Negative Sun Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share Posted April 27, 2009 I don't know Astro, check out the new phone my fiancee got yesterday, even this Iphone fanboy is drooling all over it!!! HTC Touch HD Specs: * Screen size: 3.8 in (97 mm) (!!!) * Screen resolution: 480 x 800 WVGA (pwnage!!!) * Input devices: Resistive touchscreen, Capacitive touch-sensitive front panel buttons. * Battery: 1350 mAh * Talk time: 310 minutes (GSM) to 390 minutes (WCDMA) * Standby time: 390 hours (GSM) to 450 hours (WCDMA) * Video call time: 120 minutes * 5 megapixel rear-facing camera with autofocus, VGA CMOS color front-facing camera for video calls * GPS and A-GPS * Qualcomm MSM 7201A 528 MHz ARM processor * RAM: 288 MB * ROM: 512 MB * microSD slot (SDHC compatible) (8Gb included) * Operating system: Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional * Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900) * Dual band UMTS/HSDPA (3.5G)/HSUPA (UMTS 900, UMTS 2100) * Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) * Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR & A2DP * Mini USB (HTC ExtUSB) * 3.5 mm audio jack, microphone, speaker * FM radio * Size: 115 mm (4.5 in) (h) 62.8 mm (2.47 in) (w) 12 mm (0.47 in) (d) * Weight: 146.4 g (5.16 oz) with battery It combines the sexiness of the almighty Iphone with the customisability and power of windows mobile. I might steal it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Man, I hate phones, but that is just fat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 NVIDIA appears to be getting the squeeze from their chief competitors in the chipset arena. Intel has already asserted that NVIDIA isn't licensed to make chipsets for Nehalem processors and has filed suit against NVIDIA. Now an AMD exec has apparently gone on record saying NVIDIA isn't licensed to make chipsets for AMD's future CPU's. betanews - Nvidia's licensing situation with AMD is just as bad as with Intel In OS news, Microsoft has revealed they will release a Windows XP Mode for Windows 7, using Virtual PC. This will apparently be available as a free download to owners of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate. CNET News - Windows 7 to have an 'XP mode' I was thinking I would need to dual boot XP and Windows 7 for a while but maybe I won't have to (I plan on getting Windows 7 Pro). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted April 28, 2009 Share Posted April 28, 2009 NVIDIA appears to be getting the squeeze from their chief competitors in the chipset arena. lolz... that almost makes it look like AMD and Intel are agreeing on something In OS news.. Microsoft has revealed they will release a Windows XP Mode for Windows 7, using Virtual PC.... You youngsters, never reading ole Uncle Astro's posts fully Check my post above with the pic of the 295 in the shuttle @negsun.. I would take the touchHD over the iphone anyday, though I think if I had the luxury of choice, I might just take the omnia HD over the touch HD Still, Ive seen Android in action on a HTC Magic and its nothing to be sneezed at by any means... MS have their work cutout to catchup with WinMO7. The HTC/Samsung touch interface add-ons only go so far to dress up the dated winMO interface. At this stage though, no plans to move away from my htc touch dual. I like its size..perfect for my hand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 My bad. I guess I just focused on the GT 300 news in your post and didn't pay attention to the rest. If I post about AMD launching the first 40nm discrete graphics card for the desktop PC market segment in the HD 4770 will that make up for it? DailyTech - ATI Launches Radeon HD 4770 Video Card Using 40nm RV740 GPU Guru3d - ATI Radeon HD 4770 review While it looks like AMD is successfully making the transition to 40 nm with its GPU's I really question whether or not NVIDIA will be able to do the same with GT 300. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted May 1, 2009 Share Posted May 1, 2009 While it looks like AMD is successfully making the transition to 40 nm with its GPU's I really question whether or not NVIDIA will be able to do the same with GT 300. I dont think theyd be fussed if they caught up a bit later... they didnt embrace GDDR5 with as much gusto, it still didnt stop them cranking out the most powerful single GPU device on the market... speaking of nvidia, looks like theyve scored a winner with the ion platform... the buzz around which is quite phenomenal. All those poor mini-itx users out there, paying throigh the nose ......behold what mass production market-bombing does to their boutique little niche mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted May 2, 2009 Share Posted May 2, 2009 Just a FYI for those keeping an eye on W7 To recap : *We all know leaked 7100 RC1 has been out about a week now on p2p *Technet subscribers got the official 7100 RC1 Build yesterday(April 30) *Official Public release 5th may Here are a coouple of great blog entries on MSDN about changes from public beta build 7000 that was released a few months ago Page 1 Page 2 EDIT: Here's the official download link for