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IBM dead pixel hell

I understand your desire to get the perfectest product out of the box, but dead pixels are not such a big deal to do three returns and waste your and store employee time. My LCD has two dead subpixels (red and blue) in one pixel, a scratch and two tiny nicks in plastic in front of screen (either...
- Burbot
- Post #9
- Feb 27, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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Seller sold a textbook marked: "Professional Review Copy: Not Intended for Sale"

Not intended for resale means that "We ask you not to resell it". That's clear and simple. They have no way to legally prohibit resale, and that's all they can do - ask people not to do this. And people have all the rights to disagree. Anyone who tries to apply ethics to publishers is nuts...
- Burbot
- Post #35
- Feb 3, 2005
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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amd on btx

AMD on BTX? You must be a fan of solutions that are looking for problems.
- Burbot
- Post #8
- Jan 29, 2005
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Does the Pentium M 2.13Ghz make sense for high end laptop gaming?

High-end video cards -> a lot of power consumption -> cooling requires making thick notebook -> enough space to put in a fast A64.
- Burbot
- Post #4
- Jan 20, 2005
- Forum: Laptops
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Will there be advantages for a SFF with nForce4 & PCIe?

No.
- Burbot
- Post #2
- Jan 2, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
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WHY-OH-WHY

(1.35 - 1.1) / 1.1 = .227 (which I truncated). 15" powerbook is not one inch thick. It says 1.1" for 15" powerbook in Apple specs. In the rest of the post, I refer to "regular" 15" Powerbook - all lower-cost laptops have XGA (which is way too low for me), all higher-cost machines cost too...
- Burbot
- Post #43
- Dec 30, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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WHY-OH-WHY

That's about 20% thicker. Not unnoticable, but not significant either. And I personally see no way for it to be that much less luggable then Apple model. I don't mind facing oh so horrile quater of inch if the machine is a thousand bucks cheaper and still satisfies *my* requirements.
- Burbot
- Post #41
- Dec 29, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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AMD Socket 939, DDR2 and PCI-Express

Never. DDR2 requires a new CPU socket. Socket 939 will not have DDR2.
- Burbot
- Post #10
- Dec 28, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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I want to change from Intel to AMD ......

Currently, you can get GeForce 6800 series for both AGP and PCI-E. This is as high as a sane person might want to go. Their performance is pretty much the same. There is no point in picking in PCI-E "for the future", as more powerful video cards are going to be limited by your CPU, and...
- Burbot
- Post #5
- Dec 27, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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I want to change from Intel to AMD ......

PCI-E and SATA II are fairly useless on their own, and I find it hard to come up with any sort of computer-related activity that requires support of those technologies (unless we count "my machine supports more technologies then your does" penis measurement). So, what do you want to do with that...
- Burbot
- Post #2
- Dec 26, 2004
- Forum: Motherboards
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What is PCI-E technology?

Because certain sleazy companies want gullible customers to pay more for devices that support yet another pointless (E)TLA.
- Burbot
- Post #7
- Dec 26, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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WHY-OH-WHY

Asus M6Ne. SXGA+ or WXGA (your pick), Pentium M, quite thin, and looks quite well. It does not have next generation video, but then the only machines that do have 9800 or 6800 are tanklike bricks or just vapour. If you were considering Mac, I do not think you are much of a gamer, so I do not see...
- Burbot
- Post #10
- Dec 21, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Looking for a notebook

It looks like they call it "Z80" in US. As a result, googling for it returns you a pile of old zilog-related crap. Why the hell do companies have to confuse their customers like that? First it was limited only to graphics cards(ATI, Nvidia), then Intel and AMD joined the fray, and now pretty...
- Burbot
- Post #6
- Dec 15, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Looking for a notebook

2699? I do not know where you are located, but we Canucks can get it for $1750 CAD. Unless I missed some radical USD value change, it should be cheaper in America.
- Burbot
- Post #4
- Dec 15, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Looking for a notebook

This one is nice, although new and fairly hard to find on display. http://www.asus.com/prog/spec....%20Series&langs=01
- Burbot
- Post #2
- Dec 15, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Need Some Help Deciding on a Laptop

First of all, I do not really get the point of 12" Powerbook. If your needs are satisfied by 12" Powerbook, they are probably going to be satisfied by iBook as well, but for 2/3 of the price. There just isn't much difference between the two that might justify price difference. Futhermore, you...
- Burbot
- Post #12
- Dec 12, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Powerbook 15" @ 1.5GHz

That's why chip engineering is that hard. You can make a powerful "wide" design and hit clockrate brickwall, or could try slimming design down and hope you could get it to clock higher. You can't have both - it's like trying to design a humwee that fits in a closet. So all the statements like...
- Burbot
- Post #38
- Dec 12, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Powerbook 15" @ 1.5GHz

Removed by poster
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- Post #36
- Dec 12, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Powerbook 15" @ 1.5GHz

That G4 does not happen to produce data in "bigger chunks" as some fanboys tried to prove. That's more then you know about architectures you try to badmouth.
- Burbot
- Post #34
- Dec 12, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Powerbook 15" @ 1.5GHz

You are using a *reader letter* to The Register as a confirmation of your position? First of all, the letter author's problem is not really with SSE2, but rather with Pentium 4 Wilamette implementation of it. P-M shares most of traits of P3 and offers SSE2 capabilities, and Northwood and...
- Burbot
- Post #32
- Dec 12, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Powerbook 15" @ 1.5GHz

Your article states that AltiVec is better then SSE1. All modern processors from Intel and AMD support SSE2, which was a big improvement to SSE1. Why don't you find an article that compares current tech to current tech, that is AltiVec to SSE2? As for Apple "max throughput" figures, they...
- Burbot
- Post #22
- Dec 11, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Powerbook 15" @ 1.5GHz

Intel® Architecture Optimization Reference Manual Page 36. Streaming SIMD Extensions of the Pentium III Processor The Streaming SIMD Extensions of the Pentium III processor accelerate performance of applications over the Pentium II processors, for example, 3D graphics. The programming...
- Burbot
- Post #20
- Dec 11, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Very best notebook?

