Oops feel stupid now that i read the whole thing it says where it is!

Oh wow! I was surprised to see this here, i actually work with Mikal and he brought this in while he was demoing Arduino and all of the things you can do with it to our engineers(and some of their kids)...this was like a month ago and it was barely started...looks great now that hes finished. He did tell us the location this individual needs to goto as well, but i wont ruin it here :)

Intel doesnt advertise as having cutting edge graphics either. For what they are made to do, which is display excel spreadsheets and source code all day on all of our work laptops/desktops they work fine.

So?

10 years ago you paid 25 cents for a can of soda, now its $1, you paid a dollar for a gallon of gas now its $4...

Nvidia is just preemptively striking against Intel.

They know once the Nehelem and Larrabee(Wiki it!) projects come out they will be struggling to keep up.

I love Nvidia and all, hell i have only owned their graphics cards my entire life.

But i think if what Intel is promising with the Larrabee project, with performance gains as large as the difference between P4's and C2D's but instead being above and beyond what Nvidia/ATI benchmarks can supply then the entire gaming community is about to be flipped upside down.

More on Larrabee
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17898

202 as of last friday.

Part of the reason people are buying Zunes because it got better reviews than the iPod Classic 80gb.

Wired recommended the Zune, CNET found them dead even.

The only negatives listed for the Zune were things i dont care about. Being able to run on a Mac for instance, because i dont have one and dont ever plan too(I am a gamer).

The fact that Microsoft announced that Zunes will be able to play XNA games soon just sealed the deal.

You guys need to stop making shit up that nobody owns a Zune...just because we dont have horribly gawdy low quality ear buds hanging from our ears doesnt mean we dont have an MP3 player.

Oh and by the way, every Best Buy in Oregon and Washington is sold out of Zune 80's as of last Friday when i went to buy one..

I had to goto Circuit city and they only had 1 left.

Good thing nobodies buying them. Idiots.

AMD is doing nothing but going downhill lately.

The sad part is that the failures of AMD are in large part to the decisions of their CEO, who i might add they have not fired yet after dropping the ball time and time again. I dont know what fairy dust Ruiz is sprinkling on those Board members to make them forget but its working.

And you guys saying Intel will get investigated for a monopoly need to read up on the laws. You cant get investigated because you release a better product and your competition goes belly up. You get investigated for doing morally wrong or illegal things to force competition to fail. Like if tommorrow Intel cut the price on all their procs by 50% and started selling them at a loss just to force AMD out that is something you get in trouble for.

Overall the Phenom is exactly what the photo shows. Epic Fail. Not only is it not even comparable to current Intel products, its been pushed back, i think this is the 3rd or 4th time now. Intel has its 45nm processors ready to roll with 32nm coming next year and they will just continue to dominate AMD.

With Intel's Larrabee project having so much potential they could potentially give AMD/ATI the final knock out punch when they release their new codename Larrabee(wiki it) graphics card in 2009.

You guys do realize why Nvidia bought AGEIA right?

Because Intel bought Havok and is making a run at the graphics card business with the Larrabee project.

Their idea is to take 24 or more of their Pentium MMX chips which can do all of the math functions at lightning speed, slam them all together onto one board and have it do graphics. From all the info i have heard from people @ Intel it is supposed to crush an 8800GTX in terms of performance, in theory atleast i dont know if they have a working sample in the lab yet or not, although i am sure they do.

Intel hired away many of Nvidia's senior engineers for the project so it shows that they are really serious about making this thing big...with the purchase of Havok the implications of doing physics entirely on the GPU become obvious, they have the code, they have the technology, and they now have the people...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larrabee_%28GPU%29

So keep an eye out for Intel, as you may be putting one of their graphics cards in your next system upgrade in a few years...