RC1 from MS. Youre probably best off launching this in IE so you can use the activex download applet as sometimes FF download manager may lose the plot over a larger download. You'll of course need your windows live ID(eg. a hotmail address etc) if you want to get it from here directly. Came through at the full speed my connection allowed http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 According to a report on bit-tech NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says NVIDIA has three 40 nm products in production and that NVIDIA is "ramping 40nm probably harder than anybody" with more 40 nm products coming shortly. Huang said he expects around 25 to 30 percent of all Nvidia's shipping GPUs to be based on the new 40nm process by the end of the year, with the rest being 55nm based as the company's 65nm inventory is almost cleared. This suggests that at least one of these products will be relatively high-volume and it's expected that the company's next flagship chip, GT300, will also be based on the new node. I for one question whether GT300 will be on 40 nm process. I don't claim to be an electronics engineer or anything even remotely close but I was under the impression that it was extraordinarily challenging to design a new chip architecture on a new process, hence the reason Intel uses its tick-tock strategy. I guess we'll see how things turn out in the next few months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingerhs Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 ^^^^ sounds like they'll be launching the GT300 initially based on a 55nm part. with AMD pushing back the launch of the new 5800 series of Radeons to the holiday season, i think it would be reasonable to assume that a 40nm die-shrink of the GT300 will be launching about the same time as the 5800 series to try and take some wind out of AMD's sails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted May 13, 2009 Share Posted May 13, 2009 Whilst GT300 will likely be unleashed on 55nm, I think nvidia could have waited it out and worked on the 40nm part instead. The GTX295 can handle most things you can throw at it more than adequately even at 1080p. It can also fold like a super origami master, so theres no huge need, apart from that which stirs in fanboys loins *continues waiting for GT300* speaking of fanboys, AMD fans worldwide(this one included) popped open a bottle of e-champagne when Intel was fined $1.45 BILLION USD for messing with AMD on certain antitrust and pricing matters... Intel of course plan an appeal but it did bring some cheer to see them finally being called out on their business practises.... source: BBC News mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingerhs Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 and apparently, AMD's strategy to hold people over is to offer overclocked versions of their 4890's. today marks the day of the 1GHz GPU that AMD developed as a reference board that will soon be heading out to third-party manufacturers and onto shelves. no word as to what kind of performance these things will have, but i can imagine that it'll be pretty impressive. the biggest questions at this point: how much will it cost, and will it be enough to hamper expectations for Nvidia's GT300?? source article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted May 15, 2009 Share Posted May 15, 2009 seeing the GT300 has been delayed to Q4 2009, or possibly Q1 2010, if the 1Ghz 4890 can match or beat performance and price of the 295, then it will do ok. Looking, forward to those benchies, definitely. In other news, nvidia has reported a $201 million loss in Q1 of 2009. Apparently, their CEO is not that worried.... source mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 If you havent checked it out yet, Google's Chrome browser has now reached version2 and is touted as being 20% faster than Google 1. Considering G1 was already pretty quick, it definitely is worth checking out More info on Chrome 2 at the above link or in this vid at lifehacker mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 Windows Vista Service Pack 2 went public recently. Check the updates thread for more info and download links. In other news... ASUS has announced its MARS GPU which comprises dual GTX 285s and no less than 4GB VRAM with 240 shader processors... No benchies or price yet, will be unveiled properly at Computex >> source Not sure what 4GB > 2GB or less will actually do as far as games performance. Will wait to see what the benchies reveal... Those interested in the GT300 - Here's an interesting article from Bright Side of News: nVidia GT300 already taped out, A1 silicon in Santa Clara seems like these are the (likely) final specs: 512 cores, 512-bit memory controller, 256GB/s to 280GB/s of bandwidth on the non-overclocked parts. Still no confirmation on release date or price of course...but it's getting closer mtfbwya mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted May 30, 2009 Share Posted May 30, 2009 I know I'm not interested in heavily customized graphics cards products from Asus or anybody else. Interesting news on GT300. If they're on A1 silicon then I