No, but I read about it in some thread when I was picking components for a friends new machine. (He won't get that but I guess someone in another thread wanted a passive solution so he was recommended the 9600 GT or something like that.)
Yeah, they seem very cheap for what you get, they have solutions with fans to, which of course will make some noice but on the other hand give an even colder setup vs stock and still run much quiter according to the webpage.
I think they had a CPU cooler which is supposed to handle the CPU with no fan to. Or well, maybe not: http://www.arctic-cooling.com/cpu2.php?idx=162&disc= Fatest one, has a fan, but 120 mm so probably not much noise. Also for up to 160 watt and I don't believe an unclocked Intel is close to that.
Oh well, soon winter, just build your own heatpipe system ventilating out on the balcony;)
Oh, and btw, there exist Micro-ATX-motherboards with HD3200 or HD3300 built-in, those may be good enough for HD-video. Lots of nForce chipset motherboards to. Sure they are socket 775 so for Intel cpus instead of Via but there exist silent cooling solutions for those to. And I guess you could lower the voltage and clock aswell.
Yesterday I read on a forum that the PS3 had problems decoding DivX and such (various and whatever format, in up to HD resolutions I guess) videos when used as a media player, but still it can play BluRay videos and such so it much have decent decoders for the codecs used for BluRay atleast.
Does anyone know why that is? Just shitty software from Sony? I assume they should be able to upgrade it to decent performance if they tried?
(I thought it was obvious so I never said it but also modern graphic cards already do HD-video decoding so this is useless there to, just get a decent graphics card.)
Yeah, I can't understand why anyone would want a crippled Cell. I really doubt they are all that superawesome powerful in the PS3 so why would I want something less powerful in my computer? Also the price will probably be to expensive compared to what you get for the money.
For general computing shouldn't say an Intel Q9550 be a much better choice? Or if I'd really wanted something this specialized why not get whatever Nvidia-card and use their CUDA-stuff?
Where is the market for this card? Sure it may be sad for Toshiba that their Cell-partnership went the way of HD-DVD but.. tough luck.
Yeah one could reason like that but it's so fucking hard to make an application which can record button presses so this huge trade secret must be covered up so no-one else steals the ideas and implementation.
No matter who wins people will still be disappointed and complain on how bad they are. At least that's the situation over here in Sweden.
I guess that's life when no of the candidates is really bad as they probably are in some other countries. It's harder to appreciate it when you take it for granted.
No, since Linux is just the kernel and not a whole operating system for an embedded device there you don't have much space and a selection of software the fact that the kernel it runs is Linux don't make it compatible. If it lacks other important libs and toolkits which the games and software makes use of just "oh but it runs Linux" isn't enough.
I've got the impression the pandora is supposed to run an OS similar or the same as the GP-series of consoles though.
As you can somewhat see from my post my "facts" was from the general impression I've got from reading about the emulators performance, not from first hand knowledge.
It does indeed seem like snemulds is supposed to have better compatibility although may eventually lack some speed instead, and work for most titles. From the wiki: "Current Issues * Some games do not run at full speed. * Some games do not boot at all, see SNES games with special chips for details. * Some games have graphic glitches that range from minor, to making the game unplayable * Certain larger sized roms will not fit into RAM and will not load correctly, if at all."
I have no problems, since I don't use it, but the impression I had got from reading about the emulators was that the game support was mostly hit & miss but it seems like many games should work with snemulds as you said. I guess many of the most popular titles may be affected games due to extra chips and large roms though?
Bull shit, as far as I know there are no good SNES emuls for the DS. Things may have improved somewhat. I don't know how good he genesis or neogeo emulators are either but probably quite limited and lacking support for quite a few titles.
He's probably talking about Opera.
For coding he probably meant "until someone broke it."
Moonshell isn't intended software / usability for the DS from Nintendos perspective, but yes, I agree with you. The DS is a quite nice media player, it even plays XM, S3m and mod, take that Apple!;/
I don't see how the Pandora would flop. I've always got the impression it's a "Oh I'd like to try to make a portable console on my own"-project. If he sells 10, good for him, if he sells 10.000, even better, 100.000, awesome.
