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Quote: Originally Posted by DJRumpy No need. There are hundreds of thousands of samples of 3GS photo's online. They don't suffer from such bad compression or jaggies, and you can control blow-out by touching a properly exposed portion of the phot…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Accoridng to an AI article the Nvidia 320M does support Pure Video HD so Full-Profile Blu-ray and HD-DVD decoding is possible. If you can find me a 9.5mm ultra-slim slot-loading Blu-ray drive that works wi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DJRumpy These are not good photo's. The first looks overly compressed with too much noise in the darker areas. The brighter areas are blown out, and the fine lines in the ceiling tracing have the jaggies or compression…
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Quote: Originally Posted by WelshDog So it seems. However, a really good BluRay player cost several hundreds of dollars. Adding a BluRay drive to the Mini would work, but the video output quality would surely be lacking. No room for the necess…
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Quote: Originally Posted by str1f3 This will never be as good as dedicated device. What many fail to understand though is that 95% of the people are never going to use the features inside those cameras so the end result will look as good as if it…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ThePimento The reason the photos are washed out (the sky mainly) is probably because these were taken mid-day or early afternoon, which all photographers know is not a good time to take pictures. I'd like to see some t…
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They remind me of what my LG Dare (which has a Schneider-Kreuznach lens) or Pre Plus (uses DxO image processing to automatically adjust the image) can do; good, but no where near a dSLR folks.
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Quote: Originally Posted by stevegmu I have a 10 year old iBook that can handle e-mail, web-surfing and typing documents without a problem. It can even play games. I'll wager the average computer user does no more with their machines. I imagine a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by BDBLACK Just too expensive. Nobody wants to pay that kind of money for a stand alone desktop. $100 less and maybe it would be worth it. For what you would spend on a base mac mini and 24 inch apple display, you could j…
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 Remember Core 2 might be EOL but it's replacements aren't all that wonderful. Given that Apple can up the click rate a bit the actual single thread performance won't be all that different from Arrandale. A…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lowededwookie Yes but like I said, with Valve helping Apple to develop the drivers this will be an inevitability. Valve's games still play awesomely on my MacBook Pro compared to EA's Cider wrapped DirectX games. I see…
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Quote: Originally Posted by lowededwookie DirectX sucks. It's a complete joke. The problem with many Mac titles is that there isn't actually a port to the Mac it's a wrapped DirectX game that has to translate on the fly to OpenGL hence the perfor…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss How is it different for Steam to install a game as opposed to downloading and doing it yourself? Why do you need Steam to uninstall it? Sorry, but this concept is not clear to me. Steam is DRM.
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Quote: Originally Posted by SSquirrel Open CL doesn't have 2.0 come out till 2012 and 1.1 was supposed to be first half of 2010, but I can't find anything showing it has been released yet. So currently anyone who supports 1.0 is current The Ra…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SSquirrel OpenCL is a large part of the reason you won't see the i3 in there, if they can't squeeze a discrete GPU in there. The iX series can't have NVIDIA IGPs and the g[u (at least in the i3, not sure about the oth…
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I see Apple mimicking the recent 13" MB and MBP, but I don't see why they couldn't fit at least an i3 in there, I don't think the space/thermal requirements as as critical. But I don't think it will be anything less than ordinary, to keep inventory …
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism His example is complete bollocks. It's a Canvas example, that is only small feature of HTML5, that is newer and less developed, that doesn't WebGL incorporated yet, and that he designed to push your CPU just …
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell This is completley wrong. Firefox, Chrome, and Opera all support HTML5. They just don't support all of the extensions that Safari supports. Some of Apple's 'demos' use specific Webkit elements, not really a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by foad Look people. There are parts of the HTML5 spec that only Safari currently supports. Both Firefox and Chrome are behind, hence the requirement for Safari. THe Chrome & Firefox developers should speed up the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Lemon Bon Bon. Dripping with irony from a Mac Mini owner. Give it a Radeon 4850 as a mere £50 upgrade and it would fly. But no...Apple want us to pay £2000 for an entry Mac Pro with a proportionately crapper gpu capa…