NVIDIA Chooses Windows CE
NVIDIA has made their choice, they decided that Windows CE is where they want their names attached for the Tegra netbooks. My take? Who cares. It seems silly to continue on with those pointless “boycott NVIDIA” rants that we see everywhere when the fact of the matter is, going with ATI is not really “better”. No, I say good for them. If they feel that Windows CE (not Win Mobile) is where they want to be, whoopie for them.
Frankly with as much trouble as NVIDIA has with drivers on any platform, I doubt it will matter much anyway. I have not been able to remember a single new Windows release in which NVIDIA wasn’t dead last in getting it right. Actually, the truth is that NVIDIA has seen better support on Linux in not screwing up than it has on Windows, but this is just my own experiences with countless cards and PCs.
NVIDIA knows full well that Windows CE is a “safe” bet for them. Because Windows is expected to be a market leader with netbooks, NVIDIA is following the money and leaving common sense at the back of the bus as per usual. So good luck to the video card maker, supporting a Windows styling that has been plagued with issues over the years. From what I understand, this release of Windows CE is “different”. Well again, good luck with that.
3 Comments
Ron Knights
July 9th, 2009
at 9:24am
I’ve used nVidia cards in Macs & Pcs for years.
I love them.. they work, with no problems.
Of course I will continue to ignore Netbooks all together.
Windy Millers Hardware & Software News
July 16th, 2009
at 5:50am
I agree with Ron, I’ve never really had problems with nVidia drivers, maybe the occasional game that soon get’s updated anyway. That said, I have also had ATI when they were not AMD, and never had trouble there either. Maybe I’ve been lucky…
Shlomi Fish
July 23rd, 2009
at 11:27pm
Ron Knights: I’ve had tons of problems with nvidia cards and their proprietary Linux nvidia driver. I had a GeForce 4 MX card. Lots of hang-ups, crashes, and other quirks. The nv driver was not perfect either, and nouveau hardly worked at all (no ability to switch to a virtual console and back for example). Hang-vidia it is.
Now I have an ATI card (Radeon HD 2600 Pro), and the computer (same computer) is rock-solid when running the open-source radeonhd driver. It doesn’t do 3-D yet, but otherwise, I’m very happy with it.