I guess the reason he use pre-order is to get enough money to actually produce the first 3.000, or know he'll get the money.
So what would mean a flop? Except if it's never manufactured?
It's not supposed to take over the market, if you don't find it attractive don't buy it, some others will.
And yes, I wanted a Lynx, especially for the trips to my grandmother since it was a long drive and often in the dark and there was nothing to do. The Lynx had backlighting.
Lynx and Gamegear probably mostly failed vs Gameboy for battery life and eventually portability and game quality, but the Pandora don't try to compete with a DS. It's not like they say "hey we'll have better native games than the DS!" All they have is better emulation and a more open system.
Also isn't the gameboy the second or third most successful console in history with over 100 millions sold? Good idea to try to compare anything with that.
The powerfulness got nothing with the Pandora to do, that's just their way of explaining the specs, you shouldn't buy the Pandora because "it will have more advanced and beautiful titles than even the PSP!", because it probably won't you should buy it because it will be able to do a lot of cool stuff and run lots of good old games.
You people just don't get for which people this system is supposed to sell, it's not for your average 10 year old kid, it's for a more mature audiance which belive it would be cool.
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Yeah, just don't buy it if you don't want to accept how it's sold. I for sure wouldn't.
No, but I read about it in some thread when I was picking components for a friends new machine. (He won't get that but I guess someone in another thread wanted a passive solution so he was recommended the 9600 GT or something like that.)
Yeah, they seem very cheap for what you get, they have solutions with fans to, which of course will make some noice but on the other hand give an even colder setup vs stock and still run much quiter according to the webpage.
I think they had a CPU cooler which is supposed to handle the CPU with no fan to. Or well, maybe not:
http://www.arctic-cooling.com/cpu2.php?idx=162&disc=
Fatest one, has a fan, but 120 mm so probably not much noise. Also for up to 160 watt and I don't believe an unclocked Intel is close to that.
Oh well, soon winter, just build your own heatpipe system ventilating out on the balcony ;)
But it can play DivX with any options on?
It's a laptop, so actually I don't know if it's that likely that it does have anything better than a 7800. Possible though.
I was joking about the firearms.
Good exposure for the bullet, and so on =P
Isn't that already what one do more or less with recycling of electronic garbage? More precious minerals than in ore I assume.
As long as everyone turn in their recyclable waste including aluminium foil, cans and whatever I don't really see the problem.
Even the solar panels can be recycled when a better technology turns up :D
No, because macs use EFI so they atleast require special graphics cards. So special cards for this purpose may not be as strange as it sounds.
Oh, and btw, there exist Micro-ATX-motherboards with HD3200 or HD3300 built-in, those may be good enough for HD-video. Lots of nForce chipset motherboards to. Sure they are socket 775 so for Intel cpus instead of Via but there exist silent cooling solutions for those to. And I guess you could lower the voltage and clock aswell.
This won't help for this card, but it would help if you got a regular graphics card instead:
http://www.arctic-cooling.com/vga2.php?idx=147
They have other solutions as well.
Yesterday I read on a forum that the PS3 had problems decoding DivX and such (various and whatever format, in up to HD resolutions I guess) videos when used as a media player, but still it can play BluRay videos and such so it much have decent decoders for the codecs used for BluRay atleast.
Does anyone know why that is? Just shitty software from Sony? I assume they should be able to upgrade it to decent performance if they tried?
This is already 2005s years gadget or something like that. The Cell is not state of the art now.
(I thought it was obvious so I never said it but also modern graphic cards already do HD-video decoding so this is useless there to, just get a decent graphics card.)
Yeah, I can't understand why anyone would want a crippled Cell. I really doubt they are all that superawesome powerful in the PS3 so why would I want something less powerful in my computer?
Also the price will probably be to expensive compared to what you get for the money.
