Yeah; Intel locked NVidia out of the chipset market with Nehalem, so in order to use an NVidia GPU you need to have an extra die on the motherboard, you can't f

Yeah; Intel locked NVidia out of the chipset market with Nehalem, so in order to use an NVidia GPU you need to have an extra die on the motherboard, you can't fold it into the chipset. There's no room in the Air chassis for that, so to stay off Intel Integrated graphics, they have to stay on Core 2 Duo.