Portal is far more graphically intense than any game 90% of people are ever going to play on their PC. WoW and Farmville are more likely the targets for this and integrated covers that fine.
This is what everyone does. Any test with early parts or free parts is rigged, don't trust them. Either the test is rigged or very commonly the part is.
This is not limited to computer parts, car reviews are often of cars specially setup for the reviewers. Lambo brings two cars to every review one setup for going fast in a straight line and one for cornering work. If you dare mention this or use the cars in the way they are not setup and print it you will never review another Lambo without buying it or borrowing one from a buyer.
You are actually bitching about less power than a light bulb used to use?
At worst case it looks like ~60 watts on the two higher end units. How low power is the monitor if that constitutes doubling the power? I am betting total system in this little test ignores the monitor.
Oh noes tens of dollars more per year in electricity! The HORRORS! How ever will I afford such an extravagance that costs per year almost what two drinks at the bar costs.
If they are within 100watts I would call it a wash and be far more interested in computing power per $ upfront cost. AMD has traditionally done very well in that test and only started failing it very recently.
On Windows XP SP2 yes, All of those can host it. Which means VDI and still stuck with windows. About 80% of our employees need it. This is not the only program like this.
This is pretty common for custom enterprise software. It is all terrible.
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Portal is far more graphically intense than any game 90% of people are ever going to play on their PC. WoW and Farmville are more likely the targets for this and integrated covers that fine.
gaming, not faming. I am not making people famous via some computer method.
When you are talking about saving $30 over the course of the life of the machine you are never going to recoup that upfront cost.
The only machines I build are my faming machine, AMD CPUs are fine and I will be using an NVIDIA card no matter what CPU I get so drivers are covered.
So what was good when they were new?
I had one and it seemed up to the task for every game that was new at that time.
For casual games integrated video is now good enough, has been since at least sandy bridge.
Hard drive speeds are the biggest desktop bottle neck these days. Stick an SSD in any old desktop and watch what that does.
That is why I said 90%, the other 10% are the gamers.
This is what everyone does.
Any test with early parts or free parts is rigged, don't trust them. Either the test is rigged or very commonly the part is.
This is not limited to computer parts, car reviews are often of cars specially setup for the reviewers. Lambo brings two cars to every review one setup for going fast in a straight line and one for cornering work. If you dare mention this or use the cars in the way they are not setup and print it you will never review another Lambo without buying it or borrowing one from a buyer.
All prerelease info is like this, same with any reviewer who got the part for free.
What we really need is the consumer reports of computer hardware. Buy it only from normal vendors and don't advertise.
Why would they not compare their new entry level CPU to their competitors entry level CPU?
These CPUs are designed to be priced against i3 of course they should be compared to i3.
You do realize that an NVIDIA card will work just fine in a computer with an AMD or intel CPU right?
For 90% of folks either of these is good enough.
I have played portal 2 on my macbook air using the Sandy Bridge graphics. It was fine.
Very few folks care about dedicated graphics cards these days.
I have 1 machine that has one, it cost a $100 and that is it. I might buy another if Steam for Linux ever launches.
I game on my linux box, I don't however select motherboards with video out. Solves that problem quite nicely.
You are actually bitching about less power than a light bulb used to use?
At worst case it looks like ~60 watts on the two higher end units. How low power is the monitor if that constitutes doubling the power? I am betting total system in this little test ignores the monitor.
Oh noes tens of dollars more per year in electricity! The HORRORS! How ever will I afford such an extravagance that costs per year almost what two drinks at the bar costs.
If they are within 100watts I would call it a wash and be far more interested in computing power per $ upfront cost. AMD has traditionally done very well in that test and only started failing it very recently.
Because Windows 8 hopefully makes you love tiles so much that you buy WinPhone8, and sign up for the subscription version of Office.
Why even compare to Sandy Bridge at all?
At least compare to Ivy Bridge if you are going to try to fight i3s.
You know you can just not use it right?
Why bother looking for a chip without it?
Heck, these days it is even usable and has good open drivers.
A Gbit connection is tiny in 2012, even 10Gb is cheap now.
If you want 1Gb to 10Gb to your desktops you will want 10 times that in the core of your network where that file storage lives.
You could just get a smartphone with a keyboard and not carry around a purse.
On Windows XP SP2 yes, All of those can host it.
Which means VDI and still stuck with windows. About 80% of our employees need it. This is not the only program like this.
This is pretty common for custom enterprise software. It is all terrible.
Then why do we not have an East and West North America? The Rockies split North America.
That's good, bad sign to get upset at people who do not exist.
So run an old kernel.
The code is still available, feel free.
You can still import xls, and ssconvert will convert xls to xlsx just fine.
True but it is generally considered an Eastern European country.
Looking at a map though, Europe and Asia and not that clearly divided. Other than cultural why do we consider them separate continents?
How is " wait for inputs, analyze them, produce outputs" not exactly what all intelligence does?
Serious question.