Astrotoy7 Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 as for the monthly pricing thing, can't you just go to a Rent-to-Buy store and get the same thing??? similar. though with some rent to buy schemes you often pay x3 the amount of the actual kit, which is nearing obsolete by the time you finish 24-36 months contract. It was from such painful experiences I learnt to DIY In this model, they are aiming at low cost where OS functionality is factored in the price. Its already used at enterprise level, eg. workstation licenses that dont have advanced 3D capabilities etc. are cheaper MS are working on revising the patent atm.. Its an interesting idea, though I think will only be limited to certain contexts.. mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urluckyday Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Don't mean to randomly change the subject but who's excited for Windows Mobile 6.5?!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Don't mean to randomly change the subject but who's excited for Windows Mobile 6.5?!! Its been so overhyped... tech sites are starting to calm down now after reporting on it like its actually winMo 7. Its a point revision with some UI tweaks theyre rolling in. The browser is a definite improvement over previous pocketIE, but still nowhere near opera mobile. Im personally more excited about the HTC magic featuring Android as its native OS mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Android is being designed to support the HTPC set? Do tell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negative Sun Posted February 21, 2009 Author Share Posted February 21, 2009 Looks sexy, but still doesn't rival my mighty iPhone! In other news: Intel sues nVidia! ^ Are we really that surprised? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 Android is being designed to support the HTPC set? Do tell! It appears you have been victim to acronym mixup syndrome! HTC is a phone manufacturer, nothing to do with Home Theater PCs alas. Still, there are many OSource HTPC options out there, such as mythbuntu, media portal, elise media center, xbmc etc. When the android SDK evolves enough for it to be customised for htpc functionality, then there will be alot of excited folks out there @negsun. It was on the cards they were going to stouche over something iphones are great media centric devices, but for 'gettin stuff done' winMo, palmOS and and blackberry are just much more rich in function, though somewhat less on bling of course eg. Is Prez Obama using an iphone to run the country? Nope - he's using a blackberry! mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 In other news: Intel sues nVidia! ^ Are we really that surprised? Intel: Wait a sec, NVIDIA. We didn't give you permission to develop chipsets for our Nehalem CPU's. You're going to have to pay us more if you want to do that. NVIDIA: What? No way Intel. Our licensing agreement allows us to develop chipsets for any of your CPU's. Intel: You obviously didn't read the fine print, NVIDIA. Pay us more money or we'll sue your green pants off! NVIDIA: Kiss our green a$$e$ Intel! I think that about sums it up. It appears you have been victim to acronym mixup syndrome! HTC is a phone manufacturer, nothing to do with Home Theater PCs alas. Still, there are many OSource HTPC options out there, such as mythbuntu, media portal, elise media center, xbmc etc. When the android SDK evolves enough for it to be customised for htpc functionality, then there will be alot of excited folks out there I hate it when I do that. And to think, I was getting all excited that there would be another free/low cost OS to run on an HTPC. Oh well, maybe down the yellow brick road a bit further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urluckyday Posted February 22, 2009 Share Posted February 22, 2009 I don't know...I'm a Windows junkie, and I'm pretty excited about it, but I can't wait to get a new phone because Motorola's Q sucks hardcore. I'm gonna pick up the Samsung Omnia w/ WinMo 6.1. It'll be too bad when 6.5 comes out and I can't upgrade...but my Q only has WinMo 5 on it right now anyway...I'm never buying a Motorola phone again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 I'm gonna pick up the Samsung Omnia w/ WinMo 6.1. The sony-ericsson xperia x1 is pretty nice as well...if you prefer devices with a slide out qwerty keypad. mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urluckyday Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 ^I would, but I'm stuck w/ Verizon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urluckyday Posted February 23, 2009 Share Posted February 23, 2009 I would pick up the Samsung Saga if I knew for sure that they would upgrade it to WinMo 6.5 when it came out, but I haven't heard anything about it, so I'll just go w/ my gut instinct and go w/ the Omnia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted February 25, 2009 Share Posted February 25, 2009 I would pick up the Samsung Saga if I knew for sure that they would upgrade it to WinMo 6.5 when it came out, but I haven't heard anything about it, so I'll just go w/ my gut instinct and go w/ the Omnia. Id recommend waiting til the OmniaHDs hit the streets, the omnia should drop in price a smidge For some curious news... check out this Linux based wall socket pc! Specs are ARM-based 