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EVGA intros sub-$100 UV12 and UV16 USB graphics adapters {Engadget}
May 6th 2008 11:09AM No, it has an onboard graphics chip. The lag time to send data to the GPU and then back out the USB port would be prohibitive.
As always, my company sells the DisplayLink version of this (http://www.datapro.net/products/usb-to-dvi-video-adapter.html) starting at $89.00. We've got some other kind of cool stuff too. Mention Engadget in the comments and I'll make sure you get a free shipping upgrade ;D
Averatec reveals a pair of ruggedized Voya laptops {Engadget}
Apr 23rd 2008 11:06AM I'm not entirely sure you understand what this is for. It's not meant as a competitor to the cheapo Dell you bought, it's targeted more at the Toughbook/XFR crowd. Compared to either of those, it's amazingly cheap.
Also I notice there's no picture. Hot tip to pretty much any company that announces anything, ever - if you don't have pictures, no one cares. I almost missed this article because it's only picture was the company's logo. If there was a picture, I'd go "hey that's kind of cool, maybe I'll get one when it comes out." As it is, I went to their web site, couldn't find any information or pictures, and in about fifteen minutes I'm going to forget all about it. Bam, instant lost customer. Sad :(
Palm to begin beta testing on new device say emails {Engadget}
Apr 22nd 2008 2:14AM Man..I really like Palm, and it makes me so sad to keep seeing them put out rehashed, unstable crud.
I had a Palm V back in the day. First time I saw one I nearly crapped my pants. It was so thin, so sleek, so functional...I went out and bought one immediately. Used it for years too.
Find whoever designed the Palm V, fire everyone on the current design team (or the management that's not letting them make anything new), and make something inspiring again.
IOGEAR intros USB 2.0 external DVI video card {Engadget}
Apr 22nd 2008 2:01AM Yet another DisplayLink-based product! There are two models, I think they use the same chipset and just have different amounts of RAM (the better one has 128mb, I think the lesser one is 64mb). They'll do 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 respectively, on DVI or VGA. You can see most of the companies that make them on DisplayLink's site, along with beta drivers for OSX - http://www.displaylink.com
These work fine for anything but gaming. They'll run fullscreen video alright, and I did get World of Warcraft playing on one -- nothing pretty, but it ran. The OSX drivers are lacking support for a couple of things, but they're also good enough for whatever most office users will be doing.
And a quick plug, we sell both kinds, at very reasonable prices here:
http://www.datapro.net/products/usb-to-dvi-video-adapter.html
Mention Engadget in the comments and I'll upgrade your shipping and possibly throw something fun into the order :D
Gefen's USB-to-DVI adapter handles UXGA {Engadget}
Mar 19th 2008 4:22PM As long as you're converting to CAT5, why not just get a DVI over CAT5 extender?
http://www.techonweb.com/products/productdetail.aspx?id=A00TN1&src=FG
Gefen's USB-to-DVI adapter handles UXGA {Engadget}
Mar 19th 2008 4:22PM As long as you're converting to CAT5, why not just get a DVI over CAT5 extender?
http://www.techonweb.com/products/productdetail.aspx?id=A00TN1&src=FG
Gefen's USB-to-DVI adapter handles UXGA {Engadget}
Mar 19th 2008 1:58PM This looks like just a relabeled version of what my company sells - for $10 less even.
http://www.datapro.net/products/usb-to-dvi-video-adapter.html
It works surprisingly well. 3D support isn't amazing or anything, but I got it running World of Warcraft.
Blizzard cracks down on Arena pet naming exploit {WOW Insider}
Feb 28th 2008 6:11PM God I hate when people say something like "Blizzard has spoken, thus it shall be" Blizzard isn't in charge, their job is to make a good game, and cater to us - their customers, and by extension, their parent company's shareholders. Even moreso than any other game developer, because we keep paying even after we've bought the game. I also see people occasionally refer to violations of the terms of service as "illegal"...don't do that.
Today in Joystiq: January 17, 2008 {Joystiq}
Jan 18th 2008 3:35PM Yeah...wearing baggy clothing is so IN right now. Excuse me while I go sag my pants and listen to some grunge.
Hands-on with Savant's $35000 ROSIE Coffee Table {Engadget}
Sep 10th 2007 2:04PM I played with it at CEDIA and it was utter crap. The interface is ugly as sin, it doesn't have multi-touch (sales guy: "uh...it has quasi-multi-touch, like, if you touch it, you can still touch it somewhere else"), it's slow, and basically all it does is act as a big coffee table-sized remote control.
Basically it just runs off of a Mac that's stored somewhere else in your house. Apparently you can connect up to eight devices to one Mac. I'm not sure how that works physically, maybe some kind of breakout box.
But yeah, it looked more like some kind of OSS project than a retail product. I was really disappointed.
