How many high-end boards have you looked at? I can't find a single one that *DOESN'T* have a 9-pin connector on the board (usually labelled COM). Just attach one of these
Trash collection may be mundane, but if it's not paid through taxation, you'll get all kinds of negative consequences of schemes to dispose of trash without paying the user fees.
Completing a business deal of that magnitude requires going over the books with a fine-toothed comb on the part of the company doing the buying. Groupon's books would not have passed the litmus test, as you're seeing now that they've managed to go public.
How about the screen and keyboard? Does your Toshiba have an unibody aluminum design?
I always thought Apple stuff was overpriced too, but there's a lot more to it than the CPU speed and how much memory is in a laptop. This coming from a guy who has never owned an Apple product.
This has turned out to be rarely true in practice. Only about 3 models each of MSI and Asus 800-series motherboards can run a Bulldozer CPU with a BIOS update and NO Gigabyte 800-series boards will except for the very last hardware revisions of about 8 of their models.
The motherboard OEMs did a much better job of supporting new CPUs on their existing boards for the previous AM2 - AM2+ - AM3 transitions.
The outstanding "integrated" graphics performance of the laptop and desktop Llano APUs (ugh, marketing) greatly expands the number of niches where AMD is the better choice. That now includes nearly home user on the planet.
I wouldn't worry much about AMD even if this Bulldozer launch is underwhelming.
In other words, it's probably not the BIOS that will ship with the final product, and they can remove the ability to toggle that setting at any time in the future.
The existing ones in the genre are pretty poorly written and conceived reducing the characters to one dimensional figures robbing them of their humanity.
And this is different from megahit superhero movies, how?
The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur did alright back in the day, I think it could be a next-big-thing somewhere down the road.
AMD doesn't have to win all they have to be is "good enough"
If you've been paying attention, this strategy is working wonders in the OEM market. Have you looked at the Best Buy flyer in the past couple months? Nearly half the laptops are:
AMD E-350
3-4GB RAM
500GB HD
15.6" screen
There'll be one each for Toshiba, Acer, HP, etc, but the stats are identical and the price (~$400) is eye-popping. We're about to see some serious marketshare slide in AMD's favour if we haven't already.
Even worse than that, "higher than usual call volume" is an outright lie. They are experiencing "typical" call volumes, but it still leads to excessive queuing.
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False.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/23/dining/23pout.html
I like DisplayPort's chances, more than anything because of its royalty-free-ness.
It's finally getting some market penetration in monitors and video cards too. It took a while for that ball to get rolling, but it finally is.
How many high-end boards have you looked at? I can't find a single one that *DOESN'T* have a 9-pin connector on the board (usually labelled COM). Just attach one of these
Also, get a load of this: Floppy port on a current-gen gaming board! What'll they think of next?
Of your 3 sentences, two are true and one is false.
I've never heard dual-link DVI called a pain in the ass before, and I've been using a 30" monitor for years. Please do go on...
Now, we're fighting the fear that Chinese could become global players with these thinly-veiled outrage stories.
The fear is legit. Huawei for one is sneaking up while nobody is paying attention.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-magazine/huawei-will-china-conquer-the-world/article2243928/
In my last laptop upgraded I decided to go with a Dell XPS because the ThinkPad T was overpriced here.
That's because the Dell XPS line is for consumers and isn't built to the same quality (nor do you get on-site warranty coverage).
How did the price compare to Dell Latitudes? Then you'd be comparing apples to apples.
Trash collection may be mundane, but if it's not paid through taxation, you'll get all kinds of negative consequences of schemes to dispose of trash without paying the user fees.
The deal would have never gone through.
Completing a business deal of that magnitude requires going over the books with a fine-toothed comb on the part of the company doing the buying. Groupon's books would not have passed the litmus test, as you're seeing now that they've managed to go public.
Why the hell haven't you moved closer if the job is so stable?
How about the screen and keyboard? Does your Toshiba have an unibody aluminum design?
I always thought Apple stuff was overpriced too, but there's a lot more to it than the CPU speed and how much memory is in a laptop. This coming from a guy who has never owned an Apple product.
Did everything work as expected once you set it back to stock speeds in the BIOS?
Is a "pentabyte" 5 petabytes?
Nope, 5 bytes.
Let me tell you, finding a pentadecimal calculator was a real pain in the ass
This has turned out to be rarely true in practice. Only about 3 models each of MSI and Asus 800-series motherboards can run a Bulldozer CPU with a BIOS update and NO Gigabyte 800-series boards will except for the very last hardware revisions of about 8 of their models.
The motherboard OEMs did a much better job of supporting new CPUs on their existing boards for the previous AM2 - AM2+ - AM3 transitions.
Welcome to 2011:
The cheapest 2GB DDR3/1333MHz stick on Newegg!
I find Steve to be a much more common alleged name.
The outstanding "integrated" graphics performance of the laptop and desktop Llano APUs (ugh, marketing) greatly expands the number of niches where AMD is the better choice. That now includes nearly home user on the planet.
I wouldn't worry much about AMD even if this Bulldozer launch is underwhelming.
In other words, it's probably not the BIOS that will ship with the final product, and they can remove the ability to toggle that setting at any time in the future.
Ask and ye shall receive! Diablo 3 doesn't require Steam!
Every problem you name has a technical workaround that your average Slashdotter could name off the top of their head.
Don't buy what Google is selling if you don't want it.
The existing ones in the genre are pretty poorly written and conceived reducing the characters to one dimensional figures robbing them of their humanity.
And this is different from megahit superhero movies, how?
The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur did alright back in the day, I think it could be a next-big-thing somewhere down the road.
They're profitable too thanks to their low budgets. Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ showed mainstream audiences will pay to see them.
How do I get in on the ground floor of this next bubble?!
Jumping on his typo (he certainly meant to type Javascript) rather than the content shows you are admitting he's right.
You don't have much choice when it's installed on the corporate image.
AMD doesn't have to win all they have to be is "good enough"
If you've been paying attention, this strategy is working wonders in the OEM market. Have you looked at the Best Buy flyer in the past couple months? Nearly half the laptops are:
AMD E-350
3-4GB RAM
500GB HD
15.6" screen
There'll be one each for Toshiba, Acer, HP, etc, but the stats are identical and the price (~$400) is eye-popping. We're about to see some serious marketshare slide in AMD's favour if we haven't already.
Even worse than that, "higher than usual call volume" is an outright lie. They are experiencing "typical" call volumes, but it still leads to excessive queuing.