Posts by chuck232

I'll actually agree with the thread starter for some of the points he/she's making. If you play any first person shooter competitively, it's absolutely necessary for the frame rates to be extremely fluid. I'm talking no microsecond drops...

The X1400 really doesn't have the power to push enough FPS with those new features on anyways so it seems a moot point. 3DMark scores aren't everything. Just cause the X1400 seems to score very well in those benchmarks, I'd suggest...

Man nice specs and all, but maybe it's just me, but those look... ugly? Especially the HEL80. The HGL30 looks decent. The cover is so reminiscent of the Toshibas.

Quote: Originally Posted by robbie d. Well, I'm sure that graphics cards in laptops are a big contibutor to the problem as well-- see the MBP, for example-- but in other cases, such as the Macbook, where there is no...

Rarely will any development work require OS X. In fact, it's usually not recommended to use OS X for development (okay, I'm talking about coding here), unless it is specifically Mac dev. Windows and Linux are favored mostly because of...

If you mean compared to the desktop versions, it'll totally depend on the clocks at which the notebook manufacturer decides to clock them. You can expect them to be more like a 7600 GS with one quad disabled. Clock speeds seem to be in...

I'm in my second semester of year 1 Comp Eng (UWaterloo has an alternating study/co-op program which is why I get to study in the summer...) and I can definitely say you DO NOT NEED a powerful computer. At least not for the first couple...

Eh, Matbe's actually a decently large hardware site, on par with something like HotHardware.

I wonder if those requirements are like WinXP requiring only 128MB. If you've ever run WinXP on a machine with only 128MB you'll know that it's extremely painful. I don't think you'll be wanting to run Vista with less than 1GB of...

Read, read, read. http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060518/earns_dell.html?.v=9 As Rollins says "It's a fairly small category in terms of units". Unless K8L is able to offer something spectacular, I can't see AMD with the advantage in...