I have a C2D MacBook Pro and I clearly notice some grain in gradients like those in the window titles, but nothing that eye accomodation won't solve in seconds - not so much the case with the generally uneven lighting, which IMHO a much worse problem than the dithering... colors in the lower and center regions of my screen are noticeably different, and I believe that might mess things up for people who do photo editing when they're working with images that have similar colors. All PowerBooks I've come around seem great in this aspect (and they also seem to be more robust and better built than MBPs, but I digress.)
If the lawsuit has Apple trading my MBP's monitor for one that's marginally better, I'm all for it. But they really should concentrate on pragmatic stuff, rather than something that's more of a technically than anything else.
That being said, I have never found a monitor that could manage to put out such a bright and vibrant image as this one (having a consumer-grade external monitor connected to the Mac has always given me headaches since the MBPs monitor is so different,) so I could imagine the color output is still pretty good anyway.
Doom. It's a simple game, lots of new maps and addons are still being made for it, and with source ports such as ZDoom or Doomsday, a whole new life is being breathed into it.
No, not at all. That made no sense. I wouldn't be too surprised if you bought a Nintendo 64 just for the publicity.
When we talk about the difference between 32 and 64 bits, we are generally referring to the size of the largest unit of data the processor treats at each moment (ie. the word size). 64 bit processors, IMHO, currently have only one real advantage over 32 bit ones, which is the exponentially larger addressing space, but this isn't really urgent seeing as the RAM limit for 32 bit architectures is 8 GB and we still have a couple of years ahead before desktops starting having this much memory.
Manufacturers try to make customers overlook the fallacy that just because you have a bigger number, the performance will rise accordingly. It's the same with clock frequency. Many other factors are on trial, such as the strategies employed for pipelining or branch prediction and if these aren't engineered properly, there's no real benefit in being able to process more data. Furthermore, as the grandparent said, 64 bit datapaths basically imply more electronics, and longer paths take longer to cross; thus, a compromise must be taken between all those factors.
This was said before, but to say something like this sounds like a marketing attack.
How could one find these laptops to be underpowered? Either:
1. You know you paid $100 for it, so you couldn't expect much anyway! (Even if you paid $200 because you live in a western country) 2. You never had access to a computer before - let alone a (n extremely) portable one - and you'll astounded at how much stuff you can do.
Even disregarding this, these things should be impressive machines for what they're worth; they run Linux, which is a tremendous platform for doing stuff your way. I bet a quite nice hacking community will form around them.
The people at Sun who were projecting the Network Computer some eight years ago are probably having a warm fuzzy feeling in their bellies right now:P
It's possible that it's not MS's fault. AFAIK hardware companies usually get their PSU supplied by specialized manufacturers, like with laptops (I've never seen two Acer Travelmates with power supplies built by the same company). My guess is that they'll move on to better equipment, and that the units they used while testing were OK.
(However, I do recall reading here on/. that prior to the launch, XBox 360s in exbihit cases were a bit faulty...)
An asshole Christian fundemental lawyer who acts as if he believes that violence in videogames is solely responsible for violence in America.
Although I might agree with the POV of the parent, it's not really informative (rather insightful) when it's this opinionated...
... you can get the CVS version of Cedega/Wine/X for free and build it yourself (or better yet, have a nice shell script automate the process of wgetting and building it for you -- you still have to configure the app yourself). AFAIK it's not updated to 5.0, but it's probably worth the trouble.
Check out http://winecvs.linux-gamers.net/index.php/Main_Pag e
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That would be biology, not physics.
I have a C2D MacBook Pro and I clearly notice some grain in gradients like those in the window titles, but nothing that eye accomodation won't solve in seconds - not so much the case with the generally uneven lighting, which IMHO a much worse problem than the dithering... colors in the lower and center regions of my screen are noticeably different, and I believe that might mess things up for people who do photo editing when they're working with images that have similar colors. All PowerBooks I've come around seem great in this aspect (and they also seem to be more robust and better built than MBPs, but I digress.)
If the lawsuit has Apple trading my MBP's monitor for one that's marginally better, I'm all for it. But they really should concentrate on pragmatic stuff, rather than something that's more of a technically than anything else.
That being said, I have never found a monitor that could manage to put out such a bright and vibrant image as this one (having a consumer-grade external monitor connected to the Mac has always given me headaches since the MBPs monitor is so different,) so I could imagine the color output is still pretty good anyway.
The startup's name isn't BitBoys!
Doom. It's a simple game, lots of new maps and addons are still being made for it, and with source ports such as ZDoom or Doomsday, a whole new life is being breathed into it.
I guess this might be it: http://www.gpgpu.org/
How about... Internet Explorer Live: AJAX web browser you can run under Mozilla Firefox :P
Shudder? Howcome? Linux isn't hardcore enough? :P
Oh, yeah, ok. I should've said "AFAIK" rather than "IMHO" :)
No, not at all. That made no sense. I wouldn't be too surprised if you bought a Nintendo 64 just for the publicity.
When we talk about the difference between 32 and 64 bits, we are generally referring to the size of the largest unit of data the processor treats at each moment (ie. the word size). 64 bit processors, IMHO, currently have only one real advantage over 32 bit ones, which is the exponentially larger addressing space, but this isn't really urgent seeing as the RAM limit for 32 bit architectures is 8 GB and we still have a couple of years ahead before desktops starting having this much memory.
Manufacturers try to make customers overlook the fallacy that just because you have a bigger number, the performance will rise accordingly. It's the same with clock frequency. Many other factors are on trial, such as the strategies employed for pipelining or branch prediction and if these aren't engineered properly, there's no real benefit in being able to process more data. Furthermore, as the grandparent said, 64 bit datapaths basically imply more electronics, and longer paths take longer to cross; thus, a compromise must be taken between all those factors.
This was said before, but to say something like this sounds like a marketing attack.
:P
How could one find these laptops to be underpowered? Either:
1. You know you paid $100 for it, so you couldn't expect much anyway! (Even if you paid $200 because you live in a western country)
2. You never had access to a computer before - let alone a (n extremely) portable one - and you'll astounded at how much stuff you can do.
Even disregarding this, these things should be impressive machines for what they're worth; they run Linux, which is a tremendous platform for doing stuff your way. I bet a quite nice hacking community will form around them.
The people at Sun who were projecting the Network Computer some eight years ago are probably having a warm fuzzy feeling in their bellies right now
This is definitely the most effective political statement ever. "We'll smash one just for fun! EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE FUN!"
It's possible that it's not MS's fault. AFAIK hardware companies usually get their PSU supplied by specialized manufacturers, like with laptops (I've never seen two Acer Travelmates with power supplies built by the same company). My guess is that they'll move on to better equipment, and that the units they used while testing were OK. (However, I do recall reading here on /. that prior to the launch, XBox 360s in exbihit cases were a bit faulty...)
An asshole Christian fundemental lawyer who acts as if he believes that violence in videogames is solely responsible for violence in America. Although I might agree with the POV of the parent, it's not really informative (rather insightful) when it's this opinionated...
... you can get the CVS version of Cedega/Wine/X for free and build it yourself (or better yet, have a nice shell script automate the process of wgetting and building it for you -- you still have to configure the app yourself). AFAIK it's not updated to 5.0, but it's probably worth the trouble. Check out http://winecvs.linux-gamers.net/index.php/Main_Pag e