laptops for TANE

[johnwhelan]

If you are thinking of buying I suggest you hold off until AMD produce their next GPU chip which should be out in a week or two. They have changed the way that memory is connected to the GPU which has been a traditional bottleneck. The most important thing for laptops is that the power requirement for the memory is only a third of the traditional method which means less heat etc which has always been a problem. nVidia are expected to have something similar in a year's time. So if TANE runs well on the new AMD GPUs then TANE on lap tops becomes feasible. Note TANE may still have some code that optimises performance on nVidia GPUs so this may not help.

Cheerio John

 

[JCitron]

Intel too has been working on, or has come out with another method as well with far better graphics support than the old chipset. The mobile hardware has made great strides in this area and is a good thing considering many people are playing more graphics intensive games than Solitaire during the travels.

The biggest issue will still be heat with this hardware. Let's hope many of these changes will help in this area as well, which as you know is deadly to computer hardware.

John