That's right, instead we're told by NVIDIA that the discrete GeForce 201M GPU runs continuously and Intel's integrated chip is never used -- a configuration which sounds like it'll absolutely kill the battery life on this machine.

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Double chip speeds, which happens every 18 months, and somebody is sure to write software that will kill an old way of doing a task.

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Even contrarians who predicted that a 5, 000 Dow would kill the rally have put away their gloomy predictions and cheered as New York's blue-chip index soars toward 8, 000.

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