Oh please....it takes my current machine 20-30 seconds. You're telling me 1 second isn't fast? Someone get this guy the cynic of the year award. You remind me of that joke about the guy who is given a free steak, glass of scotch, a cigar and sex with a super model and all the guy does is complain he doesn't smoke.
Clearly you've never gamed on a 30" display and played Crysis or STALKER at 2560x1600 with max detail. Current video cards can ALMOST play those games at a constant 30fps...key word is almost. With these new cards we'll be able to play games that blow away console games in terms of quality and resolution. I love my 360, I really do but it doesn't hold a candle to my GTX 275 and Dell 30" LCD. It's pure graphical bliss and for gamers like me graphics are apart of the experience. It's all about the realism.
Consoles haven't been changing since the 1970's. You act like this is some new phenomena.
You also fail to understand that PC's can hook up to HDTVs so they are not double the resolution at a 1/4 the size. I have a PS3, an XBox 360 and a HTPC all hooked up to a 110" LCD projector. My HTPC is able to do 1080p with full AA where as the 360 doesn't even do 720p for many games including flag ship titles such as Halo 3. The HTPC looks better and is on a massive screen.
my impulsive ass just bought an NVidia 275 GTX two weeks ago so I could play Crysis and STALKER Clear Sky on my Dell 30". The card has certainly delivered, averaging around 30fps for both games at 2560x1600 at max detail but that doesn't leave a lot of breathing room for future titles. I paid $230 at Frys. Now I see that for a few bucks more I could have gotten the 5850 which would be far more future proof with considerable more power.
Unfortunately I threw the packaging away for my new video card which complicates returning it! This 5870 looks amazing for only $350ish.
I get modded troll for calling out someone else who was clearly trolling!! God I love this site. Uh oh!!! Someone didn't rip on Bush/Conservatism/Republicans. Time to mod them troll.
someone mod this guy troll. Spare us the clichéd rant against Bush. You'd have to be pretty ignorant of history to label Bush a fascist compared to guys like Hitler. Spare us the kool aid induced hyperbole. The guy is no longer in office. Take the 20 bumper stickers of your car and give it a rest already.
Go study WWII and then come tell me you'd prefer that over these minor wars we're facing. 100 million dead and the complete obliteration of several countries.
That's like saying an American company can't sell French Fries if they were made in Idaho. I can call the syrup I make in my backyard Vermont Syrup all I want.
George Lucas, Stephen Spielberg and James Cameron are either all billionairres or close to it and they continue to do the thing that made them rich to begin with. I picture someone like John Carmack programming til the day he dies regardless of his net worth. I love to code...it's helped me to earn a pretty nice living and even when I come home at night after a long day of work I code little projects on the side. To me it's like painting or any other creative pursuit. I enjoy doing it and I don't see myself ever being to wealthy to want to stop doing it.
...as much as the next guy and I even got rid of my gas guzzling sports car but there are limits to my conservation efforts. I like shiny cases. I have a Mac Pro running Windows 7 and it' just a thing of beauty. I think it's great what he's doing but at the same time I don't want to feel guilty about placing some value on things that look or perform nice at the expense of the environment. I'm all for reducing our footprint but at the same time I'm emotionally shallow enough that I like to surround myself with pretty metal things that probably took a lot of effort to extract from the earth.;)
...I joined the day the original Galaxies was released and was simply never able to get into it. It was slow and glitchy and there wasn't much to do. I can remember spending days wandering around Tatooine killing rats and occassionaly hanging out in a bar watching people stand around endlessly. I wasn't surprised when they came out with the new version and I'm not surprised it's beginning its death spiral now. I'm really hoping the Star Wars Old Republic MMORPG is going to be waaay better.
...this has been an age old argument amongst gamers. I for one am someone who plays games for the graphics. There's a reason my fav games of all time are almost all FPS for the PC. These are the games that really pushed the technological/graphical envelope. I fully recognize that I'm in the minority. Luckily for me companies like id, Epic, Valve, Crytek and GSC Game Worlds are out there catoring to engine enthusiasts like myself.
You mean like a keyboard and mouse? It's not like people are really packing full sized joysticks or race pedals to play Counterstrike. This seems cool and all from a geeky perspective but the case I use to carry my gaming notebook has AMPLE room for an external mouse and why would I substitute the iPhone for it?
Don't get me wrong this is kind of cool from an academic point of view but I can't really see anyone finding this preferable over the built in keyboard and wireless mouse.
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Dune, Ender's Game, Forever War, Hyperion, (anything by Philip Dick), Foundation or Robot series by Asimov...
...in the memory banks of an R2 unit.
...is horrible. MS really messed up on this one. If this ad is bad then their OS must be the worst thing ever. Bill Gates FAIL!!!! WAR LINUX!!!
(eagerly awaits +5 informative or +5 interesting or +5 funny)
Once again the anonymous cowards mod me flamebait when I was simply trying to add clarity to my post. Talk about gutless asshats.
I got modded flamebait for clarifying my previous comment?????
