• Fully Detonator driver compatible

The GeForce2 MX uses the same Detonator drivers as all other NVIDIA chips. This is useful for card and system builders who need to maintain fewer drivers as well as for businesses using the machines who can implement one driver across a broad range of hardware, saving support time.

NVIDIA's launch partner is Toshiba, who will be the first to ship a notebook with the GeForce2 Go. Toshiba will first ship it in their Satellite line of notebooks, starting with their high-end machine. Prices for the systems will start under $3000 US, and should work their way down over time. The notebooks will definitely be gaming oriented! They should arrive in Spring 2001, which is late Q1 2001. Other notebooks makers will likely follow Toshiba, though NVIDIA had no other makers named.

NVIDIA has made massive headway against ATI over the past couple of years. ATI has lost plenty of market share and now NVIDIA is going into the mobile market, teamed up with Toshiba, the largest volume maker of notebook computers. ATI isn't likely to sit on their laurels, and they have new mobile parts coming, but NVIDIA is going to do some serious damage with the GeForce2 Go. There is going to be a performance war between NVIDIA and ATI in the notebook graphics chip market and, no matter how it turns out, consumers will be better off for it. The RADEON is a fast chip, faster than the GeForce2 MX, and when it goes mobile, likely a while after the release of the GeForce2 Go, ATI may regain the mobile speed lead.

So there you have it, folks. Hardware T&L and blazing game performance in a mobile chip! The ATI Rage 128 is good, but we don't think it can keep up with the GeForce2 Go. Come Spring 2001, the gamer on the go will have a new weapon.

Jon Simon
Assistant Editor