[CS-FSLUG] Nvidia Dying?

[David McGlone]

On Saturday 31 October 2009 12:27:36 Fred A. Miller wrote:
> Timothy Butler wrote:
> > On Oct 25, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Ed Hurst wrote:
> >> Personally, I have come to prefer Intel, since even the newest chipsets
> >> are supported by current X.org releases almost as quickly as the
> >> hardware comes out. ATI is somewhat behind that curve.
> >
> >     I suspect there is, but I'd be sad to see it. I am absolutely
> > amazed with the GeForce 9400M chipset and the power efficient punch it
> > packs (which is several orders of magnitude faster than Intel's
> > integrated chips). When Apple went from GMA to the 9400M it made a
> > huge difference on laptop performance while also coinciding with an
> > increase in battery life (admittedly, for all I know to link the 9400M
> > to that battery life improvement may be post hoc).
> >
> >     I've been an ATI guy for years, but ATI doesn't have anything to
> > compete against that line. No one does. I'd really like to see more
> > companies LIKE nVidia that aren't tied to a particular architecture.
> > Since ATI merged with AMD, there have been areas that nVidia really
> > has only had to compete against Intel against.
> >
> >     I'm hoping Larabee will help on the Intel front, but I suppose if
> > it does, that could also kill nVidia...  it would be a sad day. My
> > first 3D accelerator was an nVidia based on the S3 ViRGE...
>
> The only thing that will save nVidia, IMHO, is to replace most if not
> all management from the top down, AND open source ALL of their drivers.

I've always had great success with ATI, and because of this, I never have used 
or owned an nVidia card. 

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Blessings
David M.