Posted 11/18/2009 at 01:09:47pm

what controller does this thing use? that is one of the most crucial bits of data when looking at SSD's

Posted 11/12/2009 at 07:07:54am

come on MPC, why didn't you take a look at the actual report critera? do you know what this study is based on? number of reported venurerabitlities. so the way to get your browser at the top of this vaunted list is to never fix bugs.

oh, and the biggest kicker? study funded by microsoft

reportingfail

Posted 11/05/2009 at 07:19:45am

nvidia has a marketshare advantage only because the radeon 2 and 3 series were garbage and the Geforce 8 and 9 series can still game pretty well.

ever since radeon 4 launched team green has been on the defensive. right now an equivelently performing nvidia card costs nearly $20 more than it's radeon competitor. this is a situation that has persisted for months. nvidia's large die sizes mean they can compete with ATI on price. and Fermi is very late.

as for GPGPU, CUDA was only a stopgap, now that OpenCL is here it will quickly be abandoned. after all, who wants to program for a proprietary system that only works on one companies GPU's when they can have one that works on both equally well? proprietary API's like Cuda and PhsX are only dead weight now that open source alternitives are availible to everyone

nvidia is in trouble because there huge die sizes cost too much money to compete, ATI is doing more with less right now. they made a company wide gamble with Radeon 3, and it payed off with Radeon 4. now with Radeon 5 out they are the standard for DX11.

Nvidia's problem is far more dire than not having Fermi out, there are real questions as to whether they can price Fermi competitavely and still make a profit. Nvidia needs to abandon it's strategy of producing huge, monolithic GPU's or it may soon find itself priced out of the market by a resugent ATI and and Intel that is out for it's head

Posted 09/22/2009 at 10:01:03pm

I think you guys meant to say "Backwards Compatility with AM2+ is the Big Surprise"

AM3 is the current socket so it wouldnt make much sense

Posted 09/16/2009 at 01:56:07pm

the simple fact is that BB's business model hasn't made sense for almost a decade now. they have been surviving on people uncomfortable with DVD by mail or Digital distrobution.

eventually even the netflix model will become outdated as broadband speeds increase and proliferate accross the country.

it's hard to feel bad for BB, they had a golden opportunity to enter the DVD by mail or digital distrobution market and own it but were too late and too reticent to abandon thier old unprofitable business model. this annoucement should have come in 2004, not 2009

Posted 09/15/2009 at 04:16:10pm

it's pretty obvious that interplay is to blame here, they sold the right to the franchise, if they still wanted to sell Fallout games they needed Beth's permission, they didn't get it. hence the lawyer storm.

and interplay's MMO would have been nothing like FA3, Bethesda made FA3, not interplay.

Posted 09/11/2009 at 10:32:33am

was wathcing the NFL opener last night and saw the MPC quote. kinda chuckled to myself

Posted 09/08/2009 at 09:14:20pm

as long a people need powerful/cheap computers, desktops aren't going anywhere

Posted 09/03/2009 at 11:38:40pm

the game isnt mech warrior 5. it's just "Mech Warrior" it's a sort of reboot.

Posted 08/26/2009 at 09:13:07am

when blizzard annouced they were dropping LAN I decided I wasn't going to buy the game. not because I felt my "rights" were being violated by some shadowy corporation. but because the only time I play mulitplayer RTS's is when I'm LANning with my friends. so an RTS that wouldnt let me LAN had no value to me. if this new psuedo-LAN is pain-free and doesnt require you to jump through 4 flamming hoops then Starcraft may make it back on to my list. however I would like to see them demonstrate this feature in one of thier video in the future.