Ask them why they want it? I am not 100% opposed to citrix, only because over a 56k dialup line it works well. Terminal services will bog down in situations where citrix works. Of course if you are remote admining servers in the datacenter any you have a 100mbit connection to the box, there is no reason to pay the extra licensing fees.
I use citrix to admin remote boxes all the time. But only when I am subjected to very low abndwidth connections.
You gotta love reviews like this. First he takes a product that is meant to go into *budget* *low-end* machines, and compares it to the upper echelon of *no cost spared* performance.
Then he proceeds to run this card at 1600x1200 with beta drivers against cards with excellent debugged drivers. Any sort of numerical or empirical evidence he could get at this point is about.05% useful to me.
Sure the thing may only get 4.9 FPS on a new demanding game at 1600x1200 with beta drivers. I bet you that same card will belt out over 60fps at 1024x768 when the real drivers are released.
People seem to forget that a video card driver's quality can be the difference between horrible performance and class leading performance. If the driver is not debugged and performance optimzed, there is nothing a hardware designer could do to make that card perform well.
I say that this is an excellent card that will allow users who do not want to spend $500 on a video card to play the latest and greatest games on the market. It is a Dx9 card, with full support. To me, this is an excellent card.
I bet they sell a whole boatload of these things to OEM manufacturers and those who do not really want to spend an entire car payment on moving some pixels around.
-TinyManCan
I have personally seen and used this phone. It has amazing voice quality, which some phone companies do not spend so much time on, and it is a fully functional iPaq. Slim and sexy, it is the perfect form factor, and drops in a pocket nicely.
Using GPRS, this phone provides an always-on internet connection, so you can browse the web while you are talking to someone! I know I am going to get bashed for promoting a MS powered product, but this one is just plain phat. You gotta try and get your hands on this beaut.
I for one love the text messaging feature. You can never doubt its utility during meetings, conferences and anywhere else where you need to communicate, but can't talk (i.e. School).
I easily send 20+ text messages a day to friends and co-workers.
You would be suprised at the utility of this feature if you've never used it. Too bad many cell phone companies do not make messaging as simple as Voicestream does. GO GSM!
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I use citrix to admin remote boxes all the time. But only when I am subjected to very low abndwidth connections.
Then he proceeds to run this card at 1600x1200 with beta drivers against cards with excellent debugged drivers. Any sort of numerical or empirical evidence he could get at this point is about .05% useful to me.
Sure the thing may only get 4.9 FPS on a new demanding game at 1600x1200 with beta drivers. I bet you that same card will belt out over 60fps at 1024x768 when the real drivers are released.
People seem to forget that a video card driver's quality can be the difference between horrible performance and class leading performance. If the driver is not debugged and performance optimzed, there is nothing a hardware designer could do to make that card perform well.
I say that this is an excellent card that will allow users who do not want to spend $500 on a video card to play the latest and greatest games on the market. It is a Dx9 card, with full support. To me, this is an excellent card.
I bet they sell a whole boatload of these things to OEM manufacturers and those who do not really want to spend an entire car payment on moving some pixels around. -TinyManCan
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I have personally seen and used this phone. It has amazing voice quality, which some phone companies do not spend so much time on, and it is a fully functional iPaq. Slim and sexy, it is the perfect form factor, and drops in a pocket nicely.
Using GPRS, this phone provides an always-on internet connection, so you can browse the web while you are talking to someone! I know I am going to get bashed for promoting a MS powered product, but this one is just plain phat. You gotta try and get your hands on this beaut.
-TinyManCan
I easily send 20+ text messages a day to friends and co-workers.
You would be suprised at the utility of this feature if you've never used it. Too bad many cell phone companies do not make messaging as simple as Voicestream does. GO GSM!