> On 5/26/06, Christopher Snell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems like every major laptop manufacturer is locked into Intel > > CPU, graphics, WiFi, and sound and that there's no chance in hell that > > Intel will release specs on these. What is the future of laptop > > support for free Unicies? Will SpeedStep ever be reverse engineered? > > Are we forever doomed to barely-working laptops? > > umm, the graphics and sound for intel chipsets are completely > documented. the "correct" way to use speedstep (est) is through acpi, > which is also documented, even though we should now pretty much > support every est cpu at least basically. the situation with wifi > could be better, but if you download the firmware it works. > > you have either misappraised the situation, or your defintion of > barely working is very different than most people's.
Intel is changing their ways. They got seriously hurt by NVidia and ATI taking over the video market, while simultaneously AMD hurt them on the processor side. The real enemy today is Nvidia (and ATI). Intel is trying to release documentation and open up as fast as they can to stay in the market. It's almost pathetic, but yes, it is benefiting us (as it should, and thus, us running on their machines benefits them, as it should).
