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PowerColor PCS HD4850 graphics card packs 2GB of memory {Engadget}
Jul 14th 2008 7:24PM Twice as much is "a little more" now?
The rv770 is nearly as fast as gtx280 and the die is only a fraction of the size. aka: ATI's engineers blew NVidia's out of the water.
GTX280 is insanely expensive to produce (because the yield is terrible, because the die is HUGE), and NVidia cutting the price on it is going to cost both them and their partners in margins.
ATI wins this round.
PhysX layer running on AMD Radeon 3870, utility available "soon" {Engadget}
Jun 30th 2008 12:55AM Bullshit.
CUDA binaries do NOT just fly easily from one TOTALLY DIFFERENT architecture to another.
This is like someone saying OH YEAH I MOVED THIS EXTREMELY TIME SENSITIVE CODE FROM ARM TO x86 WITHOUT AN EMULATOR AND NOW IT RUNS FASTER, IT WAS EASY LOL.
There is a disassembler for CUDA binaries but then they would need an assembler for AMD video cards. And detailed knowledge of EXACTLY how they work (which is NDAed). And since they claim AMD were not involved, somehow I doubt that.
Engadget's WWDC 2008 predictions {Engadget}
Jun 9th 2008 10:09AM There was a reason. I owned one. They had a lot of quality control issues (i.e. the infamous IVAD cable), and they weren't exactly performance monsters.
They were also pretty loud (they had one ENORMOUS fan in the back to cool the whole system) and hamstrung by a 32MB GeForce 2 MX.
In hindsight, buying a used G4 tower at the time would have been a better deal.
As for their intended market (education) it was too little, too late. Most schools had already begun to implement a plan for Windows rollout, as educational applications began to support Windows.
Windows was (and still is) easier to manage in a school/corporate environment thanks to Active Directory and years of development behind products like LANDesk.
NetInfo works, if you can figure it out (it's used so little that there's only a tiny fraction of information available compared to LDAP/ActiveDirectory), and Apple Remote Desktop works, but it's not nearly as fully-featured as LANDesk and its competitors.
Had Apple released a cheap Mac before educational software providers were pressured into providing a Windows version of their software, they might have remained the leading force in K-12 education, but they missed the boat.
Sony's HDR-SR12 1080/60 camcorder gets reviewed {Engadget}
Mar 31st 2008 9:07PM "The only other potential dealbreaker is the fixed 60i framerate, but if shooting in 30p or 24p isn't important to you"
The article is worded wrongly then; "if shooting in 30p or 24p isn't important to you" makes it sound as though the camera is literally fixed at 60i, not simply lacking 60p.
Sony's HDR-SR12 1080/60 camcorder gets reviewed {Engadget}
Mar 31st 2008 9:00PM ... Wait, 1080p + 60i only = 1080i, right?
How is the camera 1080p if the only recording it will do is... interlaced?
