Recent content by spynoodle

I think the lack of price drop might partly be due to the Thailand floods in late 2011; hard drive prices are still only just dropping below their pre-flood levels, so the SSD manufacturers had no reason to drop their prices to compete.

Beat me to it. :) I guess we have our explanation now.

Well, you know, Bulldozer was expected to be really good and it turned out to be awful, so maybe since Ivy is expected to be awful, it will turn out to be really good. :)

The Pentium Pro was pretty epic. It had gold on it - that's pretty cool. :) I also really liked my Celeron D 365, given the kind of clocks it could reach.

Yeah, IMO the main problem with netbooks is that their screens were just too small. 10 inches is a bare minimum, and anything smaller is a bit ridiculous. IMO, CR-48-esque notebooks are the way to go when it comes to cheap portable computing. Tablets are nice, but unless you have a keyboard it's...

According to Passmark, the 6990m is a good amount faster than the 5850m. If you're having FPS troubles it might be worth it, but $350 is still a lot of money.

3D hurts. Literally. Between people whose eyes hurt while watching a 3D movie (like me) and people who just don't care, very few people are actually eligible to buy a 3D TV. When glasses-less 3D becomes cheaper, the technology might finally go mainstream.

I have to agree: although ultralight notebooks in general are much nice to use, they just aren't all that popular. People want cheap stuff. That's why really low-end HPs and Acers are extremely popular.

CES is essentially a place for companies to announce their "amazing" new stuff. Yeah, a lot of the products don't sell, but that's to be expected. Companies try to push new crap at people so fast, they never even hear of half the products that are released. Take Motorola, for example. My Droid 2...

+1. If you have that much to spend, you may as well buy the best single card that you can get, rather than CF two less powerful cards that won't be fully compatible with every game anyway.

Nice, a built-in GPU that performs better than a lot of low-end cards. That's something that people will use.

Exactly. It's not about bulldozer, it's about being competitive in the smatphone/tablet market. Intel's making a huge push to get their chips in phones before it's too late. Honestly, I wish that AMD would put up a better fight. Once Intel releases their Sandy Bridge Celerons, AMD might just...

9600GT FTW!!!!! :D Check out www.videocardbenchmark.net. The 9600GT owns the 5450. ;)

Cool, Intel finally worked out that bug. :cool: I only know about what my old Pentium 4 did, so..... yeah. :)

Pretty cool. Looks kinda like a military version of one of those Corsair towers. :)