Today, I’m focusing on nVidia’s practice of (mis)labeling their line of mobile graphics chips to make them seem more equivalent to their famed desktop products.

Earlier, I was reading Trusted Reviews’ excellent coverage of the first laptop to integrate a 8800m GTX. Having used many nVidia mobile and desktop graphics chips in the past, instinctively, the first thing that entered my mind was to what extent has nVidia limited this mobile chip’s performance compared to that of its desktop equivalent.

It seems that every time nVidia releases a new mobile chip, they lend it a title that closely matches a desktop product, which, if you ask me, implies that it also closely matches it in performance. As we all know, this is hardly the case. Over the years, lowered expectations for mobile graphics performance has been something we’ve all come to live with. Read the rest of this entry »