Take one of those 1U rackmount dual opteron machines. Add LCD of corresponding size and a swivel joint. Congratulations, you got yourself the best notebook in the world (and probably went over budget).
- Burbot
- Post #18
- Dec 11, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Powerbook 15" @ 1.5GHz

Thin Lizzy SSE registers are 128 bit, so G4 has no advantage here. If a task can be "altivec enabled", in majority of cases it can be "SSE enabled". First, SSE *does* provide 128-bit registers. Second, Pentium M *does* support SSE2. Link Why don't you quit spreading lies and...
- Burbot
- Post #14
- Dec 11, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Laptop liquid cooling?

This is true, if you assume that second processor gives you 100% increase in performance. Unfortunately, dual core processors are limited by having only one memory controller. As a result, leakage decrease will be compensated by performance loss in shared bus system and limited application...
- Burbot
- Post #23
- Dec 6, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Wat is UR Dream car that is affordable to you?

BRDM-2 (unmodified)
- Burbot
- Post #32
- Nov 30, 2004
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Iwill Dual-Opteron SFF approaches

coolred I share opinion of arcas about some kind of configuration screwup. Let's assume that Sandra memory bandwidth scores actually mean something useful. Then NUMA configuration, by virtue of having 2x theoretical memory bandwidth, is going to give you 2x score. This effect can be seen on...
- Burbot
- Post #14
- Nov 30, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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Iwill Dual-Opteron SFF approaches

The only people that will spend gobs of cash on a dual processor workstation are those who need performance or memory capacity. Thus, a dual processor workstation manufacturer should make sure their machine *provides* performance and memory capacity. Users that do not really do anything too...
- Burbot
- Post #8
- Nov 29, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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Iwill Dual-Opteron SFF approaches

I do not understand the point of purchasing a dual Opteron machine that is castrated by manufacturer to have memory only on one CPU. Having separate memory banks for different CPUs happens to be one of Opteron's biggest advantages.
- Burbot
- Post #6
- Nov 28, 2004
- Forum: Computer Building
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Asus M6ne

I finally more or less settled on a machine I would like to buy. This is Asus M6Ne/Pentium M 1.6GHz[725]/512 DDR333/40G 5400rpm/Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 for slightly less then $1800 CAD. Can anyone suggest me something better or cheaper? I need SXGA+ or better screen, preferrably non-widescreen...
- Burbot
- Post #4
- Nov 17, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Did we win the Cold War?

USA did not win. USSR, just like many empires before it, killed itself. It's death was caused by detachment of leaders from reality, corruption, and lack of transparency in decision making. USA is currently suffering from the same symptoms, and, unless direction in which it is moving drastically...
- Burbot
- Post #23
- Nov 17, 2004
- Forum: Politics and News
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Laptop liquid cooling?

So two cores are not going to produce double the heat amount of a single identical core? How's that? Now, one can sure downclock cores in a dual core package to bring the heat output down (just like Intel and AMD are going to do with their multicore processors), but if all you do is add second...
- Burbot
- Post #17
- Nov 15, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Laptop liquid cooling?

We will add more cores. Two cores = double the heat. No matter which way you pick, CPUs will get hotter. There were times when CPU heatsinks were unusual. Then there were times when CPU fans were unusual. Then there were times when high-perfomance copper CPU HSFs were unusual. Sure, no one...
- Burbot
- Post #5
- Nov 14, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Laptop liquid cooling?

How do you think, is it possible that notebook builders will start transitioning to liquid cooling? Radiator could be placed in the back of the screen, and coolant could be passed through hinges (quite possible with this style of hinge) to hot components inside. Most normal folks would not...
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- Thread
- Nov 14, 2004
- Replies: 22
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional
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Want to play around with a Mac...

I'm not too sure about AMD's K8 architecture, but I'm sure it's not too different from the Prescotts as Prescotts are different from Apple processors. Someone should probably try reading the fine microprocessor architecture manuals. While K8 has a lot of traits that both G5 and Prescott lack...
- Burbot
- Post #95
- Oct 21, 2004
- Forum: Laptops
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Need cpu to run Java.

Java code in general has lots of runtime checks sprinkled all over it, and those are potential branch mispredictions gnawing on heels of your CPU all the time. So I would expect Athlon or Pentium M to perform better then P4 on Java code, and out of P4s, Northwood would probably better then...
- Burbot
- Post #10
- Oct 13, 2004
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Future Shop and deceptive open box practices

Yesterday, I have bought a Compaq R3230CA machine from Future Shop. The salesperson offered me a $50 cheaper open box machine ($1550 instead of $1600). When I asked about possibility of dead pixel appearance, that guy told me that technicians test returned machines to conform to quality...
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- Thread
- Oct 12, 2004
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Laptops
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POLL: listening to music at workplace

When I worked as a video store clerk, I used to listen to death metal on speakers attached to PoS computer while processing rentals. No one complained, although some folks asked me if I can actually enjoy that stuff.
- Burbot
- Post #8
- Sep 30, 2004
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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AMD 3Ghz

Radeon 7000? Sounds like you got exactly what you paid for.
- Burbot
- Post #2
- Sep 30, 2004
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Can an IDE cable ruin a hard drive?

Of course a bad IDE cable can kill a drive. This one, for instance
- Burbot
- Post #17
- Sep 23, 2004
- Forum: Ask a Technical Professional

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