Posts by mrdeep

Its not competition for 2 real processors. It is meant to be a way to get one processor to do more work. When it comes down to compeeting with amd's dual spu setup, you take two of these hyperthreaded cpus, and then see who comes out...

I bet it was probably some sort of marketing ploy initally. They anounced temps in °C because they sounded better than in °F. It could have also let them say it was a bit lower than it actually was because 212F = 100C, but 213F would...

By the way, here in the states, we measure cpu & other computer temps in °C, not °F ... not really sure why. Don't worry about those pesky conversions :-)

Its more than just hype. Look at the benchmarks people, sure it hinders preformance in soem areas, but if you're running a lot of multi-threaded apps (3d rendering, audio/video compression, whatever else is seriously multithreaded), it...

Do you have 2d/3d acceleration? Redhat detected my video card properly when I installed it on my desktop, but there was no 2d or 3d acceration so I went out and bought an el-cheap-o geforce 2 pci card for linux. Seeing as I have...

So ... how is mandrake 9 on your sager? I'm more of a redhat guy, but for the same reasons. Also because its more widely used. I'm looking into getting one, and linux support is important to me, anything impotant I ought know?

woah ... it really is overkill ... I put my 19" monitor up that high once, it wasn't blurry, but everything was so small that I had to magnify everything. I then realized that there was no point in running at such a high resolution...

Ibm thinkpads had a similar problem 2 years ago, on those, it was a problem with the connector they use to connect the lcd to the motherboard/videocard. They only used one screw to hold it in place or something, but yeah ... that sounds...

if you are on / have access to a desktop, that can do both 1600x1200 & 1280x1024, just compare the diffrence. When I went up to 1600x1200 on my 19" crt, it initally seemed like everything was very small, but i got used to it in...

i run @ 1600x1200 on my 19" desktop ... i leave the text size @ normal size most off the time (about 1.5 feet away), and when i lean all the way back in my chair & put my feet up & have brought up some large document to read...