The i7-740QM was introduced almost 3 years ago, June 2010, at release time costing $378 (if you bought in lots of 1000).

I didn't find historical pricing data for the 445M video card, but here's a relevant data point: I bought my GeForce 470 at almost exactly that time, for $420 retail (so the bulk price would be around $400, I think?). Measured in raw FLOPS, the GF470 is over three times as fast as the 445M (the video card tested).

So dollar for dollar, TFA undervalues the GPU by about a factor of three?

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Intel_processors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_%28microarchitecture%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_p...