1. Red Hat is NOT Linux. This threw me for a bit, but after consulting a friend, we came to the conclusion that it is probably OS/2 then.
2. The whole thing is FUD. Why? Well, there are almost as many arguments as there are posters. What's really interesting about this, though, is how many clairvoyant Linux zealots there are out there. I mean, the research hasn't even been published yet - but they know the truth!
The truth is that is embarrassing! I just switched my ATI 9800 Pro for the NVidia 6800 GT. Low and behold, my 9800 Pro performs *way* better in City of Heroes and The Sims 2 than the 6800GT! No, it is not a joke. I easily run 1280 * 1024, all default settings, in CoH on my ATI, but with 6800 GT I have to pull particle -depth is it?--down to half of the default and run at 1152 * 964--and I still don't have the same perf as with the 9800 Pro! Granted, Doom 3 and Far Cry run a lot better on the NVidia 6800GT than on the 9800 Pro, but, still, I thought that Open GL was the big advantage of the NVidia? The real problem starts when a lot of "spells" happen at the same time (in City of Heroes, that is). By spells I mean a lot of super-power particle effects.. No matter what, I'm NOT impressed with the GT. I read Hard OCP's review, but I can't believe that they missed out on this; I don't know what the ATI X800 is like, but I can only imagine that it is waaaaay better than NVidia as far as City of Heroes goes....
I reserve myself of flaming retards.. I'm only posting my own experience.
The rest of my machine is as follows..
3.0@800 P4 CPU (OC to 3.4, and no, it's better than leaving @3.0) 1GB 3400 RAM ASUS P4 800 Deluxe MB 2*80GB striped SATA drives (and don't tell me this matters, I have SCSI as well, but it doesn't make enough of a difference for my game machine except for load times).
Yeah, and what's that going to cost in the U.S.?
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I moved to the US from Europe a couple of years ago and was absolutely shocked when I saw the monthly costs for broadband over here. I pay ~$50 a month for Comcast internet (3Mbps/256Kbps) today. I have friends in Europe that pay less for 8Mbps/8Mbps, including static IPs. Sure, speakeasy.net offer 6Mbps/768Kbps--for $100 a month! One can only imagine what the price for, say, 100Mbit would be here in the U.S...
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Does anyone know if there's a technical reason for the exceedingly high costs here in the U.S?
I've got several people at work using the M200 and they're loving it. I've also used it myself and it's awesome. It's got great battery life, it's light and it's got the best screen of the bunch out there. I think a hybrid's the way to go as it can be used both as a regular laptop and as a tablet when you're taking notes. The only downside to the M200 is that is doesn't have a built in CD/DVD drive, but if you can live without that it's great.
I read that several people had problems with crashing applications/OS, but that's something I've never heard any of the people I know have complained about (could just be their luck, what do I know).
It'll be interesting to see how this migration affects the Linux world. In theory, this should help speed up fixing certain usability issues, and it will certainly help push compatibility between MS Office and open source office applications.
And I do believe you've overlooked some detail yourself, fm6. I haven't seen one software company out there without the agenda of making money. Do you really think there are companies out there making software for free that are going to make it all the way in the long run? Look at Red Hat for instance, they've abandoned the idea of free software because it doesn't pay (yes, they still have free software but it's not ready for release). The same could be said for Mandrake Soft, my favorite Linux distro--the good updates are available to subsribers way ahead of time. But, don't get me wrong, I like the competition, but if we're going to play, let's play fair.
I don't care what you say about Microsoft...
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...but this is no better. We always give M$ a hard time about everything, but let's not forget that any company found in the same position can act just as badly. It's hard being on top and not step into the same tracks.
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You could hardly call it education if less than 1% of the earth's population is using it. That would be like trying to teach democracy in the U.S.
You mean kind of like how anyone buying coffee from McDonalds should be able to figure out that it's going to be hot?
1. Red Hat is NOT Linux. This threw me for a bit, but after consulting a friend, we came to the conclusion that it is probably OS/2 then.
2. The whole thing is FUD. Why? Well, there are almost as many arguments as there are posters. What's really interesting about this, though, is how many clairvoyant Linux zealots there are out there. I mean, the research hasn't even been published yet - but they know the truth!
The truth is that is embarrassing! I just switched my ATI 9800 Pro for the NVidia 6800 GT. Low and behold, my 9800 Pro performs *way* better in City of Heroes and The Sims 2 than the 6800GT! No, it is not a joke. I easily run 1280 * 1024, all default settings, in CoH on my ATI, but with 6800 GT I have to pull particle -depth is it?--down to half of the default and run at 1152 * 964--and I still don't have the same perf as with the 9800 Pro! Granted, Doom 3 and Far Cry run a lot better on the NVidia 6800GT than on the 9800 Pro, but, still, I thought that Open GL was the big advantage of the NVidia? The real problem starts when a lot of "spells" happen at the same time (in City of Heroes, that is). By spells I mean a lot of super-power particle effects.. No matter what, I'm NOT impressed with the GT. I read Hard OCP's review, but I can't believe that they missed out on this; I don't know what the ATI X800 is like, but I can only imagine that it is waaaaay better than NVidia as far as City of Heroes goes....
I reserve myself of flaming retards.. I'm only posting my own experience.
The rest of my machine is as follows..
3.0@800 P4 CPU (OC to 3.4, and no, it's better than leaving @3.0)
1GB 3400 RAM
ASUS P4 800 Deluxe MB
2*80GB striped SATA drives (and don't tell me this matters, I have SCSI as well, but it doesn't make enough of a difference for my game machine except for load times).
I moved to the US from Europe a couple of years ago and was absolutely shocked when I saw the monthly costs for broadband over here. I pay ~$50 a month for Comcast internet (3Mbps/256Kbps) today. I have friends in Europe that pay less for 8Mbps/8Mbps, including static IPs. Sure, speakeasy.net offer 6Mbps/768Kbps--for $100 a month! One can only imagine what the price for, say, 100Mbit would be here in the U.S...
P.S. Does anyone know if there's a technical reason for the exceedingly high costs here in the U.S?
... the programmer giveth then taketh away.
As harddrive manufacturers add to the storage capacity of the drives MS innovates in occupying more of that space. :-)
I've got several people at work using the M200 and they're loving it. I've also used it myself and it's awesome. It's got great battery life, it's light and it's got the best screen of the bunch out there. I think a hybrid's the way to go as it can be used both as a regular laptop and as a tablet when you're taking notes. The only downside to the M200 is that is doesn't have a built in CD/DVD drive, but if you can live without that it's great.
I read that several people had problems with crashing applications/OS, but that's something I've never heard any of the people I know have complained about (could just be their luck, what do I know).
It'll be interesting to see how this migration affects the Linux world. In theory, this should help speed up fixing certain usability issues, and it will certainly help push compatibility between MS Office and open source office applications.
And I do believe you've overlooked some detail yourself, fm6. I haven't seen one software company out there without the agenda of making money. Do you really think there are companies out there making software for free that are going to make it all the way in the long run? Look at Red Hat for instance, they've abandoned the idea of free software because it doesn't pay (yes, they still have free software but it's not ready for release). The same could be said for Mandrake Soft, my favorite Linux distro--the good updates are available to subsribers way ahead of time. But, don't get me wrong, I like the competition, but if we're going to play, let's play fair.
...but this is no better. We always give M$ a hard time about everything, but let's not forget that any company found in the same position can act just as badly. It's hard being on top and not step into the same tracks.