"The other statement that doesn't parse is that consumers want discrete graphics and that is what Intel is going to ship first. Well, consumer buying patterns show about 70 per cent of laptops sold have integrated GPUs"

Because integrated is the vast majority within laptops. Discrete even appearing was just a rising trend a year ago. The i945 in the Centrino platform counts for the majority and pretty much skews the numbers. Discrete is prefered if you can find them. So smoke what ya got because it must GIVE ya glacoma.