Just picked up a Asus laptop with the card in it and 1gb of GDDR3 dedicated, also able to allocate upto 2.5gigs of system ram to it if I wanted to. It runs dx10 games at full settings. Im talking Full scene AA and AF @ 1280x1080p on my samsung LCD tv with the built in HDMI output on the laptop. Its quite impressive for whats the spec's are. Crysis is the only game not capable of running at maximum settings but it runs decent on high settings. Everything else runs at atleast 30-60fps in maximum settings. Got the laptop at bestbuy for about 1100 after tax. Here are the Specs...

Intel® Centrino® 2 processor technology with interrelated Intel® Core™2 Duo processor P7450

Intel® PM45 chipset, 802.11a/b/g/n network connection and extended battery life capability.

4GB PC2-6400 DDR2 memory
For multitasking power; 1066MHz frontside bus, 3MB L2 cache and 2.13GHz processor speed.

Multiformat DVD±RW/CD-RW drive with double-layer support

Records up to 8.5GB of data or 4 hours of video using compatible media; also supports LightScribe direct-disc labels using compatible LightScribe media.

15.6" WXGA widescreen display
With a 1366 x 768 resolution brings your movies and games to life.
Secondary OLED display
Lets you receive notification of instant messages or e-mails during games.

320GB SATA hard drive (7200 rpm)
Provides plenty of storage space and fast read/write times.

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GT graphics
With 1024MB of dedicated GDDR3 graphics memory for powerful graphic performance.

Azalia audio chip with built-in Altec Lansing stereo speakers.

Built-in 1.3-megapixel webcam
Makes it easy to send video mail to family and friends.

Facial recognition security
Uses the built-in webcam and software to help keep your laptop safe.

8-in-1 media reader
Supports Secure Digital, miniSD, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, xD-Picture Card, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Duo and Memory Stick PRO Duo for easy transfer of your digital photos.
1 IEEE 1394 port and 4 high-speed USB 2.0 ports
For fast digital video, audio and data transfer.
Built-in 10Base-T/100Base-TX Ethernet LAN with RJ-45 connector
Ensures easy Internet connectivity.

Weighs 7.7 lbs. and measures 1.6" thin
For portable power.

Built-in gaming sidelights

Deliver an enhanced gaming experience; color-coded keys for gaming.
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition 64-bit operating system
With Service Pack 1 (SP1) preinstalled for a stable operating platform.
Software package included
With Power 4 Gear Extreme, Life-Frame 3, ASUS Direct Console and more.

I don't know why anyone bothers with Nvidia PR anymore. Anyone remember how 3DMark is worthless & how games with special release drivers are the only way to be played...?

In particular, I like the use of an Intel mGPU system with PhysX being compared to an AMD mGPU without. AMD CPUs take a bath regardless of PhysX...

BTW, although Nvidia likes to throw in Photoshop CS4, Picassa, etc, any chance they get in the context of CUDA, they actually have nothing to do with it. They'll run via the standard D3D/OGL APIs...

Is this one of the defect VGA that Charly article about?

Wonder how that'll compare to the 80-core+ derivatives of TeraScale (http://techresearch.intel.com/articles/Tera-Scale/1449.htm). I wonder how much power this 16-core NVIDIA design will swallow. Though, it is an interesting concept. Since gamers typically bottleneck on the CPU and GPU end, so having a specialized unit that focuses on the GPU side and maybe can offload a few other tasks might free the CPU up to do more system related tasks like precaching files and handling network interrupts.

As opposite as Charlie stated.

For blue ray, from anandtech:
http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=3430&p=5

"24 fps Playback: Perfect on NVIDIA

Most movies are recorded at 24 frames per second, however most displays and graphics cards refresh the screen 60 times per second (60Hz). Enter the home theater space and you'll find a number of displays that can properly output a 24 fps signal, but with an HTPC you'll need a video card that can properly output a 24Hz signal. Support for 24 fps playback isn't necessary, but you'll find that without it wide panning shots won't be smooth as the camera moves from one point to the next. The reason is that it's impossible to evenly divide 24 frames into 60, so some frames end up being displayed more than others (the infamous 3:2 pulldown).

On one end of the spectrum we have Intel's G45 which absolutely does not support proper 24p playback. The G45 still does not have official support for it in the drivers and although 24 fps playback is possible in the hardware, we seriously doubt the software group will implement it (that's a dare).

The AMD 780G/790GX results were very choppy at times; even when they seemed smooth we experienced audio sync problems.

The only platform that can properly handle 24 fps output is NVIDIA's GeForce 8200/8300. It just works. "

Hope you understand now.

Is there going to be a 9800 GTX M to supercede the 8800 GTX M?

"Next slide, Nvidia notes the '16 core CUDA processor', which it says can deliver “enough horsepower to drive top DX9 and DX10 enthusiast games – at playable frame rates – with full support for hardware antialiasing and advanced filtering”."

Oh I would loooove to see a DX10 "enthusiast game" with antialiasing and "advanced filtering" on NVIDIA's integrated GPUs... With any luck, at 1280*1024 it might reach 8 FPS.

and the CPU is infinitly faster at running the OS ...

I can find hundred of science projects that will do much better than the GPU, but let s look at real application.

Let's say that you have a mobile player you bought last year ... well, you need to encode it in DivX 5.0 or DivX 6.1. The CPU is infinitly faster than the GPU on this ... 
The CPU is infinitly faster at preparing your MP3s or AACs ...
The CPU is infinitly faster than the GPU at checking your spellling (I need it! a lot!!) in word ... 

The CPU is infinitly faster at Excel too! 
Infinitly faster at sending email ... browsing the web, uploading a video on yourtube, playing the video on youtube ... infinitly faster at check my face book, in 99% of today's usage model, the CPU is infinitly faster than the GPU, it is a proven fact!!!!!! 

Why?

Why infinit? BECAUSE THE GPU CAN T DO IT! it can not even Boot an OS! Linux? anybody? Windows? no? 
I wonder when this ridiculous claims will stop ...

I hope I made you smile!

Francois