1.2GHz Sheeva embedded processor, 512MB of DDR2 memory, 512MB of flash storage, gigabit ethernet and USB 2.0. I know a bunch of htpc fans that are planning on using these for their home server setup. Very snazzy and only uses (an estimated) 10% of the power a normal server pc would use. mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 Curious news indeed! I saw the network diagram on that Slashgear article you linked to but I'm still failing to grasp why someone would want to use this wall socket PC, HTPC enthusiast or otherwise. Network attached storage? Why would someone need a PC to facilitate that when there are plenty of NAS devices readily available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 Network attached storage? Why would someone need a PC to facilitate that when there are plenty of NAS devices readily available? These cost about $100 and use up 10% as much power Youd jump in through remote connection(via Lan) to do it all. People i know are already planning out their setups, some as media server constituents(as a NAS), others as a 'torrentbox'....whatever that is mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 Heads up, guys. It seems that some people are unlocking PII X3s to full X4s on certain 780/790 motherboards. There are on-going threads about this at both Anandtech and XtremeSystems.org (as well as other places, I'm sure), so this isn't a fluke. X3 710s are going for $114 right now at Newegg, which is a damn good deal even without unlocking the fourth core. Cheap quad-core, anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 Heads up, guys. Cheap quad-core, anyone? Boy, someone at AMD is going to get reamed for that. I wish people could figure out how to enable the locked out cores on mid end GPUs mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q Posted February 28, 2009 Share Posted February 28, 2009 That ended with the 6800 series when Nvidia started cutting the circuits to the disabled pipelines with a laser. This discovery is still only a couple of days old. If it's revealed as the rule instead of the exception, it would seem to indicate that AMD is getting far better yields with their 45NM process than anyone anticipated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 That ended with the 6800 series when Nvidia started cutting the circuits to the disabled pipelines with a laser. I wonder why ATI didnt do the same thing for the X3s? mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 just a quick FYI Vista Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 1 is out now More info on SP2 at MS technet Final version due later this quarter, we're told mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingerhs Posted March 5, 2009 Share Posted March 5, 2009 still nothing radical with the Vista Service Packs. i guess they're saving the fireworks for Windows 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted March 6, 2009 Share Posted March 6, 2009 Theyre essentially hotfix packs stinger I like W7, but I wouldnt recommend getting too excited about it. There are some definite enhancements in their for niche users...eg. tablet pc and htpc, networking. I think most people wont notice the difference if they have a stable vista rig. W7 RC is due April, so we'll see if they do any more cosmetic tweaking in that mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urluckyday Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 ^A lot of SP generally rollup all of the previous updates into one package to make it easier to update everyone's PC as well. I've only gotten excited for one SP ever...Vista SP1...simply because it perfected Vista in my eyes...otherwise...SP's are nothing special to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 What's everybody's take on this year's CeBIT? Looks like the rumors of a GT300 announcements from NVIDIA during CeBIT turned out to be just that. Maybe Q3 this year? Seeing as how Windows 7 looks like it's shaping up for a late 2009 release I'm looking for DirectX 11 support whenever NVIDIA does end up announcing their newest graphics technology. Of course NVIDIA announced new versions of their mobile GPU's as well as the GTS 250, which turned out to be a rebadged 9800 GTX+ for the most part. I was excited to see AMD announce 40 nm process GPU's, even if they were for the mobile graphics market segment. Makes me wonder if they will be announcing 40 nm versions of their desktop graphics cards before too long. And then AMD completed the spinoff of their fabs this past week, finally announcing the name of their joint venture with ATIC as *drum roll* GLOBALFOUNDRIES. Alrighty then. Let's see if the injection of fresh capital can put the now independent chipmaker into a competitive position against the TSMC's of the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urluckyday Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 CAN'T WAIT FOR WINDOWS 7...btw. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingerhs Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 What's everybody's take on this year's CeBIT?meh, nothing too terribly exciting. it had some good news, but it just didn't have much in it that got me excited. @urluckyday - why?? still using Windows 95 or something?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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