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Valve Releases Hardware Survey Results
Chris_Yates writes "A hardware survey containing over one million entries has been made public by Valve, the creators of Half-Life 2. Some interesting facts include: 65.89% now have SP2 compared to 17.04% for SP1, AMD and Intel almost split 50/50 with nVidia edging out ATI 50.72% to 41.03%. The Radeon 9800 and 9600 take the top two spots with 20% combined."
I can't speak for anyone else, but I did agree to be profiled. It was very clearly optional.
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Erm, everyone who participated agreed to be profiled......
When you logged into Steam a window popped up asking if you wanted to be part of the survey.
Paranoia's bad, Mmmkay?
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8.88% have over 250GB HDD? And to think I am fine with 20GB....
Look at the firstline of the category:
>=24 Mb to 32 Mb
I assume this is followed throughout displayed results. Still, it's a little a bit confusing at first, I admit.
So if you've got 512MB, you're in the "512 Mb to 1 Gb" category, not the previous one.
By the way, isn't 'b' bit and 'B' byte? If so, they should've presumably used MB, GB etc. instead of Mb, Gb etc.
Didn't they have a similar survey last time?
Wait, I found it.
http://valve.speakeasy.net/
or on the other hand , have the system misrepresent the data which is rather easy on linux ,Fairly sure it would be easy on windows too.
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
What I find interesting is that most players have DVD drives (85%), yet game companies consistently release majority in CD format..