Comment Re:Laptops? (Score 1) 341
Oh, "Linux" is headed in the same direction? Since when does Linux have anything to do with GUIs. Or did you mean XFree/X.org?
As for offloading graphics work from the CPU to the GPU, duh...good idea. But that's the way things have been since the early 90s.
I think the point the poster was trying to make was that this extra fluff isn't actually going to allow you to accomplish anything you couldn't do before. It'll just be "fluffier", and on a laptop, that's gonna shorten battery life.
As for offloading graphics work from the CPU to the GPU, duh...good idea. But that's the way things have been since the early 90s.
I think the point the poster was trying to make was that this extra fluff isn't actually going to allow you to accomplish anything you couldn't do before. It'll just be "fluffier", and on a laptop, that's gonna shorten battery life.