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Nvidia pumps hybrid graphics to laptop makers
SONY, FUJITSU Siemens and Benq have announced notebooks using hybrid graphics that allow users to “dynamically switch” between Intel’s Centrino 2 integrated graphics and a discrete Nvidia Geforce GPU.
The switch can be made without the need to reboot, giving the user the choice of whether to burn up the battery in 3D mode, or idly noodle about in 2D on the Interweb.
According to Nvidia, all its Geforce 9M Series GPUs support the hybrid graphics feature, but notebooks have to be specifically designed.
Four firms have joined the bandwagon, after guinea pig Acer tested the water. Sony’s new Vaio Z series, Fujitsu Siemens’ Amilo XI 3650 and Benq Joybook’s S42’s all have the feature.
“Performance when you need it, battery life when you don’t. And no rebooting!” said Nvidia’s chief spinner, Derek Perez, when we asked him about it.
Yes, but does it actually work?
“It’s clear that it is indeed working and in customers hands today,” Perez said. µ
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what is the difference between this and power express?
With one of these notebooks, i can switch to Intel GMA graphics after the nVidia GPU goes defective!
does this thing doesn't burn on the fly?
The best news for the future owners of the not so reliable nvidia graphics card.
Just in case your NVIDIA dies, you can still use your laptop...
Already exists in an ATI variant in Lenovo's Thinkpad T500 - you can select between an HD 3650 or integrated graphics on the fly.
Derek Perez spoke to you after you spied on him over his shoulder and plastered it all over the net? Gotta love the power of a woman.
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It really is surprising that nVidia's dodgy manufacturing processes have slipped away from the headlines so quickly. 

They have shown a blatant disregard for your hard earned cash, and no sign of a recall. Now they are talking about teaming up with Intel?

I have been an nVidia man since the Geforce 2. I have had the 6600GT, 8800GTS, and now sport the 8800GT. I was thinking of SLI'ing another 8800GT up until the latest headline regarding their defective manufacturing processes.

I am a computer supplier amongst other things. If they don't show some accountability I will be moving ATI's way, along with all my customers.
Anyone buying Nvidia products now is calling for trouble. Unless Nvidia comes clean & recall their defective parts and offer lifetime / 5 year world wide guarantee to end users instead of entering into dodgy deals with likes of HP, Dell, Lenovo etc who make sure the laptop works in the one year warranty period by switching on the laptop fan(noisy laptop) permanently in bios. My Aunt had to dump an expensive laptop and I had to waste time backing up/restoring her data. This happened as soon as it ran out of warranty as the nvidia chipset & graphics inside packed up, Even Ebay is full of these cheap, now working but unreliable nvidia chip laptops as punters try to pass the buck (nvidia lemons) to someone else. The UK is in dire need of American style class action law and lawyers who can keep computer companies straight and I will be more than willing to sign the petition.
so nvidia cant make a low power part, and the solution is sleeping with the enemy. Shame on you.
I wonder if clock throtle in Nvidia VGA (minus the hi end > x800) can broke the VGA, how about turn it on and off repeately?
Nvidia should go pump their own butts (if they haven't done so already).

Why don't you save your money and simply by an ATI laptop instead.

Its faster, lower power and will work a week after the warranty runs out with out a bios fix...