Nintendo has already annouced Wii first party games will be only $50 and not the $60-70 PS3/Xbox 360 games will be.
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Being able to store movies/video on the PSP and not having to lug around those UMD discs everywhere is the killer app of movies on the PSP. The last thing I want to do when lugging around the PSP is having to lug around a million UMD's discs.
Intel can't really say much. Intel can't afford to lose Dell. They just sell too many computers and they wouldn't never do anything for Dell to totally switch over to AMD. AMD would capture a ton of marketshare if Dell totally dropped Intel.
update Dell has agreed to use Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron chip in multiprocessor servers by the end of the year, ending a long-standing policy of sticking exclusively with Intel.
The PC maker made the move public in its first-quarter earnings press release on Thursday. Speculation has mounted for years as to whether the company would adopt the company's chips, despite Dell's exclusive relationship with rival Intel to this point. AMD has enjoyed a performance lead in server benchmarks over Intel's Xeon processors.
"We welcome Dell, and Dell customers, to the world of AMD64," Marty Seyer, an AMD senior vice president for commercial business, said in a statement distributed after Dell's earnings release. Dell executives delayed the start of an earnings call with the press and were unavailable to comment further.
Although the deal appears to be confined to servers at this point, it still represents another win for AMD, which has had a long string of gains over its rival.
Even as it said it would launch some multiprocessor servers using AMD chips, Dell noted that it plans to launch new servers using Intel's Woodcrest microprocessors as well as desktops and notebooks with new Intel chip families.
Dell's decision to abandon its longstanding all-Intel policy comes amid less-than-stellar earnings for the first quarter. The results were in line with the warning the company provided last week. Revenue was $14.2 billion, up 6 percent from last year, but net income slid 18 percent to $762 million. Dell said it's no longer giving specific quarterly financial guidance, though it did say the second quarter should be similar to the first.
Dell said on Thursday it was accelerating its plans for $3 billion in cost cuts and will spend $100 million on improving its customer service.
Company founder Michael Dell admitted the company's performance over the last year had been disappointing. "I think there are lots of opportunities for us to do quite a bit better than we did last year," he said at the Future in Review conference Monday. "We didn't recognize how competitive the market was going to be."
Several times during the last few years, Dell CEO Kevin Rollins has hinted that the company was right around the corner from introducing products based on AMD's chips. Ever since AMD introduced Opteron in 2003, the processor has enjoyed an advantage over Intel's Xeon. During an extended period in 2005, server vendors Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and IBM were shipping dual-core versions of the Opteron processor, and Dell could offer only single-core Xeon processors.
Mercury Research analyst Dean McCarron said that a lack of AMD-based systems has hurt Dell in the server business, which, though a fairly small unit market, accounts for a disproportionate share of PC industry profits.
"They've been feeling a lot of competition from Opteron products from the other Tier 1 players," McCarron said, pointing specifically to IBM, HP and Sun.
"Presumably it got to the point where Dell had to decide what mattered more--loyalty or trying to deal with the competition," he said.
While late to the market, McCarron said, Dell could still nab a piece of the Opteron server pie.
"This is a very competitive business," McCarron said. "The fact that they have lost market share doesn't mean that they can't regain it."
Meanwhile, Dell said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it plans to sell up to $1 billion short-term unsecured notes, known as commercial paper.
You also have to remember the Wii isn't designed a HDTV like the Xbox 360 or the PS3. Games will looks miles better on those systems with a HDTV. On a regular TV I would guess the Wii will look better than the 360 or the PS3 just because the ps3/360 will have to dither the graphics.
With Nintendo being the cheapest system and it doesn't require you to get a HDTV. I firmly believe they will be the console that comes out on top this generation of systems. PS3 will not be #1 this time around and will sink to #3.
Also don't forget to change the start menu fluid every 3000 clicks or you lose about 5fps and the office paper clip reminds you to change it every 10 minutes till you do it.
