The trade off is battery life and all the little nicks and dings on a 4 year old machine. And no warrantee. You can get almost any 4 year old 12-13" 2lb ultraportable with a Pentium M (1-1.5GHz) and a 1280x800 LCD and all the bells and whistles for well under $300 (usually around $200) but if you want the extended battery life you'll have to shell out another $100 at batteries-are-us.
There are a slew of little device servers that tend to be rather pricey that this device could replace. I think I paid $100 for a wireless printserver that only supports a single printer. I could run all 3 of mine off this gadget. And I could run my all in one off it, it wasn't supported by the printserver.
I'm just gonna have to say that Justin can be pretty goddamn funny. He may have gotten rich off of the mediocrity machine but he does the absurd well too.
That seemed to really bother a lot of people though I never understood why. Nobody complains that Han Solo uses an 1896 Mauser that shoots some kind of energy beam that travels slow enough to visually track. But weapons that a colonist blacksmith could make, that's just crazy talk.
They could have done this a few years ago before the push to HD. Now I think what you'd want to do is make a USB 3 dongle that could output HD video and audio over HDMI.
USB 3 is just around the bend with up to ~400MBPS (yes bytes) throughput. Still limited to 5v and.15A though. A lot of things that right now need a couple of PCIe lanes and an internal card are going to be very doable over USB on new computers come this time next year.
The Displaylink driver accomidates a lot of USB display adapters and notebook docking stations made by a variety of manufacturers. HP, Samsung, EVGA, etc... have USB display devices that can use this driver. There's not much to bitch about here.
Agreed, though to nit pick a car analogy (I apologize in advance) they are just offering me a new test engine and telling me they will toss the old one if I don't make arraignments.
At the end of the year the only thing crushed on any of my RC test machines will be the partition Windows 7 is installed on and I'll be the one that pushes the button. That's the plan anyways.
I keep disk image backups of my installs. Also I won't be using the RC (or any non-Google beta) on a production machine. It's not supposed to be the machine that stores your data. They seemed to make that clear, to me at least. Lastly, the machine I'm currently running it on Tri Boots between Windows7, XP, and Ubuntu.
Windows 7 sits on its own partition. When that partition gets deleted XP and Ubuntu will still be there. And if something goes haywire an W7 eats the other partitions, well they are backed up and restored from a separate HDD.
I'd use the term netbook to describe a windows 95 era subnotebook like the libretto if it was too slow to run Windows 95 so you had to run Win3.11 and it cost about half the price of a much faster subnotebook that could run Win95 pretty well.
The Libretto was actually a nice piece of kit and it wasn't cheap at all. So I wouldn't really call it a netbook.
The market for a small notebook not specifically designed to be cheap still exists and they aren't marketed as netbooks. If you take "race to the bottom" out of the equation you're talking about a SubNotebook or an Ultraportable.
Netbook is a marketing term to describe the reduced utilty you wind up with, when you design an Ulraportable with cost as your first concern.
Sounds like you're on the 10 year plan.Really it depends on what you plan to spend for your bang for the buck. Also you won't be reusing much from the old system if you self build except the monitor, KB/M, and maybe the ATX tower.
I like the i7 920 combo deals right now. Not the cheapest way to go (CPU+MB=$500) but lots of power. 6GB of DDR3 (x53 mobo uses 3 64bit memory channels) is about $100
A Core2Quad system can be built cheaper just be sure that iVT is supported if you want to use it. For example, right now, newegg has on their "specials" page a nice deal on the q8400. Guess what it doesn't support? iVT. Also to beat the i7 920 in performance a Core2Quad needs to be running around 3GHz. I'd go Q9550 (2.8GHz w/12MB L2)at least, with a "namebrand" $140 iP45 board and 8GB of DDR for about $500.
I moved closer to the "train" almost a year ago and I kept the car because sometimes you just don't want to taxi/train somewhere. But not parking downtown saves costs me over $1500 a year and, even from the perimeter (ATL), it's a 2 hour daily rush hour(s) commute which is another $1500 a year in gas. Commute maintenance, wear, and tear from the commute cost more than $500 per year. MARTA 30 day passes work on buses and trains run $50 and get me there in half the time.
I made a seperate partition for Win7 but I don't think I'll be using it much on this 8 month old machine. At least not till I can get video and sound working correctly. Mostly it's just driver weirdness. No support for 1360x768 on my LCD. Spanned desktop doesn't work. Audio jack ports can't be reassigned like they can under WinXP. That sort of crap.
Speed wise, I didn't notice anything to recommend or discourage using it on a "budget gaming box". The gui is pretty. Maybe the hardware support will improve.
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Aren't variable aerodynamics banned, though?
The trade off is battery life and all the little nicks and dings on a 4 year old machine. And no warrantee. You can get almost any 4 year old 12-13" 2lb ultraportable with a Pentium M (1-1.5GHz) and a 1280x800 LCD and all the bells and whistles for well under $300 (usually around $200) but if you want the extended battery life you'll have to shell out another $100 at batteries-are-us.
There are a slew of little device servers that tend to be rather pricey that this device could replace. I think I paid $100 for a wireless printserver that only supports a single printer. I could run all 3 of mine off this gadget. And I could run my all in one off it, it wasn't supported by the printserver.
