Hi Jim, I am looking at Sandy Bridge CPUs for unrelated reasons, but just saw this and it reminded me of your post so I thought you'd find it useful
http://www.fudzilla.com/processors/item/20203-sandy-bridge-gpu-gets-disabled-with-discrete-gpu Although it doesn't look like good news for you. Cheers, Tony On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Jim Donovan <j...@aptnsw.org.au> wrote: > I have found a shop selling laptops with Sandy Bridge i5 CPUs at the right > price. I want a Sandy Bridge machine so I can experiment with OpenCL on the > on-chip Intel graphics. > > However, the laptop also contains ATI Radeon graphics driving the display > which no doubt cost money and uses battery power, although that's not my > concern. > > Question: The laptop presumably contains a P67-style chipset rather than > H67, making it impossible to drive the display through the on-chip graphics. > Will it nevertheless be possible for OpenCL to see the on-chip graphics > processor? > > Jim Donovan > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
