I'm not sure what you mean by only wired connections before, I used VBox on my laptop and had it sharing a wireless connection as well. On the VM it showed up as wired, but I don't think that's what you meant.
Really? Most reviews of their PSUs have them with pretty good ratings, and their PSUs are pretty power efficient too. I have their EarthWatts 500 PSU and it's really good, my GPU technically requires 550W but it's fine. I've never heard of any bad things about Antec before, the worst ones are the ones from Best Buy et al that have some random company you've never heard of.
That's a gross exaggeration, I'm an engineering major but planning on taking a couple Econ classes for general ed credit, and the ones I'm planning on taking are upper division classes and require Multivariable Calculus. Of course, from what I've heard from other students, engineers find Econ easy because it's just math to them, whereas the Business majors who don't have quite as good a grasp on the math find it challenging, but they still have to take the calculus prerequisites before they take the class.
Yeah, I have seen that occasionally too. I did manage to get it to hit 1.2GB once by running a genetic algorithm javascript app for half an hour or so, at which point it just died, but I think the ballooning has been better with Firefox 3 overall than previous versions. And again, 3.1 betas and nightlies show a definite improvement in that regard as well, so they're on the right track.
Actually, they weren't. The original Longhorn codebase got dumped because it was too resource intensive/not practical, or something like that, so they restarted around 2005 with the Server 2003 codebase.
It's not nearly as fast though, and IIRC it's not a live preview. I used that for a while in XP, and then switched to TaskSwitchXP because it does nicer previews, and can refresh them at a specified rate, but even that's not live. In Vista, if you're playing a video in VLC or something on youtube, you can actually watch the video play while using alt-tab if you really wanted. That's not so useful by itself, but when applications are written using those APIs it becomes pretty useful. For example OnTopReplica lets you make an always-on-top glassified live preview window of any window you want, which is a pretty useful thing to have. As a side note, I find codeplex.com to be incredibly bizarre, "Microsoft's open source project hosting site" kind of screams "It's a trap" but I guess they're improving on that end too.
150MB isn't even that much for Firefox these days. Occasionally Firefox would balloon to 300MB on my system. Firefox 3 helped significantly with that, and if you're willing to run beta software I'd advise you to check out 3.1 beta 2 or a nightly build, they've reduced memory usage even further and it's also noticeably faster.
Eff, I misclicked the moderation system. There should really be an "Are you sure you want to mod this post X" thing on the dropdown, it's way too easy to misclick.
I know what PCMark is, and PCMark is as much of a synthetic benchmark as 3DMark. Neither of them can be considered measures of real-world performance, but they try to approximate real-world performance. On the other hand, benchmarks from actual games are more indicative of real-world performance. I'm not sure why this guy's SP1 performance is slower than RTM, but most other benchmarks show the opposite.
I agree about the smartphones, for me they seem to be a lot better suited to the netbook style task than netbooks themselves. The N97 looks amazing. I think Apple could probably do something with their iPhone OS on a netbook type device if they wanted to, but the profit margins on those things are not what Apple is used to, I would guess.
I'm not sure what tablet PCs have to do with anything though, that's completely unrelated. I don't know whether he was talking about the slate-style tablet PCs only but these days I see a lot of convertible tablets on campus, primarily HP's TX line of cheap tablet PCs. I own one myself and I can say that if that's what Jobs was talking about, he was dead wrong, because the convertible tablet form factor is probably going to eventually become the dominant type of laptop after Windows 7 comes out with even more touchscreen integration.
No problem, I don't go around clearing up misconceptions for mod points, and in any case I've got excellent karma, or something. In any case I appear to have gotten modded up anyway, so whoo.
Exactly, the reason they're called "net"books is because they're basically sufficient for browsing the internet and checking email, and not a whole lot more, and thus are cheap. And I think unofficially, netbooks top out at 10" whereas the Air is a 13" size, which really isn't any more portable than other 13" laptops besides the thinness.
Not quite, they sold ultraportables, and ultraportables aren't really the same as netbooks. The thing is, ultraportables have been around for a while but they've always carried a price premium over regular laptops. They've also always used highly optimized/ultra low voltage versions of standard laptop CPUs, and specialized components. Netbooks use cut down versions of processors and cut other corners to achieve a low price. The small size is kind of a lucky side effect of using LCDs designed for those portable DVD players that no one buys.
