Posts by Blahman

The first generation of HDTVs, circa 2000, were rear projection sets (CRTs) and 1080i actually came before 720p because of 720p's higher pixel clock requiring faster electronics. I have one of these behemoths in the living room -- it is...

if you're intending on breaking it that is fraud.

while component is capable of 1080p, NVIDIA graphics cards are restricted to 1080i by the drivers. you have to use VGA or DVI to get 1080p out unfortunately.

It's official, Dell sucks. Mobile 9x00M cards will probably be out before the 8800M is available in a Dell. Check out this ASUS notebook with a 9500M GS. http://www.taylorwilsdon.com/archives/27

like you said, supply & demand at work here. plus the manufacturing costs for notebook parts are much higher due to lower economies of scale (higher initial price which can linger at low amounts of supply and high demand).

ahh the good ol 6800U white screen crash. i remember getting that, then I had them replace the card which fixed it. hey maybe you ended up with my old card

well if he meant it, he didn't say it. I moved onto a SFF desktop. Next notebook I get is going to have to be massively improved from the ones that have been put out lately. Gimped videocards and increasing size/weight put me off this...

Had an M170 for 2.5 years, just sold it on Thursday for $1100 New system: Shuttle SP35P2 Pro Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz 1333MHz FSB @ 3.2GHz 1600MHz FSB Crucial Ballistix 4x1GB PC2-6400 @ DDR 800MHz, 4-4-4-12 eVGA 8800GT SSC...

Stereo mix is great for spamming music over teamspeak Or recording with FRAPS/any recording program.

That's probably true somewhat. You should see what the original XPS Gen 1 goes for on a regular basis (it's more than $1100).