Comments on: Nvidia can't shake MacBook, chipset unit rumors

On the downside, company has been dogged by negative press and analyst reports. On the upside, rumors persist it will play big role in expected MacBook refresh.

[Mr. Dee]

I have an update for my nVidia Geforce 6200 card available in Windows Update (Vista) since July and I am not installing it. Thats just how unstable nVidia drivers are.

[3rdalbum]

Mr Dee, your post is a bit off-topic, but Nvidia's drivers cause 90% of all system-wide and Xorg crashes on my Linux computer, and are well-known as the cause of corrupted video playback on Linux. I don't think the poor quality of their drivers are causing them to sell their chipset business though.

[Signal-Support-System-Spc]

This entire article is retardation at the highest level. If Nvidia is losing any money at all, then it's clearly due to Bushonomics and not their company's model. Nvidia is the industry leader in chip technology. I don't care what nm manufacturing process they are currently at. They have a dynamic and intrinsic understanding of what market needs and they have always made products that surpass that demand. Not only have they been collaborating with NASA for quite some time but they just recently released pro-types for motherboards on a chip. This supposed "analyst" most likely is working for Intel in some lesser or greater degree, only because AMD doesn't have the brain power to redirect attention from its old rival. If and this is by far and large a great 'if" Nvidia does anything with Apple, then it is to invest in Apple shares so that it will have total control over the MAC OS and in short order put Intel in the grave of greed where it belongs.

[gerrrg]

And yet, Nvidia's got manufacturing problems, they might be selling their chipset biz even though they were trying to leverage their video biz to push the chipset...and then they openly trash talk about Intel?

That's about as obvious of a failed biz model, if not just plain stupid.

Instead of focused on the competition, Nvidia should have been focused on their own business and sending out their engineers to work with others to develop close relationships, even begging for others to adopt their chipset. Problem for Nvidia is, they only want to play the game one-way, to their advantage. All you need to do is look at how they handled the manufacturing defect of their video cards. Have they come out of denial yet? Have they made it an open offer to replace anyone's card? Seems more like they've gone back to attacking Intel instead of taking care of business.

[Vegaman_Dan]

I do believe you forgot to mention Elvis, Bigfoot, aliens, and the mafia in your conspiracy theory posting there. If you're going to post a nutball comment, please sure to be complete.

[Vegaman_Dan]

It would seem that in light of nVidia's recent problems in the manufacturing area and chipset drivers for notebooks that having such in your new product would be a *liability* and not something you would really want to promote.

I'm not clear how this will affect Apple's product, but these Macbooks may be 'those laptops with the nVidia chipset' that later people try to avoid once they start melting down or crashing. They could also work great without any trouble, but recent issues tend to dispute that.

[Zaunto]

That isn't all.

Have you noticed the steep discounts that 9600GT cards are going for these days, with the advent of ATI's 4670 series? The huge injection of cash into AMD + Spinning out the fabs + Dubai assumption of 1.2Billion of AMD debt doesn't make things any easier for NVidia, particularly if they get out of the chipset biz. AMD will have a complete platform to strengthen (CPU+Chipset+GPU) and NV will not. BIG PROBLEM for NV.