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Free is too expensive (Economist)

Free is too expensive (Economist)

Posted Apr 9, 2012 14:34 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Free is too expensive (Economist) by nix
Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)

But that's exactly what khim and me is telling. Good switchable GPUs are a hard task to implement.

So vendors simply don't bother with Linux where it'll be useful only for a fraction of 1% of their users. NVidia hasn't even ported their Optimus technology to Linux in proprietary drivers.

In the area of switchable GPUs all we get is airled. And while he's a mega-super-developer, he can only do so much.


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