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Valve Releases Hardware Survey Results

Posted by Zonk on from the i-know-what-you've-been-playing dept.

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."

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  1. confusing presentation by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They made the same mistakes in presentation of this survey that everyone else seems to make. I have 1 gig of RAM. So, do I fit in the category of 512mb-1gig, or do I fit in the category of 1 gig to 1.5 gig? That's just a stupid mistake. Even if they collected the data properly, they aren't reporting it properly. Stupid, useless survey. OK, I see the first line that implies that the ranges are set up like this: [low-high). Is it so hard to carry that through the entire chart?

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    1. Re:confusing presentation by Tyir · · Score: 4, Funny

      Stop moving two minutes forward in time and stealing my posts!!

    2. Re:confusing presentation by kafka47 · · Score: 5, Funny

      If he were moving forward in time, wouldn't he be posting after you?

      Plus which, his post is shown to be four minutes before yours. My temporal mechanics is a bit rusty, but that makes him posting a full six minutes ahead of you (had he not used his transmorgifier to shorten the gap).

      Takes quite the effort to get ahead of, er behind, you.

  2. Windows SP2 stats: The beast is everywhere... by geoffybiggins · · Score: 4, Funny

    XP SP 2 (Build 2600) 666,890 65.89 %

  3. nice... by BRTB · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just want to salute whoever the joker is that convinced the survey app that he had an "INTERWEBntel" processor.

  4. Re:And which one of you... by PylonHead · · Score: 4, Informative

    I can't speak for anyone else, but I did agree to be profiled. It was very clearly optional.

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  5. Learn a new thing everday! by doofer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Language:
    Korean (Adult) 22,241 2.19 %
    Korean (Teen) 3,140 0.31 %

    Never knew Korean language was actually specified as different for Adults and teenagers!

    Bet english and a lot of other languages _could_ do the same.