For general computing shouldn't say an Intel Q9550 be a much better choice? Or if I'd really wanted something this specialized why not get whatever Nvidia-card and use their CUDA-stuff?
Where is the market for this card? Sure it may be sad for Toshiba that their Cell-partnership went the way of HD-DVD but.. tough luck.
Yeah one could reason like that but it's so fucking hard to make an application which can record button presses so this huge trade secret must be covered up so no-one else steals the ideas and implementation.
No matter who wins people will still be disappointed and complain on how bad they are. At least that's the situation over here in Sweden.
I guess that's life when no of the candidates is really bad as they probably are in some other countries. It's harder to appreciate it when you take it for granted.
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No, since Linux is just the kernel and not a whole operating system for an embedded device there you don't have much space and a selection of software the fact that the kernel it runs is Linux don't make it compatible. If it lacks other important libs and toolkits which the games and software makes use of just "oh but it runs Linux" isn't enough.
I've got the impression the pandora is supposed to run an OS similar or the same as the GP-series of consoles though.
As you can somewhat see from my post my "facts" was from the general impression I've got from reading about the emulators performance, not from first hand knowledge.
It does indeed seem like snemulds is supposed to have better compatibility although may eventually lack some speed instead, and work for most titles. From the wiki:
"Current Issues
* Some games do not run at full speed.
* Some games do not boot at all, see SNES games with special chips for details.
* Some games have graphic glitches that range from minor, to making the game unplayable
* Certain larger sized roms will not fit into RAM and will not load correctly, if at all."
I have no problems, since I don't use it, but the impression I had got from reading about the emulators was that the game support was mostly hit & miss but it seems like many games should work with snemulds as you said. I guess many of the most popular titles may be affected games due to extra chips and large roms though?
You can get very cheap flashcarts from http://www.dealextreme.com/
Supercard DS One and Acekard would be rather safe choices, thought there are even cheaper ones.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone do, there is some DS emulators out there which is supposed to work fine isn't it?
Bull shit, as far as I know there are no good SNES emuls for the DS. Things may have improved somewhat. I don't know how good he genesis or neogeo emulators are either but probably quite limited and lacking support for quite a few titles.
He's probably talking about Opera.
For coding he probably meant "until someone broke it."
Moonshell isn't intended software / usability for the DS from Nintendos perspective, but yes, I agree with you. The DS is a quite nice media player, it even plays XM, S3m and mod, take that Apple! ;/
I don't see how the Pandora would flop. I've always got the impression it's a "Oh I'd like to try to make a portable console on my own"-project. If he sells 10, good for him, if he sells 10.000, even better, 100.000, awesome.
I guess the reason he use pre-order is to get enough money to actually produce the first 3.000, or know he'll get the money.
So what would mean a flop? Except if it's never manufactured?
It's not supposed to take over the market, if you don't find it attractive don't buy it, some others will.
And yes, I wanted a Lynx, especially for the trips to my grandmother since it was a long drive and often in the dark and there was nothing to do. The Lynx had backlighting.
Lynx and Gamegear probably mostly failed vs Gameboy for battery life and eventually portability and game quality, but the Pandora don't try to compete with a DS. It's not like they say "hey we'll have better native games than the DS!"
All they have is better emulation and a more open system.
Also isn't the gameboy the second or third most successful console in history with over 100 millions sold? Good idea to try to compare anything with that.
The powerfulness got nothing with the Pandora to do, that's just their way of explaining the specs, you shouldn't buy the Pandora because "it will have more advanced and beautiful titles than even the PSP!", because it probably won't you should buy it because it will be able to do a lot of cool stuff and run lots of good old games.
You people just don't get for which people this system is supposed to sell, it's not for your average 10 year old kid, it's for a more mature audiance which belive it would be cool.
Yeah, I understand that it would eventually take up more space with a more comfortable grip. I'd still think I'd take the grip. Get a backpack ;/
But it's still supposed to be rather compatible so who cares who makes it as long as it runs the software you want to run?
Wii 720 would just sound weird.
Wii 720 - Duck hunt?