Posts by Entropius

A friend of mine has a G3 iBook with a dead CPU. Does anyone know where we could find a replacement CPU and/or CPU+motherboard combination to resuscitate the machine?

Yeah, but I need hardware accelerated OpenGL (under Linux) for some custom rendering code. And ATi's drivers choke on some of the OpenGL calls.

I've not played FEAR, but you can probably find a benchmark for it somewhere. I do know that the graphics card in it (Geforce Go 7700) is the fastest you can get in less than a 17" machine. All the games I've thrown at it it runs...

The A8Js/A8Jp is a wonderful machine -- I'm typing on one. I recommend it.

In the general opinion of the forum posters, brands that are very trustworthy: Asus Compal Apple IBM/Lenovo Moderately trustworthy brands: Hewlett-Packard Toshiba Quanta Sony (but with a reputation for being...

I got mine from c9tech, no complaints, and Sasha's always willing to answer email about machines and prices and whatnot.

I've never heard of that Asus model. You can get a different and much better Asus model for a similar price to the Dell, though -- see if you can get a Z71A or one of the A8 budget models.

The Asus A8js is 14.1" and has the same graphics card as the G1; it's even lighter. Runs NWN2 fine on medium detail; should handle Oblivion fairly well too. Many other games it eats up and spits out: Guild Wars runs at constant...

Quote: Originally Posted by Psychokitty I'm confused. Are you suggesting that larger screens use up significantly more battery energy, or not? They do use more.

What it does is to allow people to run code on your computer that no other program, and thus *you*, can't examine. It's a cryptography chip that is supposed to be tamper-proof. It will be used for future DRM (digital restrictions...