Upcoming Precision 5510 should be a business laptop ver of the new XPS15. Skylake CPU all the way up to the mobile xeons (which look like they're just slightly higher-clock quad core i7's that can run off ECC RAM -- correct me if I'm wrong), RAM and HDD can be swapped out later, laptop size is...
I got a Air 2 and Mini 2 last year during BF. Kept Mini 2, returned Air 2.
It's all going to be about size and usability -- for tablet gaming, Mini wins hands down. Air looks beautiful but it's pretty much impossible to play games w/o cramping after a little bit. I was hooked on the tablet...
If you're looking at this level of speakers, nothing will really matter. Even the highest-priced one has a 5" subwoofer -- you're looking at boomy fake bass, right there. I would get the cheapest 2.0 setup and call it a day if you absolutely must buy.
If you don't mind a pair of headphones, a...
Or you could go full ergo with the mouse and get a vertical Evoluent mouse. Wouldn't use it for gaming but in the office where I do most of the mousing anyway it's saved my wrist. You also get the added benefit of no one touching your PC because they have no clue how to operate this...
Raw power-wise not a chance. Not unless one of the current big 3 decides to load up their next console with a 500W PSU. You'd be delusional thinking otherwise. As far as whether people will care or not, we'll have the same folks we have now crying foul over it, and the masses will largely...
Graphical fidelity is more than good enough as it is now. When you look at screenshots, when you look at slower cutscenes w/ character conversations, THEN the added fidelity becomes important... but is that something that's important to making games more interesting? I honestly couldn't care...
If you can't think of games you want to play on them, then neither. Hardware-wise both are great systems: the 3DS is a capable handheld that does good on its 3D claims; eye-strain is usually only an issue for the first few days, after which you get used to it. Does depend on the presentation...
From what I've seen before, 'yellow tint' usually happens because people aren't used to warmer color palettes. You could probably trade for a set w/ cooler colors, but this will come at the expense of colors that look deader overall.
Have you experimented at all w/ knee support? Even a cho-pat strap could be the difference between selecting activities that your knees can survive on its own vs whatever your endurance/skills can sustain. I've had previous problems w/ the left knee and most activities will bring it pain in...
I recall seeing some improvement in idle power consumption going from my E4300 OC'ed@2.4Ghz to Q9300 @ stock. Core ix looks to be better in that regard, since I doubt surveillance software would be taxing the PC in any way unless you were recording in HD. Whether it's worth it you'd have to...
Last upgrade I made was to a QC9300 middle of last year pre-FF14, Would like to get this so I can finally get idling power below 100W. Only thing I'm really planning on doing to tax the PC would be Diablo3, so if it plays well enough with that CPU and a HD5770 I might hold off a while longer...
Wasn't the student promo the console only? W/ the 100 off Kinect version deals as of late I suspect you can get better deals @ BF if you can wait that long. Either way, I would not buy consoles this gen used unless it's an absolute steal. And if you're planning on doing multiplayer w/ friends...
Ghost Recon and Samurai Warriors. Former got quite addictive, the latter was surprisingly good for a Warriors title, esp. with the player switching w/ the touch panel that cuts out time wasted on movement. Not sure what else can be wholly recommend; third parties have as a whole dropped the...
Still feel like I'm paying for flash games on the app store. Also not exactly fond of 'excellent apps' that happen to be blatant rips of existing games and selling for 99 cents. That said, the average consumer won't give a damn and apart from hardware-specific originals portable game devices...
Not sure what this article is trying to say. There's been quality titles that had disappointing sales vs critical reception on all consoles, and highlighting one and saying it's happened to all of them is plain silly. And it still doesn't refute my point at all: devs still never made...
one thing's for sure, it'll have a lot more traction from devs on the get-go compared to the Wii. I think it's pretty obvious developers overcommitted to HD gaming back in 2005/2006, and investors must have been insistent on the strategy considering how devs kept at it despite massive losses...
And how are devs going to recoup costs for $.99 Crysis? Those phones/tablets have already proved themselves as somewhat of a gaming platform in my mind, but it's virtually impossible to weed out the good games from the rest once you go below the top 5 or so, and in my experience it hasn't been...
it's too bad they can't have AR games as the demo piece -- Pilot Wings has great 3D, but it takes more adjustment than other games to get correctly. A lot of third person games are going to run into this problem if they make it this 3D heavy -- Samurai Warriors gets around this by having...
Got an import. Very impressed with it; 3D doesn't really 'get old,' more of you get used to it and take it for granted. It's been a while since I played a Warriors title, and the 3ds version has been very fun; quick switching between playable characters give it a quasi-RTS feel alongside...
I thought the TomTom car kits have a good GPS builtin so that you can run their apps more accurately using iphones. If all you're using the GPS is for navigation software, couldn't you saw off the top retainer end so that it can be attached to an ipad? It's 90 on amazon now but I believe it...
i play on a 47" tv from ~7ft away. It seemed small for a while compared to my projector setup (100" 16:9), but know what? You get used to it. Just like the way 17" monitors were absolutely HUGE and made Quake a killer experience (till you started on 19"s) you'll get used to the size.
The...
Release major Nintendo launch titles and third parties cry foul of a console that can't sell third party titles. Nintendo shows some restraint and users cry out about weak launch titles. You just can't win everyone.
I think SF4 looks stunning and the 3ds features well used, just goes to show...
Depends on how much gaming prowess he needs, but I think Stu's suggestion is the way to go. It's feasible but certainly not comfortable carrying a 17-inch laptop around to class, and you get the added burden of carrying around a huge power supply since they are typically lacking in the battery...
Ever since I've gotten out of college I've been more of a console gamer. I know PC games still blow console counterparts out of the water graphics-wise, but it's been much easier to organize games for the 360 w/ friends. Had I still played with the people on the old CS servers I might still be...
E4300 system I had for 3 years got upgraded this year w/ a Q9300 CPU and radeon 5770. Honestly it does everything I need it to do -- since my gaming is pretty much all consoles now the only thing I'd need a faster CPU for in a home system is faster encodes. The quad CPU takes pretty good care...
Sounds to me like you've already tried this before (w/ the 17in laptop) and found the desktop to be more comfortable to use. For what you do on the PC a laptop's probably the more logical choice, but aside from junking/handing down the PC I wouldn't get rid of the desk or anything. Unless you...
And I just put in an order for the lower-end Z12 from Newegg. Pricing makes me wish I thought of this when BCB was still effective... Ended up spending way more than I was planning on, but this should be more than fast enough to last me several years down the road. Again, thanks for the...
thanks for all the suggestions.
i've heard a lot about how good sony screens are, I've seen some and they do look nice but damn if they don't try to charge an arm and a leg over the competition. Starting to look a lot like these specialty notebooks are the only way I'll get what I'm looking...
Seems that laptop screen quality is still an afterthought compared to everything else. I'd like to replace my aging m700, but there really doesn't seem to be very many choices, if at all, for smaller laptops with good screens. The Studio XPS13 models seemed like a good choice, except that they...
I can extend desktops just fine if that's what you're talking about; the problem is that by default applications will still maximize on one screen only (since they're still treated as 4 separate displays, albeit adjoined), or two when I use horizontal/vertical span.
I figured there'd be general...
I'm trying to make a system w/ 4 identical monitors, with 1680x1050 resolution each, act as though it was one giant 3360x2100 monitor (and not 4 separate monitors) under Windows. Graphics card is nVidia Quadro 420. Just plain spanning the monitor works fine as is with Dual-View; I can make the...
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