Comments on: Intel's chipset road map lacks a driver

An attempt by Intel to improve the performance of basic graphics technology has been stalled by software development delays.

[mjm01010101]

same article on both pages

More fine Cnet reporting/editing.

[Zoe Slocum]

Fixed

Sorry about that. We are working to resolve a technical glitch regarding multipage stories.

[inachu]

this is bad

once on board video is upgraded then the motherboards will run hotter & hotter.

[weegg]

Blame MS

Their incompetence in defining drivers and interfaces (unless they
copy from already existing standards and then muck it up).

[sqlman2000]

And who really gives a crap?

Anyone that even mildly cares about graphics performance would buy something with a dedicated graphics card. Another excellent non-story.

[anarchyreigns]

Another stupid comment!

"Anyone that even mildly cares about graphics performance would buy something with a dedicated graphics card."

Wrong. Not in laptops. Integrated graphics in laptops use significantly less battery life than do discrete graphic card.

[xxdd7311]

perhaps Intel is to blame for duo page mix up!

give Cnet a break, every body makes mistake. Overall their reporting is excellent. Kudos to CNET for getting things 99.9 percent right!

[sal-magnone]

Blame VISTA

Blame VISTA. If VISTA hadn't been announced just two weeks before it was released INTEL would have been on time - yeah ...

[jesmac418]

Intel's graphics

I am really surprised that Intel has dragged their feet on the driver
to enable all the 3D effects. If it is true that Microsoft and Vista are
to blame, it would appear that Vista might have something to do
with the new cheap not working as promised. I personally have
gave up on computer games and going the game console road.
It seems that a ever growing resource hog like Vista requires such a
fast expensive graphics card to play games. It's cheaper just to go
with a dedicated gaming console.

[J_Satch]

Vista and Gaming

If your looking at Vista for a gaming platform, that's your problem. XP is still the OS for PC gaming. There is no compelling reason to use Vista for gaming until DX10 games become available, not to mention decent stable video drivers.

A respectable (not top end) gaming PC running XP is only marginally more expensive that a new console and, of course, is not limited to just gaming.

[nightspark]

Team up with Nvidia

I think that Intel should team up with Nvidia in order to produce a killer integrated GPU. Nvidia shouldn't give them the most advance stuff. Just enough to compete with AMD's integrated chips that are going to be released. If they don't then Intel will lose market share to better integrated graphics chips and thus CPU's, like the article said consumers want great looking games and a low price. Who is the one that can deliver...AMD.