guess we'll likely see something before the end of the year, assuming the reported problems with yields on TSMC 40nm process don't get in the way. Of course, I'm still surprised that all indicators point towards GT300 being on 40nm process to begin with. In other news, bit-tech reports that Intel will be discontinuing Core i7 920 and 940 processors when Lynnfield becomes available on September 1. That means I just need to hold out a while longer on my PC upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 That means I just need to hold out a while longer on my PC upgrade. The combination of shuttle not supporting phenom in their high end gaming rig and the meandering pace of team green releasing the GT300 has put my upgrade plans into a state of turmoil The asus MARS will probably be as effective as the extra 1GB on the 2GB edition on the 4870X2 Still, benchies will be able to verify one way or the other mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 I just re-read my last post and feel compelled to offer some clarification. I'm not interested in purchasing a heavily customized graphics card from Asus or any other manufacturer. As a moderate computer geek however I am quite interested in this kind of stuff. That may have not been clear in my prior post. Because seriously, the Asus MARS is one monster of a graphics card solution and if power consumption and money weren't factors then who wouldn't want to have a card like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingerhs Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 ^^^^ me thinks that you wouldn't want to buy a VHS tape anyway. in all seriousness, has anybody heard about the Core i5's from Intel? i heard something about them from one site, but nobody seems to have a review up yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Because seriously, the Asus MARS is one monster of a graphics card solution and if power consumption and money weren't factors then who wouldn't want to have a card like that. It would be a nice folder if anything I just read at engadget that having been unveiled at Computex 2009 today, asus announced they will be a limited edition and only 1000 will be made available ! You can imagine what that will do to the price @stinger, I havent encountered anything in detail in English Wont be long though mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Look here. I think that the pricing of the entire platform (CPU, MOBO, RAM) will determine whether or not it's worth buying compared to PII or even C2D and C2Q. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrotoy7 Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 I dont want to waste too much breath on intel, but in the article above Anandtech states: With a 2.66GHz Lynnfield and a $100 P55 motherboard you now have the ability to deliver a good quad-core system at around $150 - $200 cheaper than the cheapest Core i7. Price-wise the 2.66GHz Lynnfield would be priced cheaper than today's Core 2 Quad Q9400, and as you'll see Lynnfield is clearly a faster bet. The 2.80GHz Lynnfield should also be able to outperform the i7-920 without a problem, at a lower total system cost as well. Doesnt AT think the market prices of i7(and phenom for that matter) will switch to adjust ?? For the gaming market, the GPU upgrade is still the golden nugget people will see most joy from - everyone else will either be getting lower end kit(mom n dad off the shelfers), or have high end professonal systems where pricetags are of secondary concern to performance. mtfbwya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 Doesnt AT think the market prices of i7(and phenom for that matter) will switch to adjust ?? Word on the web is Intel will adjust by discontinuing lower end Core i7 products like the 920 and 940 since the upcoming Lynnfield CPU's perform just as well or better. Not sure what AMD will do other than undercut Intel's pricing as much as they can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingerhs Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 ^^^^ well, seeing that AMD's 6-core server chips are getting released early, i don't think it would be much of a stretch to say that the desktop versions aren't very far behind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Char Ell Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 Do tell. Come on stinger. Don't hold out on us. Give us the scoop man! Is AMD finally positioning themselves to compete with Intel on the high-end? I'm all ears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stingerhs Posted June 4, 2009 Share Posted June 4, 2009 sorry about that. i guess most sites aren't seeing this as big news. link here unfortunately, no benchies just yet. still 34% performance gain by just adding two cores (assuming that AMD isn't fudging the numbers)?? apply that to the PII lineup, and you've got a chip that will go toe-to-toe with the current i7's. there's no way you can convince me otherwise that AMD isn't going to put 6-core Phenoms in the fast lane with that kind of performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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