Partial's Technology Buzz

[Zool]

My 37" was $1699 at Bestbuy.

I also see that Viewsonic has some coming out. Havent found a price range yet.

[Tony Oday]

yah thats a little pricy for a bedroom TV. I dont care if it is a flat TV just a flat screen im looking to keep it below $500.

[Partial]

I got a new fan for it even. I got a 400watt Antec PS thinking that might be it. Its fine most of the time, but when playing Oblivion for a while it slows down then the monitor goes blank for 5 minutes.

I thought maybe it was my monitor, but I tested that too. Cant be the processor or the system would lock.

I just thought of something. Maybe its the OC on the processor. Maybe I have the clock speed set wrong.

I'll have to check tonight.

how many watts does the card take? That seems like a very weak power supply given you're obviously pushing your cpu, gpu to the max. My guess is that is where your problem comes into play. Are you getting screen artifacts?

[Partial]

I got a new fan for it even. I got a 400watt Antec PS thinking that might be it. Its fine most of the time, but when playing Oblivion for a while it slows down then the monitor goes blank for 5 minutes.

I thought maybe it was my monitor, but I tested that too. Cant be the processor or the system would lock.

I just thought of something. Maybe its the OC on the processor. Maybe I have the clock speed set wrong.

I'll have to check tonight.

are you overclocking your graphics card too? if so, LOCK your bus speed on the GPU. Do it strictly through a software overclock. Otherwise you can screw up your card.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

Apple Computer sucks.
Go Microsoft!!!!

[Anti-Polar Bear]

Should i buy and 360 or wait for the ps3?

I am learning toward the 360 since Bill Gates is a liberal, whereas Sony is a Japenese firm (not that theres anything wrong with that; i have a ps2 and enjoys it, although their controllers are not durable, as Ive to replace like 10 of them due to my addiction to madden).

[Partial]

Impossible to predict. We won't know how much prettier the PS3 is gonna look until dev kits are out for longer. If you don't have an HDTV, its not going to make any difference. I would recommend a Wii myself, Madden just sounds ridiculously fun on that.

[Partial]

Apple Computer sucks.
Go Microsoft!!!!

Microsoft doesn't make computers. OS X is as close to computing bliss as one can be. Not only is it beautiful, it's extremely flexible, reliable, and stable. I haven't rebooted my computer since I bought it. It has all the benefits of Linux, without any of the headache. Not to mention when you buy an Apple, you get a ton of great free software with it. The software they provide is integrated so well with one another, down to the ease of emailing photos, or adding a date with a contact to your calender, to drag-and-drop file transfers over your chat client. It's awesome. You can say what you want, but Apple has top-notch build quality, is competitive in price now-a-days(especially for students), runs windows natively, and now they finally have competitive, quality processors (Intel stuff. Same thing Dell and everyone else uses. Once Core 2 Duo gets released next month, they will be even faster). Everyone knocks Apple for their price, and I will say they're probably 100-200 more expensive then a similiarly spec'd dell. That's fine, they're not after the dell crowd. Apple is all about quality. You cannot even compare a 2 inch thick inspiron laptop to a MacBook Pro. The only company that could touch Apple in build quality is IBM, and since they've sold their soul to lenovo, Apple takes the cake.

[Tony Oday]

APB I love the 360 for nothign else than oblivion that is an intense game. MAdden looked good on it but was a rushed release. I have played almost every game on it, i have gamefly, and they all look great. not the revolution I thought it would be but still great on a 60" TV playing MLB baseball is great fun.

PS3 will more than likely have more games but depends on the genre of the games you like. If its sports and thats it I would be too anxious for Madden this year so 360.

In the end I am getting both and prolly the Wii as well for the wife.

[Iron Mike]

Looking for an HD monitor for the bedroom.

I already have a 60 inch TV for the NFL ticket downstairs. I upgraded my Direct TV HD reciever so I have an extra one. Im looking for something between 27" and 32".

Since I already have a tuner I would think that would get me some savings. Where and what would you suggest?

I'd suggest you have me over for some beers and Packers this fall....

[Harlan Huckleby]

A blackberry is essentially a PDA with wifi and 802.x wireless built right in. It works as a cellphone and it will connect with email servers. It also has a web browser built in, tho I find the browser clumsy at best. Its best feature is that its basically a portable email machine.

ok, thanks. I don't know anybody who has one.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

Apple Computer sucks.
Go Microsoft!!!!

Microsoft doesn't make computers. OS X is as close to computing bliss as one can be. Not only is it beautiful, it's extremely flexible, reliable, and stable. I haven't rebooted my computer since I bought it. It has all the benefits of Linux, without any of the headache. Not to mention when you buy an Apple, you get a ton of great free software with it. The software they provide is integrated so well with one another, down to the ease of emailing photos, or adding a date with a contact to your calender, to drag-and-drop file transfers over your chat client. It's awesome. You can say what you want, but Apple has top-notch build quality, is competitive in price now-a-days(especially for students), runs windows natively, and now they finally have competitive, quality processors (Intel stuff. Same thing Dell and everyone else uses. Once Core 2 Duo gets released next month, they will be even faster). Everyone knocks Apple for their price, and I will say they're probably 100-200 more expensive then a similiarly spec'd dell. That's fine, they're not after the dell crowd. Apple is all about quality. You cannot even compare a 2 inch thick inspiron laptop to a MacBook Pro. The only company that could touch Apple in build quality is IBM, and since they've sold their soul to lenovo, Apple takes the cake.

Microsoft Windows still beat whatever crap progamming that comes out of Apple. Heck, Apple is allowing the intergatation of Windows into their computer now.

[Partial]

They are allowing their computers to dual-boot, yes. This is a good business decision for them, as I am sure there are many people who want to switch but are hesistant to. This way, you get the best of both worlds.

OS X uses a Free BSD (Unix) kernel. Windows Vista was scheduled to be built around something similiar, and infact promised to be for quite some time. Microsoft's engineer's failed to live up to yet another promise, though, and couldn't get the job done.

[Zool]

He's obviously baiting you for a psuedo argument Partial, or he's a really that clueless.

I would own only Mac's myself if games actually existed on them, and if the hardware prices werent so high. I realize that laptops are about the same now but desktops are still too high with limited-no upgradability.

My mom surfs the web and checks email. She has a Mac and I have very little tech support to do for her. Its nice.

[Tony Oday]

I would take a Mac but no fun for gaming and such. They are a better machine.