Nintendo is doing everything they can to get back to the #1 spot. They have the entire 8 and 16 bit catalog at their disposal. They should should try to get the entire Atari 2600-7800 catalog up there too and I think they'll hit a homerun with their system especially if they get Revolution out there at a $150 price tag.
I honestly think Nintendo is going to pull a coup this time around and get back to being #1 in the video game console arena.
Seriously, releasing a console at $500 is death. 3DO proved that...I expect Nintendo to pull a coup this time around if they bring out the Revolution out at $150 and really get out there and promote the vast backwards compatability of their new system.
I don't think you do anything with your PC. I have a very hard time keeping one week uptimes with Windows XP because I always have to reboot when I install something. It's not as bad as previous Windows OS's but it's still pretty prevelant that you have to reboot in XP alot.
Agreed...something the article fails to mention is that the Xbox 360 is being actively marketed towards HDTV! You turn any of those games mentioned into a game designed for a HD TV and your filesize is going to go through the roof and this is where the Xbox 360 has been poorly designed without a HD-DVD drive included with it from the get go.
Multi-DVD games will be seen alot in future Xbox 360 games. Yes, I know M$ will be releasing a HD drive for the Xbox 360 in the future but how many developers will waste their time getting those discs pressed? Not too many as the costs will not justify producing the games on that media. Addon hardware RARELY does well on consoles.
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dipshit and creative...isn't that an oxymoron?
Or are you just mad because people are smarter than you and exploit the holes in your software you created?
Personally, I think companies should be held liable for bugs in their programs. PC Games would be in dire trouble if this occured.
You tell that to the creators of the 3DO console and you get back to me!
Nintendo has already annouced Wii first party games will be only $50 and not the $60-70 PS3/Xbox 360 games will be.
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Being able to store movies/video on the PSP and not having to lug around those UMD discs everywhere is the killer app of movies on the PSP. The last thing I want to do when lugging around the PSP is having to lug around a million UMD's discs.
It voids your warranty! And no Tech Support! Well no shit sherlock!
Intel can't really say much. Intel can't afford to lose Dell. They just sell too many computers and they wouldn't never do anything for Dell to totally switch over to AMD. AMD would capture a ton of marketshare if Dell totally dropped Intel.
update Dell has agreed to use Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron chip in multiprocessor servers by the end of the year, ending a long-standing policy of sticking exclusively with Intel.
The PC maker made the move public in its first-quarter earnings press release on Thursday. Speculation has mounted for years as to whether the company would adopt the company's chips, despite Dell's exclusive relationship with rival Intel to this point. AMD has enjoyed a performance lead in server benchmarks over Intel's Xeon processors.
"We welcome Dell, and Dell customers, to the world of AMD64," Marty Seyer, an AMD senior vice president for commercial business, said in a statement distributed after Dell's earnings release. Dell executives delayed the start of an earnings call with the press and were unavailable to comment further.
Although the deal appears to be confined to servers at this point, it still represents another win for AMD, which has had a long string of gains over its rival.
Even as it said it would launch some multiprocessor servers using AMD chips, Dell noted that it plans to launch new servers using Intel's Woodcrest microprocessors as well as desktops and notebooks with new Intel chip families.
Dell's decision to abandon its longstanding all-Intel policy comes amid less-than-stellar earnings for the first quarter. The results were in line with the warning the company provided last week. Revenue was $14.2 billion, up 6 percent from last year, but net income slid 18 percent to $762 million. Dell said it's no longer giving specific quarterly financial guidance, though it did say the second quarter should be similar to the first.
Dell said on Thursday it was accelerating its plans for $3 billion in cost cuts and will spend $100 million on improving its customer service.
Company founder Michael Dell admitted the company's performance over the last year had been disappointing. "I think there are lots of opportunities for us to do quite a bit better than we did last year," he said at the Future in Review conference Monday. "We didn't recognize how competitive the market was going to be."