Umm, whatever you do, don't pay retail for Windows. Get OEM if you're building a new system, and I think upgrading an older system is honestly a bad idea. I believe right now Windows Vista Ultimate OEM is around $160 on newegg or so.
Probably, although until recently most OEM systems weren't 64 bit. Although technically you are wrong about the number of native 64 bit games, I'm pretty sure all Source engine games run in 64 bit natively, which is already more than 5. In fact, I think the first game to have a native 64 bit executable was Far Cry, albeit with a patch, and that's fairly old in terms of games.
You know how often I see an OSX machine with a problem? Almost never and when it does have one it's always something like a head crash on the hard drive or a bad power supply or something like that.
Software problems with OSX? I have seen one and it was not even a problem with the OS, but rather it was a problem with third party software computability.
I'm not sure how much of that is tongue in cheek, but every problem I've seen with Windows XP or Vista has been either a hardware or third party software related problem. That's not really saying much, since unlike Apple, Microsoft doesn't control all the parts of the machine, and they really can't due to their monopoly status.
Umm, actually Microsoft requires 64 bit drivers for WHQL certification. I should know, I've been running Vista x64 for over a year and I've had no problems with drivers. That might be because I built the computer from new hardware last year, but I don't think anyone should be installing Vista, let alone Vista x64, on hardware from before Vista was released.
Umm, that's nearly two years old. Initially Vista performance was worse primarily because of crappy driver support, especially on the part of nVidia, which has been well documented. Benchmarks done a year after release found Vista and XP roughly equal, with Vista occasionally beating XP.
To be fair, neither did Apple, Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc. It was only when the EeePC became obviously popular that everyone decided to jump on the bandwagon, although Apple has yet to do so.
Yeah, seriously. I don't understand why notepad can't do that. They really just don't care, I guess. I would love it if they could fix that for Windows 7, or hell just patch it for all versions of Windows but that would be asking too much... the only thing Notepad has going for it is that it starts up faster than anything else.
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I'm not sure what you mean by only wired connections before, I used VBox on my laptop and had it sharing a wireless connection as well. On the VM it showed up as wired, but I don't think that's what you meant.
Really? Most reviews of their PSUs have them with pretty good ratings, and their PSUs are pretty power efficient too. I have their EarthWatts 500 PSU and it's really good, my GPU technically requires 550W but it's fine. I've never heard of any bad things about Antec before, the worst ones are the ones from Best Buy et al that have some random company you've never heard of.
I'd like to add that Starcraft rocks too, and is fairly cheap. AoE II does have more of the historical bent to it though. Both games are excellent.
That's a gross exaggeration, I'm an engineering major but planning on taking a couple Econ classes for general ed credit, and the ones I'm planning on taking are upper division classes and require Multivariable Calculus. Of course, from what I've heard from other students, engineers find Econ easy because it's just math to them, whereas the Business majors who don't have quite as good a grasp on the math find it challenging, but they still have to take the calculus prerequisites before they take the class.
Yeah, I have seen that occasionally too. I did manage to get it to hit 1.2GB once by running a genetic algorithm javascript app for half an hour or so, at which point it just died, but I think the ballooning has been better with Firefox 3 overall than previous versions. And again, 3.1 betas and nightlies show a definite improvement in that regard as well, so they're on the right track.
Off topic, but that was a great game, even if back then I was a bit young and sucked at it.
Actually, they weren't. The original Longhorn codebase got dumped because it was too resource intensive/not practical, or something like that, so they restarted around 2005 with the Server 2003 codebase.
It's not nearly as fast though, and IIRC it's not a live preview. I used that for a while in XP, and then switched to TaskSwitchXP because it does nicer previews, and can refresh them at a specified rate, but even that's not live. In Vista, if you're playing a video in VLC or something on youtube, you can actually watch the video play while using alt-tab if you really wanted. That's not so useful by itself, but when applications are written using those APIs it becomes pretty useful. For example OnTopReplica lets you make an always-on-top glassified live preview window of any window you want, which is a pretty useful thing to have. As a side note, I find codeplex.com to be incredibly bizarre, "Microsoft's open source project hosting site" kind of screams "It's a trap" but I guess they're improving on that end too.
