the new yonah platform is very exciting technology but looks like intel has gone a step farther for laptops with integrated graphics an acer i was looking at with the new core duo has the intel gma950 graphics and it looks nice
Intel GMA 950 Graphics Core
• 400MHz 256-bit graphics core
• Up to 10.6 GB/sec memory bandwidth
with DDR2 667 MHz system memory
• 1.6 GPixels/sec and 1.6 GTexels/sec fill rate
• 192 MB maximum video memory
• 2048x1536 at 75 Hz maximum resolution
• Dynamic Display Modes for flat-panel, wide-screen and
Digital TV support
• Operating systems supported: Microsoft Windows* XP,
Windows* XP 64-bit, Media Center Edition, Windows
2000; Linux-compatible (Xfree86 source available)
High Performance 3D
• Up to 4 pixels per clock rendering
• Microsoft* DirectX* 9 Hardware Acceleration Features:
Pixel Shader 2, Volumetric Textures, Shadow Maps,
Slope Scale Depth Bias, Two-Sided Stencil
• Microsoft* DirectX* 9 Vertex Shader 3.0 and Transform
and Lighting supported in SW through highly optimized
Processor Specific Geometry Pipeline (PSGP)
• Texture Decompression for DirectX* and OpenGL*
• OpenGL* 1.4 support with ARB extensions
integrated graphics that will play doom3 maybe will have to wait and see
