Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 youshi10 at u.washington.edu wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 eculp at encontacto.net wrote:
>
>> Quoting "Kenneth P. Stox" <ken at stox.org>:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 11:40 -0500, eculp at encontacto.net wrote:
>>>> I also had the idea that AMD had purchased a chunk of nvidia
>>>> which made the decision make even more sense to me.
>>> 
>>> AMD bought ATI, not NVidia.
>> 
>> Thanks Kenneth, but now I am confused.  Why would all the AMD64 laptops that 
>> I've been looking at have nvidia video?  Doesn't matter.  I would assume 
>> that xorg would work with ATI, going to double check with HP to confirm 
>> which the laptop has, I know I am not crazy about HP either but at least 
>> they have service where I am.
>> 
>> Thanks again,
>> 
>> ed
>
> Business contracts. HP probably gets ATI cheaper on bulk compared to nVidia.
> The ATI / AMD merge happened in the past 5 months too, so it's not going to 
> affect purchasing for a while I think..
>
> Lenovo (formerly IBM) is still selling ATI card in their laptops even though 
> they do house their hardware with Intel CPUs and chipsets.
>
> -Garrett

ATI <-> nVidia.

-Garrett