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post #21 of 41
6/17/04 at 5:45pm
Viewing angles.

Ill be doing alot of presentation work and will need alot better viewing angles than what the current 15" sxga+'s can offer.

I would settle for wxga, but that just kills the real estate.
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post #22 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:02pm
really been, i guess it comes down to what you're comfortable with.

right now i have 6 windows onscreen with my 1280x1024 work desktop. kind of cramped, but it works
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post #23 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:06pm
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Originally Posted by Aikeo
wsxga+ isn't actually that much bigger than sxga+, is there a reason you feel you must have it?
wsxga+ is much nicer than sxga+ if you need the screen real estate. That's enough reason right there.

And I wouldn't call recent Dell build quality an urban myth. It is well documented in the Dell forum here as well as the official Dell forums. I had a Dell 8500 for exactly one day before getting rid of it, the keyboard was that bad.
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post #24 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:12pm
That's another thing that sucks. I could go over and check a Dell out, see how it feels, but there are no Dell stores around. I guess I could drive to Texas...
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post #25 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:13pm
Or I could buy one and return it...that may be what I end up doing.
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post #26 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:13pm
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Originally Posted by flashram
wsxga+ is much nicer than sxga+ if you need the screen real estate. That's enough reason right there.

And I wouldn't call recent Dell build quality an urban myth. It is well documented in the Dell forum here as well as the official Dell forums. I had a Dell 8500 for exactly one day before getting rid of it, the keyboard was that bad.
lol, not if you can't find a wsxga+ system that has decent build quality and the m11/128 Mb, thats the whole point of all this
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post #27 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:15pm
A guy at work has a 8600 that i was able to mess around with a bit. The KB wasnt anything worse than anything i saw at best buy. But with the amount of systems they are shipping out, im sure some really bad ones slip through thier less than steller quality controll process =)
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post #28 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:18pm
I am not a huge gamer, but would like the ability to do so. The M10/128MB would be mroe than adequate wouldn't it?
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post #29 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:18pm
Aikeo, yes!

That is the whole point, find a wsgxa+ with good build quality and a m10/11 128mb gpu.

This particular combo is like, illegal or something...
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post #30 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:18pm
yeah, should be fine. what games do you like to play
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post #31 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:19pm
m10/128 will outperform a m11/64 by a pretty good margin.
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post #32 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:22pm
Worms...pac-man...you know, those demanding games like that

I like RPG's. I would get into Neverwinter Nights, Marrowind, things like that. Probably not Farcry, or UT, because I like playing games like that on my Xbox. But i hear RPG's are so much better for the computer than for any console.
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post #33 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:23pm
althought Fable looks pretty promising for Xbox, and Marrowind was great for Xbox.
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post #34 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:28pm
Kotor is awesome for either platform.
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post #35 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:28pm
haha... how about Minesweeper. most demanding graphics ever

for RPGs like those, i think you'll be okay even with a 64 Mb 9700, and definitely okay with a m10/128 Mb

even with WoW coming out, i dont think it's going to be graphically more intensive than wc3 except that the models might be painted up a little better (from screenshots, i'm not beta testing unfortunately)

i think the 64 Mb starts to suffer only when you turn up the res on Farcry (above 1024x800) and expect it to keep spitting out 60+ fps
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post #36 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:31pm
Roarak...you are right, KOTOR ruled. I loved that game, played it for Xbox...

Aikeo what is WoW...I have seen it talked about, but don't know what it is?
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post #37 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:34pm
World of Warcraft.
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post #38 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:35pm
World of Warcract. "The next big thing" in the mmorpg world.

Its in closed beta right now
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post #39 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:35pm
http://www.blizzard.com/wow/
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post #40 of 41
6/17/04 at 6:36pm
world of warcraft

it can be compared to everquesst.. but it improves on it in every aspectalmost

its a massively multiplayer online role playing game or also known as 'mmorpg'

i love rpgs btw and neverwinter nights is a great one
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