It's called a Mac.
The more you standardize the computer, the less it becomes a PC thus defeating the point of having a completely (well, nearly) open platform and market. I think the PC would suddenly realize the limitations in some ways that the Mac and obviously a console has due to more standardization. Less software and hardware choices. The PC will never be standardized, because if it changed at such a fundamental, it would no longer be what we call a PC.
The PS2 should be able to add trilinear filtering, run with less slow down, and possibly run antialiasing, shouldn't it? I remember seeing a few videos and screenshots of it running Gran Tursimo and the video was much cleaner and the cars' shiny effect was much better. I won't count on Bleem to run PSX games very well. If you've ever tried it on a PC, you know how horribly it runs. It stutters violently and has trouble keeping time sync'ed to reality. (it runs faster than realtime one second, then goes slower) And it doesn't seem to matter how fast of a computer you have. I think the Bleem team should be shot in public for claiming it runs well on a 233MMX. I've played it on a 550mhz TNT2 Ultra machine and it runs like ass. Personally, I'll be buying a PS2 purely for the games. I have a PS1 and the only games I own are Gran Turismo, Gran Turismo 2, FF7, FF8, and Tekken 3. The PS2 is clearly the best choice given my taste in games.
Well this puts BP6 owners in an interesting position. Windows 2000 just recently made SMP workable, but driver support is still somewhat iffy. I currently have a BP6 myself but I never bothered with SMP because the Nvidia drivers still seem a bit buggy in Win2000. And SMP is really only useful for compiling various things and games. But even Q3 performance only seems to jump 10-20% with SMP, plus take off 5% for immature Win 2000 video drivers. Now we have the Celeron 2. Hmmm. Well SMP seems to be broken even with one of those nifty Powerleap adapters. But how would a single C2-566 compare to a single C1-550? Or how does dual C1-550's compare to a single C2 running a 866-900mhz? Is it worth the upgrade? How consistently are these C2's going to overclock to a 100mhz (+/-) bus? A ~866 mhz Celeron 2 looks really temping to me right now. And it's not THAT expensive (looks like under $200) I wouldn't have to bother with Win2000's immature video drivers, a single processor helps ALL applications, and SSE can't hurt either.
Surveying? Palm Pilot, contractor's edition? Alternate mode for gamepad type input? I got it, you put an alarm on the thing in case it gets jacked! Ok, maybe not. I guess the real question is why not!
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It's called a Mac. The more you standardize the computer, the less it becomes a PC thus defeating the point of having a completely (well, nearly) open platform and market. I think the PC would suddenly realize the limitations in some ways that the Mac and obviously a console has due to more standardization. Less software and hardware choices. The PC will never be standardized, because if it changed at such a fundamental, it would no longer be what we call a PC.
Looks like a good time to invest in soap manufacturing companies. J&J, P&G here I come! ... or something.
The PS2 should be able to add trilinear filtering, run with less slow down, and possibly run antialiasing, shouldn't it? I remember seeing a few videos and screenshots of it running Gran Tursimo and the video was much cleaner and the cars' shiny effect was much better. I won't count on Bleem to run PSX games very well. If you've ever tried it on a PC, you know how horribly it runs. It stutters violently and has trouble keeping time sync'ed to reality. (it runs faster than realtime one second, then goes slower) And it doesn't seem to matter how fast of a computer you have. I think the Bleem team should be shot in public for claiming it runs well on a 233MMX. I've played it on a 550mhz TNT2 Ultra machine and it runs like ass. Personally, I'll be buying a PS2 purely for the games. I have a PS1 and the only games I own are Gran Turismo, Gran Turismo 2, FF7, FF8, and Tekken 3. The PS2 is clearly the best choice given my taste in games.
Well this puts BP6 owners in an interesting position. Windows 2000 just recently made SMP workable, but driver support is still somewhat iffy. I currently have a BP6 myself but I never bothered with SMP because the Nvidia drivers still seem a bit buggy in Win2000. And SMP is really only useful for compiling various things and games. But even Q3 performance only seems to jump 10-20% with SMP, plus take off 5% for immature Win 2000 video drivers. Now we have the Celeron 2. Hmmm. Well SMP seems to be broken even with one of those nifty Powerleap adapters. But how would a single C2-566 compare to a single C1-550? Or how does dual C1-550's compare to a single C2 running a 866-900mhz? Is it worth the upgrade? How consistently are these C2's going to overclock to a 100mhz (+/-) bus? A ~866 mhz Celeron 2 looks really temping to me right now. And it's not THAT expensive (looks like under $200) I wouldn't have to bother with Win2000's immature video drivers, a single processor helps ALL applications, and SSE can't hurt either.
Surveying? Palm Pilot, contractor's edition? Alternate mode for gamepad type input? I got it, you put an alarm on the thing in case it gets jacked! Ok, maybe not. I guess the real question is why not!