You're machine was born Pwnd. Nuf said.
I'm just gonna have to say that Justin can be pretty goddamn funny. He may have gotten rich off of the mediocrity machine but he does the absurd well too.
Bricka braka firecrackah
Sis boom bah
Old Ones Old Ones
Rah rah rah!
If they do a Cthulhu theme they need to cast Walter Koenig.
That seemed to really bother a lot of people though I never understood why. Nobody complains that Han Solo uses an 1896 Mauser that shoots some kind of energy beam that travels slow enough to visually track. But weapons that a colonist blacksmith could make, that's just crazy talk.
Ollie Air in an SUV would be pretty impressive, but I've yet to see anyone try it.
Maybe they don't want hordes of cheap, 5 year old centrino notebooks with Moblin flooding Ebay? Say, that's not a bad idea...
I thought that was Windows 7.
When I hit Ctr-Alt-Del his eyes just flash.
They could have done this a few years ago before the push to HD. Now I think what you'd want to do is make a USB 3 dongle that could output HD video and audio over HDMI.
USB 3 is just around the bend with up to ~400MBPS (yes bytes) throughput. Still limited to 5v and .15A though. A lot of things that right now need a couple of PCIe lanes and an internal card are going to be very doable over USB on new computers come this time next year.
Goodness! Language!
The Displaylink driver accomidates a lot of USB display adapters and notebook docking stations made by a variety of manufacturers. HP, Samsung, EVGA, etc... have USB display devices that can use this driver. There's not much to bitch about here.
This is why we can't have nice things.
What police can or can't do to a vehicle depends on what state you are in. Big surprise.
Agreed, though to nit pick a car analogy (I apologize in advance) they are just offering me a new test engine and telling me they will toss the old one if I don't make arraignments.
At the end of the year the only thing crushed on any of my RC test machines will be the partition Windows 7 is installed on and I'll be the one that pushes the button. That's the plan anyways.
I keep disk image backups of my installs. Also I won't be using the RC (or any non-Google beta) on a production machine. It's not supposed to be the machine that stores your data. They seemed to make that clear, to me at least. Lastly, the machine I'm currently running it on Tri Boots between Windows7, XP, and Ubuntu.
Windows 7 sits on its own partition. When that partition gets deleted XP and Ubuntu will still be there. And if something goes haywire an W7 eats the other partitions, well they are backed up and restored from a separate HDD.
Not at all.
I'd use the term netbook to describe a windows 95 era subnotebook like the libretto if it was too slow to run Windows 95 so you had to run Win3.11 and it cost about half the price of a much faster subnotebook that could run Win95 pretty well.
The Libretto was actually a nice piece of kit and it wasn't cheap at all. So I wouldn't really call it a netbook.
The market for a small notebook not specifically designed to be cheap still exists and they aren't marketed as netbooks. If you take "race to the bottom" out of the equation you're talking about a SubNotebook or an Ultraportable.
Netbook is a marketing term to describe the reduced utilty you wind up with, when you design an Ulraportable with cost as your first concern.
Sounds like you're on the 10 year plan.Really it depends on what you plan to spend for your bang for the buck. Also you won't be reusing much from the old system if you self build except the monitor, KB/M, and maybe the ATX tower.
I like the i7 920 combo deals right now. Not the cheapest way to go (CPU+MB=$500) but lots of power. 6GB of DDR3 (x53 mobo uses 3 64bit memory channels) is about $100
A Core2Quad system can be built cheaper just be sure that iVT is supported if you want to use it. For example, right now, newegg has on their "specials" page a nice deal on the q8400. Guess what it doesn't support? iVT. Also to beat the i7 920 in performance a Core2Quad needs to be running around 3GHz. I'd go Q9550 (2.8GHz w/12MB L2)at least, with a "namebrand" $140 iP45 board and 8GB of DDR for about $500.
As I posted above, not all Core2 CPUs support iVT. So choose carefully if it's important to you.
This has more to do with the randomness with which Intel included iVT on Core2 processors IMO.
Here's a list that shows which Core2 CPUs have iVT. Look closely and you be surprised at some that don't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_2_microprocessors
Security through obscurity.
We need a tracker that only tracks torrents of lists of other trackers that don't use google to advertise them.
I moved closer to the "train" almost a year ago and I kept the car because sometimes you just don't want to taxi/train somewhere. But not parking downtown saves costs me over $1500 a year and, even from the perimeter (ATL), it's a 2 hour daily rush hour(s) commute which is another $1500 a year in gas. Commute maintenance, wear, and tear from the commute cost more than $500 per year. MARTA 30 day passes work on buses and trains run $50 and get me there in half the time.
So I'd say I'm saving 3 grand a year or so.
I made a seperate partition for Win7 but I don't think I'll be using it much on this 8 month old machine. At least not till I can get video and sound working correctly. Mostly it's just driver weirdness. No support for 1360x768 on my LCD. Spanned desktop doesn't work. Audio jack ports can't be reassigned like they can under WinXP. That sort of crap.
Speed wise, I didn't notice anything to recommend or discourage using it on a "budget gaming box". The gui is pretty. Maybe the hardware support will improve.