lol, yeah, for interpolation gives so much better picture quality! That's why I enlarge all my digital photos from 4 mpx to 120 mpx, just look at the quality! Stuning!
Sony could probably easily add it, or if it's that important for you why not get a TV which supports upscaling instead?
Why would you need to replace it to get something new?
And I hate people who speaks about picture quality from the size of the screen, how does that matter? In this case it's all about resolution. Color ranges, contrasts and such are other important factors, but the size of the screen?
As long as you sit close enough that you will notice the additional picture quality blu-ray or whatever will offer an improvement. If it's 4" 10 cm from your eyes or 60" 7 meters away doesn't matter.
Yeah, shouldn't entusiast hardware running at general specs outperform the cheaper stuff? In quality that is.
Like, so what if the RAM can run at 1333 MHz with 1.8 volt or whatever someone said, if you are going to use it at 800 MHz and 1.5 volt? It's not like the suggested value ram sold at those specs would be able to run at 1333 MHz with 1.8 volt. Which make them seem like less quality to me.
Yeah, so what if it fails physical inspection if it still works as it should!?
And in Intels case they overclock so well I think they are holding back somewhat to get some extra performance if needed in case AMD would release something catching up.
Since people expect performance to increase at a somewhat linear rate why make huge jumps and then not be able to increase them that much longer later and not get any sales when you can increase speeds a little all the time and give people a reason to always get the latest modell?
As long as it makes my Internet faster! (Pentium 4 was marketed with promises of faster Internet, also better sound and such if I remember correctly..)
But as the news reads it's the voltage for the RAM, not the CPU, it don't say that they is the same. Shitty motherboard design? Issue with the signals between them?
Except the flashcarts uses the NDS-slot now adays. so this won't stop them. And if it would be as easy as just blocking a key or something such it would probably have been done by now. So I don't see how removing the GBA slot will stop the current piracy alternatives. It will also break a few utilities.
I think it was an issue with size.
Built in ram, bigger screens, SD-card reader, smaller size, something had to go, GBA-slot did.
Also maybe they want to sell GBA games as downloads to SD-card, which don't seem all that weird.
Well, the original NDS isn't region locked and I doubt they won't to ignore the what? 50+ millions? of those sold. So most titles will still be ok. And since we probably don't know all about what kind of software it will run I think it's a little to early to get upset because maybe it won't matter much. Time will tell.
.. oh, btw, I also always wanted to run dual screen, so one 20" 1680x1050 beside this one, which would of course use up even more precious VRAM both for holding the screen buffer but also the larger windows.
Like 1440x900? But yes, I remember how Quake4 all settings high with AA and AF totally destroyed it (like 3 fps vs 40-50 for the 256 MB version.)
In some other cases it didn't mattered so much.
Still I think it's retarded, it would had cost tens of dollars more to put it in, but they ask me for 700 dollars more to get it in my machine because Apple suck and I would also get 1/11:th faster CPU and 40GB more HDD. Fuck that.
Also OS X uses Core Image for window effects, pre-rendered fonts and such stuff, so more VRAM makes more sense even for normal OS use *fires up OpenGL monitor* I'm using 86.824.192 bytes of graphics memory right now, 47.196.928 free. (Running finder, last.fm, adium, x-lite, preview, Opera, VoodooPad, 1password and the opengl monitor.)
I've played around with Apple Aperture and Adobe Lightroom but Aperture is slow like shit and immediatly uses all my VRAM if I bring up the Loupe whereas Lightroom is fast (but probably calculate itss effects in the CPU instead of using the GPU to preview the result in real time.)
So I use Lightroom (and the results may be better there anyway.) Still boring to see Aperture run like shit just because of bad system configuration on Apples part.
I get some sort of popupthingy when scrolling over them in Opera to, can't really figure out what it should be. I wouldn't say the whole page looks bad though, regarding looking bad in IE6 I'd consider that more of a feature than a bug anyway. The less compliance with IE6 the better.
I have a Macbook Pro with the 8600m GT so twice as many stream processors but lower clock, but I would be afraid it would perform worse due to Apples retardness of using 128 MB vram.
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So maybe he has a 720p display, and maybe Sony didn't thought it improved the experience that much to interpolate the image into 1280x720.
Or something.
lol, yeah, for interpolation gives so much better picture quality! That's why I enlarge all my digital photos from 4 mpx to 120 mpx, just look at the quality! Stuning!
Sony could probably easily add it, or if it's that important for you why not get a TV which supports upscaling instead?
Also true for sexbots.
What? I'm the only one looking forward for them?
Why would you need to replace it to get something new?
And I hate people who speaks about picture quality from the size of the screen, how does that matter? In this case it's all about resolution. Color ranges, contrasts and such are other important factors, but the size of the screen?
As long as you sit close enough that you will notice the additional picture quality blu-ray or whatever will offer an improvement. If it's 4" 10 cm from your eyes or 60" 7 meters away doesn't matter.
