De mannen van Sharky Extreme hebben een kleine preview online gezet over nVidia’s nieuwste kindje, de GeForce2 Go. In de preview worden natuurlijk de specs besproken en vergeleken met de concurrentie in de vorm van de ATi Rage mobile. De mannen van Sharky Extreme verwachten dat de kaart, om dat populair uit te drukken, kont gaat schoppen. Je zal nog wel even moeten wachten op je eerste laptop waar je ‘fatsoenlijk’ op kan gamen, maar in 2001 zullen de eersten voor een prijs van zo’n 3000 dollar van de lopende band afrollen :
NVIDIA has made massive headway against ATI over the past couple of years. ATI has lost plenty of market share and now NVIDIA is going into the mobile market, teamed up with Toshiba, the largest volume maker of notebook computers. ATI isn't likely to sit on their laurels, and they have new mobile parts coming, but NVIDIA is going to do some serious damage with the GeForce2 Go. There is going to be a performance war between NVIDIA and ATI in the notebook graphics chip market and, no matter how it turns out, consumers will be better off for it. The RADEON is a fast chip, faster than the GeForce2 MX, and when it goes mobile, likely a while after the release of the GeForce2 Go, ATI may regain the mobile speed lead.
[...] So there you have it, folks. Hardware T&L and blazing game performance in a mobile chip! The ATI Rage 128 is good, but we don't think it can keep up with the GeForce2 Go. Come Spring 2001, the gamer on the go will have a new weapon.
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