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John Carmack may not believe in dedicated PPUs, but it seems that Dell certainly does, as IGN recently reported that the company is set to add Ageia’s new mobile PhysX PPU to its laptop line, a move that now appears to be all but confirmed by the above image residing on Ageia’s press site. The mobile PhysX PPU itself was announced just ahead of the recent Leipzig Games Convention, and promises to offer many of the same benefits as its desktop counterpart while keeping power consumption to a minimum (10W during gameplay, according to Ageia). While there still doesn’t seem to be any official word from Dell, as IGN points out, the company’s top-end XPS M1710 (or forthcoming M1730) would seem to be the most likely to get the new upgrade.

[Thanks, Mack S]