Posts by Chirality

Only the highest end of the BX series will have x700, unfortunately. The $1500 starting model in the 14 inch line, for instance, will have GMA900. The high end $2000 14inch model will have X700.

PureVideo is on all of nVidia's 6 and 7 series cards, including mobile ones. There is no PureVideo software, it's activated by the latest drivers. The PureVideo decoder is actually nVidia's DVD Decoder, and if I recall correctly, it only...

In true Intel fashion, Yonah requires a brand new platform to run, i.e. the Napa platform (successor to Sonoma) with the Calistoga chipset (successor to Alviso). So, no, there is almost no hope at all.

Oops. Almost forgot. Acer Travelmate 3220 is 14inch widescreen and has X700.

To play DVDs you still need the nVidia DVD Decoder.

Two existing 14inch notebooks with somewhat good graphics: Asus W3V with X600 and Toshiba Tecra M3 with Go 6600 TE (downclocked) Two upcoming 14inch notebooks with very good graphics: Sony FJ series with widescreen and X700 on select...

Quote: Originally Posted by Col.Wild Ok, thanks for your help. I just didn't see this in DVD Shrink. I will take a look again and see if I can figure out how to 'backup' to a file. I just realized DVD Shrink...

DVD Shrink is the way to go. It's the software that actually enables you to, *ahem*, bypass the mechanism that prevents you from ripping your DVDs. Then, you want to compress the ripped MPEG-2 files into MPEG-4 files, in order to fit...

Quote: Originally Posted by spybyscript Actually the drivers just have a couple simple places changed in the ini, that is all. No real optimizations. Use the latest driver you can get, www.laptopvideo2go.com, get their...

Quote: Originally Posted by mysngoterased I've heard lots of problems with the m3 like fan noise, heat, and quality. I've dealt with 2 proteges before and both had a plethora of problems. I know many pple love toshiba,...