GeForce 7900 Vs. Radeon X1900

Gamespot has an article comparing the shiny you get when using a Nvidia GeForce 7900 GTX SLI and an ATI Radeon X1900 XTX Crossfire. From the article: "All told, the barrier to entry is enormous; but once you're there and running your games at 1920x1080 with 4x antialiasing and 16x anisotropic filtering, any regrets you might have had about spending a small fortune will be thrown out the window. We're sure that one of these setups offers a better experience, however. The two could differ in terms of raw performance or the subtleties of image quality depending on the game. Either way, if you're going to lay down the smack for the best performance, we're going to make sure you get it."

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A fruitful connection

[Anonymous Coward]

A fruitful connection
From The Economist print edition

A new Steve Jobs; a second coming. But is it the same old Apple? The firm's predicament is that in the desktop computer market there is bound to be only one winner--markets based on standards tend to work that way--and the IBM-compatible PC is it. Apple, dazzled by its own brilliance, chose to go it alone, refusing to allow an industry of cloners to arise, as IBM did. As far behind as the original PC may have been, it was only a matter of time before the collective efforts of Microsoft, Intel and a horde of others would overtake Apple. Now that day has come, and no amount of restructuring, marketing or price-cutting can disguise the fact that Apple is the Betamax of computers.

Those who expect the returning prophet to change this ghastly situation reckon without the change in the prophet himself. [In 1997,] Mr Jobs demonstrated his own grasp on reality by selling all but one of the 1.5m Apple shares he had received for NeXT. He did not, he said, see much of a future for Apple. Moreover, he has told Pixar staff that he will not be leaving [...]

This is hardly the Steve Jobs that Apple enthusiasts know and love. Where is his vision for restoring Apple to its rightful place in the industry it did so much to create? Intact, actually: the newly level-headed Mr Jobs knows that Apple's rightful place is a niche, at best, despite its glorious history. Today he talks about refocusing on its strengths in the publishing and education markets, tomorrow he may steer it to the cheap "network computers" Mr Ellison is so enthusiastic about. But it is hard to see a future in which Apple is not a smaller firm, less obsessed by the victory of the inferior PC, and probably without Mr Jobs.

His own fortune assured, and Pixar a success, Mr Jobs has little to prove by taking the helm of a sinking ship, even one he built long ago. At least he is well placed to break the bad news that, having lost the desktop war, Apple must now find something different to do. Having once distorted reality, his duty now is to make Apple face up to it.

Someone Moderated me troll

[LordKazan]

Someone Moderated me troll - how cowardly, immature and innappropriate. My post wasn't trolling- my post was a simple statement, and was true. As far as I can recall those games it [nvidia card] performed better on were designed to use it more efficiently than it would the ATI card. And my expirience with driver issues from nvidia and it's burn up rate aren't trolling either they're the truth.