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I'm 37 and I play games just about every day. So do most of my friends. We're all avid computer users and all gamers. We are probably somewhat of an exception, but not entirely. More people play games than you realize. Furthermore, these teen…
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[quote]Originally posted by Spart: My personal guess...up to 1.4GHz (give or take < 100MHz) (insert processor of your choice here)'s on nForce2 mobo, shipping with nVidia GeForce4 Ti standard, and next gen nVidia chip/Radeon 9700 BTO option.…
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[quote]Originally posted by Lemon Bon Bon: "ZDNet has the bad news that AMD is still hemorrhaging money at an alarming rate. Losses this quarter are $184.9 Million, compared to a profit of $17.4 million last year. Their revenue dropped from $985 mi…
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Settle down folks, everyone is entitled to their own opion, no matter how wrong they may be. I am new to the platform, I just bought my first Powerbook last month. I've been on PCs for about 12 years. My Dell Inspiron went on eBay today. …
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[quote]Originally posted by Kecksy: If you look at the current state of Apple hardware, it's apparent that Motorola doesn't give a dam about Apple's needs. If Motorola won't build Apple a competitive desktop CPU, then Apple needs to take its bus…
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[quote]Originally posted by arbitrary: Are you serious? Or was that supposed to be ironic? After the 500->450 debacle, and the subsequent 500Mhz stall, I'd bet dollars to donuts SJ would have gotten out of that dead end THEN, let alon…
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[quote]Originally posted by Programmer: Wow, there's a lot of bad information flying around in this thread! - All of the Athlon/Operton and Pentium2-4 designs use a decoder which translates x86 instructions into internal "micro-ops" that are the…
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[quote]Originally posted by zaz: Half a decade and, no, probably not. Firstly, they have never buil tone from ground up..it has always been an x86 clone of sorts. Second, they will want to focus on their current x86 market. They are already t…
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[quote]Originally posted by jdbon: Well if AMD cannot modify its current chips, how long would it take if AMD developed a PPC chip from scratch (and would they still be interested)? It would take a year or two for them to get the engineering imp…
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[quote]Originally posted by mac phd: I'm pretty sure that the AMD chips now use a form of x86 translation, layered on top of a basically RISC-y core. Not the same as what Transmeta does though. So conceivably, that same core could be used with a …
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[quote]Originally posted by jdbon: First: The "its fast enough"does not hold water. In fact, with Apples current direction they need all the cpu power they can get! They really want to make inroads the cinematic world as well as the sciences, two a…
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[quote]Originally posted by hmurchison: Speed is overrated. Stability is the #1 issue affecting the majority of Computer users today. Analogy...ever received a speeding ticket? Bet you wished that you kept a steady and lawful pace rather than g…
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AMD and Apple need each other. AMD has great processors but is not taken seriously in the business world. The upcoming Hammer line (Opteron and Athlon) will both be 64bit chips that are backward compatible with 32 bit applications. Intel has a …
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No matter how good the handwriting translation is, the format is fundamentally flawed. While note taking is fine, no one can print as fast as they can type (assuming a modicum of training). This relegates the device to being an add on, not a rep…
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Microsoft has been selling the new tablet PC's by discounting handwriting recognition, which to me just justifies my thoughts that this technology is not mature enough. They seem to think that merely capturing the input as a graphics file, that wil…