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posted June 01, 2009 01:30 AM |
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I shall make my point clearer.
This small share of PC users, aka gamers, although a minority, are a flowering market on their own. They have high demands, are agressive buyers and expect to be supplied with top quality. So far NVIDIA and ATI are the ones supplying this crowd. And unless Intel totally focuses on this particular population, they will not run down the two aforementioned producers.
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mvassilev
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posted June 01, 2009 01:38 AM |
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Wolfsburg:
I'd really rather get a desktop, except I'm going to transport it to college and back, so a laptop is easier.
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Yeah, I know, and running parallel applications may be useful for me.
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What has the manufacturer got to do with whether it is integrated or not? I cannot see the logic.
Nothing - I mean, so the graphics card would have its own RAM, etc.
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TheDeath
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posted June 01, 2009 01:38 AM |
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Wolfsburg
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posted June 01, 2009 01:48 AM |
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Indeed we do. Competition is lovely.
But Intel will have to work their asses off on it.
To the moment they have no place within the reign of gaming, that has blossomed like nothing before, after the development of MMORPGs. I've done some research on it and not a single one, note NOT A SINGLE high-end gaming-hardware company uses Intel videocards as default.
Not Alienware, Falcon Northwest, AVAdirect, Puget Systems, Velocity Micro... and so on. They all use NVDIA products only. NVDIA has earned themselves quite a name for unbeatable quality videocards. It will take some effort to take them down.
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posted June 01, 2009 03:05 AM |
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Edited by Binabik at 03:08, 01 Jun 2009.
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Video card companies have always come and gone. There's never been a long term dominant company. ATI has been around a very long time, but their quality and reputation has gone up and down. I think my favorite card for graphics quality, but not gaming, was the old Matrox Millennium. They are still around but I don't know how good they are these days. Before Matrox, Number 9 was the one to beat in the graphics world, and before them was Video 7 who made fantastic cards for their time.
When it comes to hardware companies, they can fall real fast, that's the nature of the business. Technology moves too fast. There is no room for complacency and very little room for mistakes. Missing a design deadline by a couple weeks causing the company to miss the Christmas rush can hurt a company real bad. To a lesser degree it's the same thing missing the big electronic and computer shows. No matter how big the dog is, there are always many more dogs just waiting to pounce if they have the chance.
Mvass was looking at Acer. That's another company whose reputation has floundered in the past. Does anybody know much about them these days?
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posted June 01, 2009 03:27 AM |
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Mvass was looking at Acer. That's another company whose reputation has floundered in the past. Does anybody know much about them these days?
I have a (crappy) Acer at which I'm typing right now. It's pretty solid but the hard-drive performance sucks, though it probably has nothing to do with Acer but with some other company (it doesn't say what brand it is). From one of my friends who had a technical service job at a local company, avoid Toshiba (that was 2 years ago, not sure how it is today).
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mvassilev
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posted June 01, 2009 03:30 AM |
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Nvidia and ATI have been dominating forever, though.
As for Acer, I have a friend who has one - no complaints about it.
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posted June 01, 2009 07:23 AM |
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LOL, I guess I'm just old and percieve time on a different scale.
I look at Nvidia as noobs in the graphics industry. They've actually be around a while, but they didn't have any kind of name until recently when they bought out some of the other big graphic chip and card makers. I'm not even sure how much of their own development they've done until recently.
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