ATI FirePro M5800 mobile graphics chipset listed, world awaits details with bated breath
By Tim Stevens 
posted February 1st 2010 8:41AM
posted February 1st 2010 8:41AM
posted February 1st 2010 8:41AM
A look back on popular stories from today in a specific year.
Now that we've thrown 'em off the trail, use the form below to get in touch with the people at Engadget. Please fill in all of the required fields because they're required.
@Solidstate89
If the competitor has 90% market share, it sounds like they should be trying to compete. Snagging a couple percent from the market leader is exactly the thing you should be doing to try to grow your business and make your investors happy.
@Solidstate89
You got it wrong they should compete in this area. ATI has a great product here and if priced properly it will help to usher in more competition and choice.
Plus..
There are allot of people who are pissed at Nvidia for their g84, g86 chips that had thermal failure. Compile that with the fact that
I hate this companies attitude and arrogance and The fact that they wouldn't come clean on the issue until WELL AFTER the warranties had expired on many problem machines out there.
I will only buy competitor products in the future.
HP Elitebook + Bag of Hurt + 58xxM GPU= POWER! Even I, an Apple addict, can appreciate this machine and lust for it. May very well be my next lappy.
@think before you react
almost forgot- FIRST! (make sure you downrank this comment) lol
@think before you react
Let's thank goodness ATI is now in HP laptops FTW. I wanted to buy an HP laptop with ATI in it, but because of NVIDIA exclusivity, I was gonna look elsewhere. Currently have a Toshiba with Intel GMA - sucks, but gonna replace it soon hopefully.
Get those coolers ready.
@think before you react
Just remember this is based on a Juniper chip (with 800 Stream Processors) and not Cypress (with 1600 Stream Processors), even though they share the same name.
@Andr
I was looking for info like that- where did you find it?
@think before you react How dare you insult the all mighty Apple?! Jobs could slap an abacus for a GPU and still would be the best darn graphics in the industry. ;)
Well the 9600M is a step up from an abacus, but it still stinks. I recommend staying away from any Apple laptop until they've updated them, and put in something decent, at minimum I would say a GTS 350M should be in the 15in and 17in.
ATi....... finally! Well. Better late than never. Welcome to this area of the consumer space :)
The correct verb for this phrase is 'bated', not 'baited'.
Also, yay sarcasm.
@(Unverified) When ya try to sucker someone into being a spelling nerd, it's "baited".
@(Unverified) Thanks, fixed.
@(Unverified)
To further the word nerdism, bated is an adjective in this phrase.
Sorry, I hate picking nits and fully (and rightfully) expect to get down-ranked for it, but if we're going to talk about anxiously waiting for some new hotness can we at least say bated and not baited? We're holding our breath (or abating it) not putting it on a hook.
@JaxTJ Rightfully picked, and now fixed.
Sounds like a fire extinguisher... not a bad thing to have in a laptop..
maybe this is whats going in the macbook pro
@Solidstate89
maybe I should have read that this card is for workstations, thanks for the heads up.
I'm just bummed new MBP's weren't announced along with the friggin macsiPad
@Solidstate89
The 9600M GT is NOT an IGP. The 9400M technically isn't either, though it's booked as one. The 9600 is a discrete GPU.
That said, this new card won't appear in any notebooks outside of niche manufacturers as 1) the FirePro cards are CAD cards, not 3D cards for games and other purposes, the Fire series is a worksdtation card. 2) they're about 3-10 times the price of the retail cards they're loosely based on, and 3) wtf do you do CAD on a notebook for? ...and if you do, you're far less than the number of people who might use this. This however DOES look like if could go in an iMac 27"... though it's perhaps time we saw the Mac PRO finally get a workstation card before they equip the iMac with one...
@zelannii
You Sir/Madam, are clearly not a CAD jockey, or at least not one who travels. I'd give a laptop with such a graphics card to several of my engineers...preferably something of the size and weight of my old 14" T41p which had a Fire series card however many eons ago.
Does this mean the word has fish breath or do you mean bated breath?
I myself prefer the 5800XM. I believe it runs Symbian quite nicely.
Heh heh, you said bated.
Ouch eat that Nvidia! =P
Can I have this in a T series thinkpad? The only thinkpad that has graphics like this is the w700 with quadro but its hugeee.
Can't wait for one of these in a MacBook Pro soon (unlikely though).
What about the ASUS G73, is that not also using the new 5800 mobility series graphics card? If so ASUS will beat HP to the punch. Mine will ship on the 10-12th of this month but will not be out to the general public until March.
Someone correct me if im wrong
@dtmcnamara
I think I answered my own question...Im guessing this and the HD58xx series are different?...idk