Several sites have been reporting on the new NVidia plan to unify the Desktop and Notebook drivers into a single “unified” architecture.  Their various desktop systems have been unified for quite some time, but laptop owners have long been at the mercy of the OEM providers to release updates which were frequently outdated and buggy.  Embracing the laptop-buzz generated by Optimus and the new mobile chips, NVidia is seizing the opportunity to begin releasing a single driver for all platforms.

This is particularly important as of late, because the GPU is being used for more than just gaming. Owners of notebooks with discrete NVIDIA GPUs that wanted to take advantage of the increasing number of CUDA-enabled applications, for example, can’t do so if their notebook drivers didn’t enable CUDA.

via NVIDIA To Unify Desktop and Notebook Drivers – HotHardware.