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RUN!!!! As far away as possible.]]>Feb 24th 2007 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/Feb 24th 2007 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/Feb 24th 2007 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/Feb 24th 2007 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/Feb 25th 2007 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/
* 1998 - $1.7 billion
* 1999 - $1.9 billion
* 2000 - $1.78 billion (84.9 million units)
* 2001 - $1.75 billion (83.6 million units)
* 2002 - $1.4 billion (61.5 million units)
* 2003 - $1.2 billion (52.8 million units)
* 2004 - $1.1 billion (45 million units)
* 2005 - $953 million (38 million) [5] + $344 million digital sales [6]
* 2006 - $970 million [7]

Source: "Decline of PC game sales in the US" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_PC_game_sales_in_the_US

Only male, dork, losers, that still live in their parents' basements, still have the desire or ability to invest the money required to pursue a hobby with such a high cost:benefit ratio. It's not rich people. Rich people don't play games on their PCs.

I see your sort with my own eyes all the time: you're a bunch of freaks. In the last 2 years or so, I've not met a SINGLE PC gamer that wasn't a weirdo in some way.]]>Feb 24th 2007 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/
PC Gaming a waste of money? All entertainment is a waste of money if you're going to be so objective about it. When I go to a bar I don't wake up the next morning and say, "Oh man, I have so much to show for that night out." The enjoyment you get while playing is what you paid for.

There are millions of PC gamers. I'm sure you'll find that if you gathered up every male dork living in his mom's basement together, it would not even remotely constitute the number of PC gamers.

Perhaps you should use your brain a little more before making rambling criticisms.]]>Feb 24th 2007 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/Feb 24th 2007 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/Feb 24th 2007 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/Feb 24th 2007 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/Feb 24th 2007 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/
You clicked through to this article with the title "Intel's Crestline integrated graphics to run DirectX 10", what confuses me is just exactly what is interesting about this article to you since you are obviously not in the "gamer" camp. Do you really have nothing better to do with your time? If this is true, then you Brian are the social reject.

That aside, your statement is entirely inaccurate, heres why.

Lets say you buy a game for $50 that you will play for 100 hours in its lifetime. Lets also say that every 2 and a half years this hobby requires an investment of $500, and we'll assume that the total enjoyment from this investment is about 500 hours, which is probably a low estimate. This would mean that the hourly cost/benefit ratio is about $1.50 per hour. Granted that this is a back of the envelope calculation, but the point is pretty clear.]]>Feb 25th 2007 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/What is a PS3 but an expensive computer
A computer that has a small percentage of the computing power of a pc and all you can do is play games and watch movies...Boring, Try doing your taxes on your PS3!!
Eventualy there will be no consoles
The people that create games like crysis know this and thats why they spend so much of there resorces on PC games

Why do you think microsoft started up the Games for Windows program
Because there smart, Because when the xbox and playstation consoles are no longer economicly fesable and discontiue production, microsoft will be left being basicly the only way to play games (unless you play on your retro console)

True Gamers need monster gaming Rigs, Not 6 year old toy boxs
PC can produce games in 4X the resolution of the so called ps3 or Xbox 360

If you want to see the true power of the PC check out this PC ONLY game
It has been 100% confirmed to the best looking game ever from any console in the history of mankind up to this point www.Crysis-online.com
Check out all the screenshots and videos

PC gaming is going nowhere but up from this point on (id put money on it)

If you want to reply you better know what your talking about]]>Mar 20th 2007 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/-Brian

well then Brian, you need to get out more.]]>Feb 24th 2007 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/
Well this isn't totally true. There are still Amega crackers around today, working on cracking Wii titles and such. As long as there have been people selling computer games, there have been groups out there cracking and releasing them. It's just that it used to be more of a closed group because the majority of trading of games were done on (somewhat) closely guarded BBS boards (although Hong Kong has always has a history of selling physical piracy... I'm sure there are other places as well). Even then it could take days to download a couple floppies worth of data to complete one game =p.

However with speed and space increases over the years and somewhat anonominity (depending on the method used), comes a time where anyone with a decent connection can download nearly everything over usenet or bittorrent (or bounced + sftp'd access to a topsite if you have that rare l33tness =p, which I used to have when I was younger and didn't have a better use for my time).

Support the gaming industry!

- Tony R.]]>Feb 24th 2007 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/
Console gaming is becoming easier, and most of the games you can play on a PC can now be done just as easily, and much more seamlessly on a console (and don't give me a keyboard vs gamepad argument, I said MOST).]]>Feb 24th 2007 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/
Anyhow, I just got an Integrated Graphics PC capable of Vista, and it's not choppy or slow, for a Work PC there's nothing wrong with it, keep away if you're a gamer though.

Oh, and look out for AGP boards on those suckers too, might be hard considering the lack of motherboard information on a boxed PC.]]>Feb 24th 2007 9:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/Feb 24th 2007 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/
NO WAI!
YA WAI!
O RLY?
YA RLY!

:HEAD EXPLODES:]]>Feb 24th 2007 10:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/Feb 24th 2007 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/
We're rare (as rare as a new PC game that's any good), but still.

I'd like to think the decline in PC game sales has more to do with games like OMG YET ANOTHER WW2 FPS and YAY EVEN MORE OF THE SAME RTS YOU'VE PLAYED SINCE WARCRAFT.

Innovation: not the PC gaming world's strong point these days.]]>Feb 24th 2007 11:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/Feb 24th 2007 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/Feb 25th 2007 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/
Owning a computer several years ago was considered geeky, but how times has changed. Some of you people should keep with the times.

PC game dead!?! WOW has about 8 million subscriber, and growing, charging around 20 bucks a month...do the math and see how much ridiculus money they make. And if you don't know WOW, you should watch South Park.
]]>Feb 25th 2007 2:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/Feb 26th 2007 4:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/
Console game hacks are a much lesser threat, as using them often involves some sort of console mods. It's not much of a technical hurdle, but enough to turn off the lowest of the genepool; doesn't help that buying these usually require the use of credit cards through online stores.]]>Feb 25th 2007 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/Feb 25th 2007 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/
"...is indeed DirectX 10 compatible."

Compatible, but will it be competitive?]]>Feb 25th 2007 5:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/
All I have to say is that I am using the integrated graphics on my board, which are GeForce 6150 and Aero runs fantastic.

I think people underestimate current integrated graphics. A lot of them aren't that bad. And in case you are wondering, my system's Vista experience index for Aero graphics is 3.6 and for games/3D it is 3.0.

That is fine for me until I get another card. I have not experienced a single issue, and my Aero experience would be identical on a GeForce 8800 as this one runs perfectly. Obviously games would not be the same, but I don't play games, I use my computer for work, so that doesn't matter to me.]]>Feb 28th 2007 2:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/intels-crestline-integrated-graphics-to-run-directx-10/
http://allaboutlaptop.info]]>Mar 24th 2007 9:25AM