Does that mean it can do 3D HDTV?

And can it run video games pretty well without being a complete ripoff at the cash register?

No, Knightshaver of unders... i did not even bother to "speculate" at WiKi sources. There is no indication of Mobility FireGL being converted to Mobility FirePro. plz do what u do best.

About freaking time. Now I just have to wait and see who puts one in a 18.4" notebook first. I'm not waiting for the yet-again-renamed nVidia 300-series mobile chips. Maybe I'll get something else when they finally release Fermi-based mobile chips in 2011 or 2012. Too bad AMD can't made a mobile CPU to wallop the Core i7, otherwise it'd be a sweet AMD/ATi notebook combo.

Oh, btw HP already has a HD5830 in the new Envy 15". Nice.

If ATI released the XGP this would be unnecessary. Release it already I have been waiting long enough

First, as already mentioned, there is no way you're getting a high-end desktop GPU into a Laptop and they never have. They've all been shrink refreshes that made compromises (still don't have a mobile G80 either). The main difference being that these are new AMD GPUs that deserve a new name, not just a refresh of the same 4770 chip from last generation.

And Mo, the FireGL line changed to the FirePro line, and there are HD4K FirePro GPUs out there M7740 in many mobile workstations, did you even bother to look at your WiKi source which describes it explicitly?

Just be happy there's something new to push mobile graphics forward (and even an external version of this chip for netbooks) otherwise we'd all still be stuck with intel Extreme Graphics and the old mediocre not even as good as the mid-range solutions.

Journalists must bash and thrash whenever AMD releases desktop versions like musrooms (currently DX11). Jurnos must demand on every such occasion Where is Mobile DX11, Where is Mobile DX11 FireGL, Where is integrated DX11. then they used to throw blame on 65nm/90nm and Ooo 40nm is right tech for mobility versions, what now when AMD is end-to-end sub-40nm. AMD complains Intel of CPU giant but AMD should peek into its own collars that upon every gpu generation the Mobile part is coming like after 6 months and in case of FireGL few people would know their exists no 4000 series Mobility FireGL, their is FirePro.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_ATI_graphics_processing_units#Mobility_FireGL.2FFirePro_series
I blame journalists for similar behavior as political journalists do.

Gee Krissy Venden, where else have i seen that final comment you wrote about So Ronery?

and bernard, you're quite off...i suppose ATI and Nvidia should hire you to figure out the way to stuff a 1600sp 5870 into a laptop without dropping clocks to about 120mhz to keep heat in check...so you wondering why they use cut down architectures in their "trickery?" there ya go

920 is a smaller number than 7200 - but which Intel chip is quicker?

Only pure techno-dweebs like us would notice the numbering

90% of users have not got a clue

What ATI and nVidia do might 'not smell right', but it probably doesn't affect most purchase decisions (although the red & green teams would probably love to think it does)

Can I suggest that you go onto Youtube and watch Jen Hsun singing So Ronery in Team America to cheer yourself up?

It seems the 5800 series mobile chips are using the 5700 series desktop architecture. Even though Nvidia is also doing this, this is not an excuse.

AMD/ATI have a clear lead in GPUs. This would have been a good occasion to put an end to that sort of trickery