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!
Did I say anywhere in my post that I was talking about booting to the desktop?
Oh please....it takes my current machine 20-30 seconds. You're telling me 1 second isn't fast? Someone get this guy the cynic of the year award. You remind me of that joke about the guy who is given a free steak, glass of scotch, a cigar and sex with a super model and all the guy does is complain he doesn't smoke.
Anonymity whore ;)
Clearly you've never gamed on a 30" display and played Crysis or STALKER at 2560x1600 with max detail. Current video cards can ALMOST play those games at a constant 30fps...key word is almost. With these new cards we'll be able to play games that blow away console games in terms of quality and resolution. I love my 360, I really do but it doesn't hold a candle to my GTX 275 and Dell 30" LCD. It's pure graphical bliss and for gamers like me graphics are apart of the experience. It's all about the realism.
Consoles haven't been changing since the 1970's. You act like this is some new phenomena. You also fail to understand that PC's can hook up to HDTVs so they are not double the resolution at a 1/4 the size. I have a PS3, an XBox 360 and a HTPC all hooked up to a 110" LCD projector. My HTPC is able to do 1080p with full AA where as the 360 doesn't even do 720p for many games including flag ship titles such as Halo 3. The HTPC looks better and is on a massive screen.
I do read them daily actually...AnandTech, Tom's Hardware, PC Perspective to name a few. I hadn't heard a peep about this until today.
my impulsive ass just bought an NVidia 275 GTX two weeks ago so I could play Crysis and STALKER Clear Sky on my Dell 30". The card has certainly delivered, averaging around 30fps for both games at 2560x1600 at max detail but that doesn't leave a lot of breathing room for future titles. I paid $230 at Frys. Now I see that for a few bucks more I could have gotten the 5850 which would be far more future proof with considerable more power.
Unfortunately I threw the packaging away for my new video card which complicates returning it! This 5870 looks amazing for only $350ish.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
I get modded troll for calling out someone else who was clearly trolling!! God I love this site. Uh oh!!! Someone didn't rip on Bush/Conservatism/Republicans. Time to mod them troll.
This place is pathetic.
It's called freedom of speech...you might have heard of it
someone mod this guy troll. Spare us the clichéd rant against Bush. You'd have to be pretty ignorant of history to label Bush a fascist compared to guys like Hitler. Spare us the kool aid induced hyperbole. The guy is no longer in office. Take the 20 bumper stickers of your car and give it a rest already.
Go study WWII and then come tell me you'd prefer that over these minor wars we're facing. 100 million dead and the complete obliteration of several countries.
That's like saying an American company can't sell French Fries if they were made in Idaho. I can call the syrup I make in my backyard Vermont Syrup all I want.
Or should I have said The No Internet Axis? Get it????? (starts getting hit with rotten tomatoes)
...just joined the Axis of No Internet Access. Other members include my parents and that homeless guy down the street.
George Lucas, Stephen Spielberg and James Cameron are either all billionairres or close to it and they continue to do the thing that made them rich to begin with. I picture someone like John Carmack programming til the day he dies regardless of his net worth. I love to code...it's helped me to earn a pretty nice living and even when I come home at night after a long day of work I code little projects on the side. To me it's like painting or any other creative pursuit. I enjoy doing it and I don't see myself ever being to wealthy to want to stop doing it.
...a nanny government in the movie Blade Runner.
...as much as the next guy and I even got rid of my gas guzzling sports car but there are limits to my conservation efforts. I like shiny cases. I have a Mac Pro running Windows 7 and it' just a thing of beauty. I think it's great what he's doing but at the same time I don't want to feel guilty about placing some value on things that look or perform nice at the expense of the environment. I'm all for reducing our footprint but at the same time I'm emotionally shallow enough that I like to surround myself with pretty metal things that probably took a lot of effort to extract from the earth. ;)
...I joined the day the original Galaxies was released and was simply never able to get into it. It was slow and glitchy and there wasn't much to do. I can remember spending days wandering around Tatooine killing rats and occassionaly hanging out in a bar watching people stand around endlessly. I wasn't surprised when they came out with the new version and I'm not surprised it's beginning its death spiral now. I'm really hoping the Star Wars Old Republic MMORPG is going to be waaay better.
...this has been an age old argument amongst gamers. I for one am someone who plays games for the graphics. There's a reason my fav games of all time are almost all FPS for the PC. These are the games that really pushed the technological/graphical envelope. I fully recognize that I'm in the minority. Luckily for me companies like id, Epic, Valve, Crytek and GSC Game Worlds are out there catoring to engine enthusiasts like myself.
You mean like a keyboard and mouse? It's not like people are really packing full sized joysticks or race pedals to play Counterstrike. This seems cool and all from a geeky perspective but the case I use to carry my gaming notebook has AMPLE room for an external mouse and why would I substitute the iPhone for it?
Don't get me wrong this is kind of cool from an academic point of view but I can't really see anyone finding this preferable over the built in keyboard and wireless mouse.