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Aranince

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ayeying

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Its been done before on a Sony Laptop. You can switch to a more powerful nVidia card or switch to a weaker integrated card to save battery life. Its not something new though.
 

e12a

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how is the video card selected? through a physical switch on the computer? I dont think apple will sacrifice looks for a switch.

a nice concept though. I wouldn't mind having more battery life during class.
 

eXan

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Seems like a waste of space inside the notebook. Knowing Apple, they will use every millimiter to the maximum efficiency.
 

Vanarak19

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all that for what, 30min of battery?

no thanks.


id rather have my 8600 downclock as much as possible while on battery, by then, the difference is probably even less
 

Yixian

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All new ATI cards from the 9650M GT and up come with a built in integrated G 9100 that the computer can switch back and forth using.
 

richard.mac

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the graphics in notebooks are just chips right? although you guys probably already know this and just denote dedicated graphics as "cards". so it wouldnt add that much extra space.
 

bolen

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All new ATI cards from the 9650M GT and up come with a built in integrated G 9100 that the computer can switch back and forth using.


9650M GT and 9100M are both nVidia GPU's.. maybe you ment nVidia and not ATi? :cool:
 

DaveTheGrey

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never heard of such a concept. Interesting. Is a dedicated video card such a power hog compared to integrated graphics card?
 

ayeying

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how is the video card selected? through a physical switch on the computer? I dont think apple will sacrifice looks for a switch.

a nice concept though. I wouldn't mind having more battery life during class.

As funny as it sounds, it is a physical switch. Lemme find that notebook for you.

Edit: Here's an article from 2006 about this feature on a Sony SZ laptop.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/02/02/sony_readies_vaio_sz_series/

It contains a GeForce 7400 and Integrated 950GMA.

Here's a notebookreview.com, Review.

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2862

I knew I wasn't dreaming when I saw this. lol
 
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