150MB isn't even that much for Firefox these days. Occasionally Firefox would balloon to 300MB on my system. Firefox 3 helped significantly with that, and if you're willing to run beta software I'd advise you to check out 3.1 beta 2 or a nightly build, they've reduced memory usage even further and it's also noticeably faster.
Eff, I misclicked the moderation system. There should really be an "Are you sure you want to mod this post X" thing on the dropdown, it's way too easy to misclick.
I know what PCMark is, and PCMark is as much of a synthetic benchmark as 3DMark. Neither of them can be considered measures of real-world performance, but they try to approximate real-world performance. On the other hand, benchmarks from actual games are more indicative of real-world performance. I'm not sure why this guy's SP1 performance is slower than RTM, but most other benchmarks show the opposite.
I agree about the smartphones, for me they seem to be a lot better suited to the netbook style task than netbooks themselves. The N97 looks amazing. I think Apple could probably do something with their iPhone OS on a netbook type device if they wanted to, but the profit margins on those things are not what Apple is used to, I would guess.
I'm not sure what tablet PCs have to do with anything though, that's completely unrelated. I don't know whether he was talking about the slate-style tablet PCs only but these days I see a lot of convertible tablets on campus, primarily HP's TX line of cheap tablet PCs. I own one myself and I can say that if that's what Jobs was talking about, he was dead wrong, because the convertible tablet form factor is probably going to eventually become the dominant type of laptop after Windows 7 comes out with even more touchscreen integration.
No problem, I don't go around clearing up misconceptions for mod points, and in any case I've got excellent karma, or something. In any case I appear to have gotten modded up anyway, so whoo.
Exactly, the reason they're called "net"books is because they're basically sufficient for browsing the internet and checking email, and not a whole lot more, and thus are cheap. And I think unofficially, netbooks top out at 10" whereas the Air is a 13" size, which really isn't any more portable than other 13" laptops besides the thinness.
Yeah, that's definitely true. I was just being a little pedantic, I realize you were exaggerating.
Not quite, they sold ultraportables, and ultraportables aren't really the same as netbooks. The thing is, ultraportables have been around for a while but they've always carried a price premium over regular laptops. They've also always used highly optimized/ultra low voltage versions of standard laptop CPUs, and specialized components. Netbooks use cut down versions of processors and cut other corners to achieve a low price. The small size is kind of a lucky side effect of using LCDs designed for those portable DVD players that no one buys.
No, I am not just making things up.
Umm, whatever you do, don't pay retail for Windows. Get OEM if you're building a new system, and I think upgrading an older system is honestly a bad idea. I believe right now Windows Vista Ultimate OEM is around $160 on newegg or so.
Probably, although until recently most OEM systems weren't 64 bit. Although technically you are wrong about the number of native 64 bit games, I'm pretty sure all Source engine games run in 64 bit natively, which is already more than 5. In fact, I think the first game to have a native 64 bit executable was Far Cry, albeit with a patch, and that's fairly old in terms of games.
I'm not sure how much of that is tongue in cheek, but every problem I've seen with Windows XP or Vista has been either a hardware or third party software related problem. That's not really saying much, since unlike Apple, Microsoft doesn't control all the parts of the machine, and they really can't due to their monopoly status.
Umm, actually Microsoft requires 64 bit drivers for WHQL certification. I should know, I've been running Vista x64 for over a year and I've had no problems with drivers. That might be because I built the computer from new hardware last year, but I don't think anyone should be installing Vista, let alone Vista x64, on hardware from before Vista was released.
Umm, that's nearly two years old. Initially Vista performance was worse primarily because of crappy driver support, especially on the part of nVidia, which has been well documented. Benchmarks done a year after release found Vista and XP roughly equal, with Vista occasionally beating XP.
To be fair, neither did Apple, Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc. It was only when the EeePC became obviously popular that everyone decided to jump on the bandwagon, although Apple has yet to do so.
Yeah, seriously. I don't understand why notepad can't do that. They really just don't care, I guess. I would love it if they could fix that for Windows 7, or hell just patch it for all versions of Windows but that would be asking too much... the only thing Notepad has going for it is that it starts up faster than anything else.
Yeah, notepad fails on files over several megabytes. Notepad++ ftw.