Posts by Datheron

Well, it does have decent hardware, for starters. A P3 chip w/ a GF3 card, I believe. But rince is partially right by mentioning that there's no OS on the XBox. There IS an OS, but it's small and does not need to do much other than...

Yea, no doubt, it's not a bad machine. My question, though, is why you'd need to get a machine that isn't that much of an improvement over what you have, especially since you're in middle school and you don't need it for business. Why...

Loading programs up actually is dependent on the speed of the hard drive, as you're loading the program from disk into main memory. So, the answer to your question is neither, really.

Quote: Originally Posted by Anacardo Thanks, thanks, thaaanks!!!!! It's about time!!! Finally some REAl 3D test and not the usual 3dmark crap. way to go!!! Meanwhile, there's another main question...

Well.... Getting a bigger screen lowers battery life; so does turning up the contrast to make your screen brighter. An easy way to make your laptop last longer is by getting a second battery. An easy way to increase performance is to...

Well, we all must sacrifice to get the right laptop, right? Yea, I use Maya on my notebook for modelling. I'll see if I can go grab some benchmarks...personally, though, Maya has been not as responsive as I'd like, and there have...

Um...I dunno why nobody has said this, but I believe that professional high-end graphics cards (i.e. Quadro) run professional modelling programs like 3DS Max and Maya 1.5-2x faster than commercial high-end gaming graphics cards. The...

ZipZoomFly was originally Googlegear before Google told them to change their name. I ordered from Googlegear before, and they were great. A few items were truly cheap, and I had free 2nd day shipping on all my items. Recommended here.

Also remember that when a card is not DX9 compatible, it doesn't mean that it cannot run DX9 games - it means that it will run them without DX9 options. All that fancy lighting and shadow stuff you see in the newest games are courtesy of...

Quote: Originally Posted by XSternMinator Remember what Piaget said about children, that they can only see things from their perspective. I thought they grew out of that phase around 8 years old?