NVIDIA Optimus Preview Roundup

Hot Hardware

"NVIDIA's Optimus graphics switching and power saving technology, though a little complex to explain from a design and software standpoint, couldn't be easier to understand and see in practice and function from an end users perspective. In fact, what NVIDIA has done with the technology enables a level of both functional and design simplicity that is, for us and we're sure notebook consumers to follow, a thing of beauty. There is a simple elegance here that NVIDIA has enabled with Optimus and it's the way it should have been done a long time ago quite frankly."

Tech Report

"Optimus shouldn't just be confined to low-rent GPUs and affordable systems, though. I see no reason why more expensive mobile gaming systems shouldn't use this switchable graphics tech to combine high-performance mobile GPUs capable of running the latest games with integrated graphics that can surf the web all day long on battery power. Now that's my kind of Prius."

Legit Reviews

"NVIDIA OPTIMUS appears that it may have some serious potential. Not having a unit in front of me it is incredibly tough to tell you if it as good as it appears. If it performs as well as it looks like it does, it may be a must have in the very near future. If it doesn't perform as well as NVIDIA has shown us, it will most likely go the way of the Dodo bird."

PC Perspective

"I think is fair to say that NVIDIA Optimus is one of the most impressive mobile technologies we have ever seen. While switchable graphics promised us a future of mobility computing that was both light on power consumption and heavy on performance, Optimus looks like it could actually deliver on that. The ability to seamlessly and near-instantaneously switch between the integrated graphics on nearly any Intel platform and a large number of discrete graphics chips from NVIDIA enables a totally new paradigm for notebooks computers."

AnandTech

"So we say again: no NVIDIA-based laptop going forward should ship without Optimus. In fact, if a manufacturer has a design in the works that's almost ready for market and it uses an NVIDIA discrete GPU without Optimus, please do us a favor and rework the product."

Hexus

"After a hands-on play with an Optimus-toting ASUS laptop we come away with a positive impression. This isn't ground-breaking tech; it won't make your games run faster or your laptop to have increased battery life if running solely on the IGP. Rather, Optimus helps premium laptops to function the way they were designed to do."