19, 2003
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Originally posted by io_burn
They better include the best ATI mobile chipset out at the time, or it will be very disappointing again for Apple.
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that'll be nice but hope your not counting on it.
 
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