ATI stream question

Ive "heard" it may include the 3xxx series as well as the 4xxx series. Dont know for sure yet. Maybe someone else has more onfo, but the thing is, we will all know in a few weeks anyhwo

First of all who is this 'he / him' ?

Second, it depends on what platform he's going to be working on and to do what?

Right now it's driver limited only in the Vista realm, and considering that they've announced support for the V5700 series then it may include the HD3650 series as well, which is what the mobility equivalent is. IMO, it will be limited to the HD3K series due to the DP divide between 2K & 3K.

But the thing is this initial announcement is for those who primarily already deal with Brook+ or CAL aware apps, it's not about random plug-ins.

The Avivo converter will be something that intergrates itself into the driver and the 'stream' component will go unnoticed.

Biggest issue about current laptops, is somewhat like SS said, that Vista drivers comes from the laptop OEM not ATi, you can only get raw drivers for XP, so if you are buying a current laptop, be sure you can roll it back or have it come with XP from the start, because otherwise you rely on the OEM or on using the driver mod tool to try and make it work for your laptop, and if you're not savvy, it's a bit tricky.

And even then the laptop cards don't always have all of the features of the desktop cards. So 'he' may be waiting beyond release 8.12 for support.