i know it's the power under the hood that matters etc etc, and i might be being a bit of a girl about this, but if i was going to drop over two and a half grand on a laptop, i'd want it to look like something from this side of the millenium at least.
not like some fugly brick from the early nineties.
as for under the hood. even that isn't too impressive...
nothing new here. move along.

It doesn't.

World's first mobile dx10 video card?
You know I could have sworn that Asus recently released the W90V (18.4inch notebook with a Radeon 4870X2 mobile.
And of course Alienware's with their mobile 3870's = all dx10 cards..

Missing the point somewhat here!

While there was a bit of rebranding between 8800M GTX and 9800M GT, these parts (albeit G92) are actually die shrinks (55nm) plus they should be damn faster than the previous gen!

I personally think the 'branding' relfects the step up in performance just as you'd expect it to.

Yeah, checking them out shows that they are all just packed with the old rebranded cards. With the rather lacking 128 shader cores. A real shame since I've been waiting for a decent laptop GPU to program parallel applications on. I guess I'll have to wait *another* generation.

Nvidia are really dropping the ball.

i FULLY agree with OP, Dudler, this is EXACTLY why Nv is respinning their cards... Feckin bastards. ALMOST had me going there for a while, thinking "What the fuck? The GTX280 i huge, how did they squeeze it into a laptop?"

But.. As it turns out, was just the respinned, 9800s, no the 8800s...

Hi Sylvie,

It is not the GTX260/280. It's the 260M/280M. Ppl may think this actually is based on the gt200 design, when it is a 3 yr old tech, based on the G92. The Gtx260M is the old 9800M GTX, just rebagded.

This is exactly why nVidia renamed the old G92's; To confuse ppl into believing it was something new.

Go have a chat with Charlie :) .