But basicly it is. Just a little higher clock, more VRAM and new controllers.
Uhm, but current apps run each CPU for each screen, so unless they have something else instead, like a faster single CPU that can't work.
Current one has 33+66 MHz chips, it won't work as good if you just poke one away =P
Yeah, shouldn't entusiast hardware running at general specs outperform the cheaper stuff? In quality that is.
Like, so what if the RAM can run at 1333 MHz with 1.8 volt or whatever someone said, if you are going to use it at 800 MHz and 1.5 volt? It's not like the suggested value ram sold at those specs would be able to run at 1333 MHz with 1.8 volt. Which make them seem like less quality to me.
Manufacturers overclock?
Yeah, so what if it fails physical inspection if it still works as it should!?
And in Intels case they overclock so well I think they are holding back somewhat to get some extra performance if needed in case AMD would release something catching up.
Since people expect performance to increase at a somewhat linear rate why make huge jumps and then not be able to increase them that much longer later and not get any sales when you can increase speeds a little all the time and give people a reason to always get the latest modell?
That sounds cold.
As long as it makes my Internet faster! (Pentium 4 was marketed with promises of faster Internet, also better sound and such if I remember correctly..)
Though, reminds me that i7 DO have the memory controller within the CPU as AMD does it instead of outside the CPU as they have had it until now.
So maybe it do make sense after all.
If it's porn rendered in 0.5 fps on the Dell maybe it will.
But as the news reads it's the voltage for the RAM, not the CPU, it don't say that they is the same. Shitty motherboard design? Issue with the signals between them?
Except the flashcarts uses the NDS-slot now adays. so this won't stop them. And if it would be as easy as just blocking a key or something such it would probably have been done by now. So I don't see how removing the GBA slot will stop the current piracy alternatives. It will also break a few utilities.
I think it was an issue with size.
Built in ram, bigger screens, SD-card reader, smaller size, something had to go, GBA-slot did.
Also maybe they want to sell GBA games as downloads to SD-card, which don't seem all that weird.
Not that it will get that many good commercial titles that region lock would make a difference anyway ...
Little homebrew is region locked =P, though still hacked in so to speak.
Well, the original NDS isn't region locked and I doubt they won't to ignore the what? 50+ millions? of those sold. So most titles will still be ok. And since we probably don't know all about what kind of software it will run I think it's a little to early to get upset because maybe it won't matter much. Time will tell.
.. oh, btw, I also always wanted to run dual screen, so one 20" 1680x1050 beside this one, which would of course use up even more precious VRAM both for holding the screen buffer but also the larger windows.
Like 1440x900? But yes, I remember how Quake4 all settings high with AA and AF totally destroyed it (like 3 fps vs 40-50 for the 256 MB version.)
In some other cases it didn't mattered so much.
Still I think it's retarded, it would had cost tens of dollars more to put it in, but they ask me for 700 dollars more to get it in my machine because Apple suck and I would also get 1/11:th faster CPU and 40GB more HDD. Fuck that.
Also OS X uses Core Image for window effects, pre-rendered fonts and such stuff, so more VRAM makes more sense even for normal OS use
*fires up OpenGL monitor*
I'm using 86.824.192 bytes of graphics memory right now, 47.196.928 free.
(Running finder, last.fm, adium, x-lite, preview, Opera, VoodooPad, 1password and the opengl monitor.)
I've played around with Apple Aperture and Adobe Lightroom but Aperture is slow like shit and immediatly uses all my VRAM if I bring up the Loupe whereas Lightroom is fast (but probably calculate itss effects in the CPU instead of using the GPU to preview the result in real time.)
So I use Lightroom (and the results may be better there anyway.) Still boring to see Aperture run like shit just because of bad system configuration on Apples part.
I so hate them.
lol, sounds like my, "Oh fuck it let's remove all friends using MSN from my adium contact list"-attacks.
I guess that's why I feel so alone :(
How we shouldn't had to go thru it if ISO had just accepted that whatever .doc was the standard already? ;)
I get some sort of popupthingy when scrolling over them in Opera to, can't really figure out what it should be. I wouldn't say the whole page looks bad though, regarding looking bad in IE6 I'd consider that more of a feature than a bug anyway. The less compliance with IE6 the better.
I have a Macbook Pro with the 8600m GT so twice as many stream processors but lower clock, but I would be afraid it would perform worse due to Apples retardness of using 128 MB vram.
Maybe somewhat like the 7800 then? The GS is higher clocked but only have half the stream processors of the GT, but since it's a newer version.
I don't know how they compare, but must be quite similar.
Yeah, I missed that part and hadn't read about it before I posted.
But the 24 months subscription and single provider seems like something one just have to accept or not.
Over here it's very usual with a lock to a network but you always know when you get it and in most cases it's easy to remove so..