AMD 64 notebooks with PCI-E support: When??

[lekfranc]

Hi, folks,
I'm going to buy a new notebook in march and would like to have NVIDIA Go 6800/6200 or Mobility ATI X600 on it.
I've done a little research and noticed that up to now:
- These GPUs are found only on Intel based notebooks that support PCI Express;
- As far as I'm concerned (correct me if I'm mistaken), the best GPU I can have, powering an AMD 64 notebook, is the Mobility Radeon 9700.

My questions are:
1) Why the lattest mobile GPUs are not available in AGP bus likewise its desktop cousins?
2) When will we have access to AMD notebooks with support to PCI-E?
3) Why there are so few notebooks out there equipped with Mobility Radeon 9800? and why none of them are AMD based notebooks?

Thanks in advance

 

[Jassi]

You can get the 9800 which is based on the x800 in AMD lappys from Ibuypower (I am pretty sure). From what I have heard, the X600 sucks for gaming and so will the 6200, if that is one of your requirements.

 

[IlllI]

ok, a few things:
1. dont be fooled by all those name and numbers

from what i remember, the Radeon 9700m is nothing more than a faster clocked radeon 9600m

and the x600 is nothing more than a pci-e version of the radeon 9600.

needless to say, that gpu is getting a little long in the tooth.


and i think the radeon mobile x800 is nothing more than the pci-e version of the radeon mobility 9800.




your best options are either the nvidia 6800go or the ati 9800m/ and or x800m



good info about the Mobility Radeon X800

GeForce 6800 Go vs. ATI's M28 review

 

[uOpt]

To be fair, PCIe doesn't seem to be available for the Pentium-M either, all I see is desktop P4s.

So the question really is why NVidia is not offering the 6800 Go in AGP.

 

[Pandaren]

The answer to your question is that Pentium M gets a PCIe platform on January 19th (google search for 'Intel Sonoma' for details).

If you live in Japan or Korea you can already buy a Pentium M system with this platform.

Originally posted by: MartinCracauer
To be fair, PCIe doesn't seem to be available for the Pentium-M either, all I see is desktop P4s.

So the question really is why NVidia is not offering the 6800 Go in AGP.

 

[lekfranc]

Hi, folks,

Thanks for your feedback: It changed my perception about the subject.
Regards.