Posts by pigdog

Widescreens as a rule of thumb have better view angles and dark colors. View angles, if you ask me, is the most annoying thing about laptop screens, not response rates. I used to have a laptop with a regular 4:3 screen and I have to say...

The Dell 9100 is the only portable computer that's comparable to an average new desktop computer in gaming performance.. but that thing is HUGE: 9 pounds heavy and 2 inches thick, which doesn't even really qualify it as a...

I suppose you'd need to make the WLAN the default connection, and add a static route to the XBox through regular LAN. But I can't remember off the top of my head how... Check the "route" command.

Does DisplayMate really support the second monitor?

I'm thinking about buying a "new" used 21" CRT monitor for my gaming desktop. Unfortunately, the dealers specializing in used monitors never seem to have a decent computer with a quality video card that could be used to...

The bottom line is there's not much difference.

Get Firefox. Its popup blocker does work better, and it's recommended for a reason. See here for IE6's currently existing security holes, including those that are so far unpatched by SP2 and hotfixes.

All games "support" widescreen. At worst case you either get black banding around the 4:3 ratio picture, or a stretched image (which is really not as bad as I'd thought to be honest), but in general games don't care what kind...

1.5 Banias 512 MB PC2700 64 MB MR 9600 @ 415/239 MHz 771 3DMarks Looks like 128 megs of VRAM makes a huge difference here, way more than with today's real games

Quote: Originally Posted by nark whats the power consumption of a dothan? 21.5watts? Yes. Surprisingly, a 2.0 Dothan consumes less power than a 1.5 Banias. All the data can be seen at...