Several times during the last few years, Dell CEO Kevin Rollins has hinted that the company was right around the corner from introducing products based on AMD's chips. Ever since AMD introduced Opteron in 2003, the processor has enjoyed an advantage over Intel's Xeon. During an extended period in 2005, server vendors Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and IBM were shipping dual-core versions of the Opteron processor, and Dell could offer only single-core Xeon processors.
Mercury Research analyst Dean McCarron said that a lack of AMD-based systems has hurt Dell in the server business, which, though a fairly small unit market, accounts for a disproportionate share of PC industry profits.
"They've been feeling a lot of competition from Opteron products from the other Tier 1 players," McCarron said, pointing specifically to IBM, HP and Sun.
"Presumably it got to the point where Dell had to decide what mattered more--loyalty or trying to deal with the competition," he said.
While late to the market, McCarron said, Dell could still nab a piece of the Opteron server pie.
"This is a very competitive business," McCarron said. "The fact that they have lost market share doesn't mean that they can't regain it."
Meanwhile, Dell said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it plans to sell up to $1 billion short-term unsecured notes, known as commercial paper.
Hopefully AMD can keep up with production of their chips as I'm sure this will lead into desktop models not being far behind.
I guess it's a good thing fps's aren't the only genre you can play on a laptop then.
You also have to remember the Wii isn't designed a HDTV like the Xbox 360 or the PS3. Games will looks miles better on those systems with a HDTV. On a regular TV I would guess the Wii will look better than the 360 or the PS3 just because the ps3/360 will have to dither the graphics.
With Nintendo being the cheapest system and it doesn't require you to get a HDTV. I firmly believe they will be the console that comes out on top this generation of systems. PS3 will not be #1 this time around and will sink to #3.
Also don't forget to change the start menu fluid every 3000 clicks or you lose about 5fps and the office paper clip reminds you to change it every 10 minutes till you do it.
12 days ago actually...
It's pretty funny the department that gets the most funding gets a F grade. What a joke!
Meanwhile NASA only gets a drop in the bucket.
Ask.com throws big ad searches first before any of the results you actually want. Google ads are off to the side. I'll stick with Google still.
Nintendo is doing everything they can to get back to the #1 spot. They have the entire 8 and 16 bit catalog at their disposal. They should should try to get the entire Atari 2600-7800 catalog up there too and I think they'll hit a homerun with their system especially if they get Revolution out there at a $150 price tag.
I honestly think Nintendo is going to pull a coup this time around and get back to being #1 in the video game console arena.
Seriously, releasing a console at $500 is death. 3DO proved that...I expect Nintendo to pull a coup this time around if they bring out the Revolution out at $150 and really get out there and promote the vast backwards compatability of their new system.
I don't think you do anything with your PC. I have a very hard time keeping one week uptimes with Windows XP because I always have to reboot when I install something. It's not as bad as previous Windows OS's but it's still pretty prevelant that you have to reboot in XP alot.
McAfee doesn't have the greatest rep as it is but this might be the last straw for them.
Seriously I have never seen a controller break soooooooo easily. The 5200 controller should be #1 no contest on that grounds alone.
I think instead of 5 or 30 minutes after landing it should be 24 hours or so to win. Why would anyone go to the moon and only spend 30 minutes there?
Another tool for Jack Bauer to use on 24!
Parent is modded flamebait when it's the truth? I guess the truth hurts too much for some people(mods).
Agreed...something the article fails to mention is that the Xbox 360 is being actively marketed towards HDTV! You turn any of those games mentioned into a game designed for a HD TV and your filesize is going to go through the roof and this is where the Xbox 360 has been poorly designed without a HD-DVD drive included with it from the get go.
Multi-DVD games will be seen alot in future Xbox 360 games. Yes, I know M$ will be releasing a HD drive for the Xbox 360 in the future but how many developers will waste their time getting those discs pressed? Not too many as the costs will not justify producing the games on that media. Addon hardware RARELY does well on consoles.