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tampa03cobra

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NVIDIA to get official with Fermi GPUs, will 'more than double the performance' of existing cards (Engadget)

Mar 24th 2010 10:31PM I agree that ATI really has Nvidia currently when it comes to bang for the buck, however, there are 2 things that really forced me to run an Nvidia card in my newest build:

No answer to CUDA and their catalyst driver suite is a nightmare of bloat.

The main reason I built a new PC was to encode video. I have easily 4TB worth of video in all sorts of formats, that I wanted to watch using my Iphone. The problem is, the Iphone supports like 1 video format, and almost nothing decent quality comes encoded that way.

With my old Core 2 Duo E5300 and 2 GB of RAM, it took like 32 minutes to encode a 1 hour episode from Xvid to h.264. With Badaboom and an Nvidia GTX260 graphics card, that same encode literally takes 3 minutes. That's a real world 10 fold increase!

I can't think of too many computer upgrades that have such an impact they change the face of what you do, but CUDA support in many applications really does. CUDA works well with ION based netbooks for playback of all sorts of formats.

While yes, the CPU isn't too much slower (Phenom II 955 BE), it's around 5 mins to encode the same video, however, the longer/higher quality the encode, the farther the gap widens, and that CPU is no slouch. Plus using CUDA, I can encode the videos and be using less then 20% of my CPU, so I can continue to do other things without even noticing.

While the Nvidia drivers aren't perfect (seems like whenever I use one that isn't on the driver disc, you get graphics stutter during transitions and such), they are worlds easier to use then the last time I tried the catalyst suite.

Hopefully ATI gets an answer to these two things, because right now, they have Nvidia bent over their knee hardware wise, bang for the buck, and with Eyefinity... If we could just get a CUDA type video encoder that actually works, and a "driver package light" with just the graphics driver, I would go with one of their cards.

Nokia N900 impressively demos WebGL 3D graphics (Engadget)

Dec 3rd 2009 1:57PM ATT 3G bands please!!!

Tmobile's network is a joke in most of the country, their 3G is even more sparse (solid edge tho....). I've never owned a Tmobile phone that could get reception inside a house here in Tampa.

I hear all this talk about Tmobile having HSPA+ .... grats to anyone living in one of the dozen of so cities you can even get Tmobile 3g.

Believe me, I'm no ATT fanboi, only reason I use them is I get a free unlimited everything (including true unlimited data) corporate SIM to put in anything but an Iphone (so I use my Iphone as a MID and use Joikuspot from my 5800 to tether the Iphone).


Nokia phone's are like a fuggin swiss army knife.... Elegant? Not always... Resourceful? Oh yeah

Entelligence: What's the future of Nokia? (Engadget)

Dec 1st 2009 6:57PM @MJGAMER 1991 XBL

Thank you so much!

My eyes no longer feel like they are trying to look at the sun through a telescope!

4iThumbs overlay adds a tactile keyboard to your iPhone... sorta (video) (Engadget)

Nov 25th 2009 4:35PM @(Unverified)

I agree, although owning both an Iphone and a Nokia 5800XM, I will say I love the resistive haptic keyboard much better. Once you adjust to the proper pressure, it makes it much easier to type quickly as you know you hit the key when you feel the vibe.

Everytime I get cooking on an Iphone Ill notice that I missed a letter 3 words back, and the lack of arrow keys is annoying, as moving the cursor by hand just bleh.

The Iphone and it's capacitive screen are amazing for web browsing and games, but for touch screen typing, gimmie a resistive anyday. Pressure sensitivity means your not accidentally hitting keys if you have man size hands.

HP's Obsidian becomes iPAQ Glisten, officially comes to AT&T (Engadget)

Nov 24th 2009 9:35PM @(Unverified)

Symbian tethers the easiest of all on ATT.

Step 1: Download Joikuspot
Step 2: You and anyone else you can choose can access your ATT 3g Connection via Wifi, Computer, other mobile phone, whatever.

(I actually have no SIM in my 3G Iphone and just piggyback off my work paid for 5800XM with a corporate true unlimited SIM (almost 11Gigs of Data last month =0 )

Buffalo now shipping SuperSpeed USB 3.0 external hard drive (Engadget)

Nov 24th 2009 7:08PM @(Unverified)

Looks like you hit that one right over their heads.


I laughed

Stats show Motorola Droid is the new elephant in the Android room (Engadget)

Nov 24th 2009 7:04PM @(Unverified)

Don't think there would be a factual chart showing the Iphone at the top of the marketshare list.

Symbian is still the market leader by a long way, with Winmo in 2nd (but quickly being chipped away by the mobile OSX and Android). So mobile OS X isn't going to be on top.

Even if you want to go by device market share, 5800 XM is probably the top selling smart device world wide (can't find reliable numbers for that though). Remember Asian market = much bigger then USA/Europe.

If you want to talk overall, I bet there are more S40 based dumbphones out there then android and webOS devices combined lol =)


I guess Iphone definitely takes the crown for largest growth device... it's amazing how much ground they have captured in the relatively short time the phone has been out. To each his own..


Proud 5800XM and Iphone 3G owner

BoEye MID700 unveiled with Android OS, vaguely familiar form factor (Engadget)

Nov 11th 2009 11:12PM I'll give apple this, they have a few interface methods that make people love their device... after being a paper weight for months when I got my 5800 XM, I got my Iphone 3g back out (sans SIM, use Joikuspot while out and about and normal Wifi at work and home) and have been impressed with how well the zoom and navigation works.


This goes onto my point... being that I own a real tablet (Latitude XT, multi touch, capacitive with digitizer for a stylus) I can tell you that if I were to buy a device like this, resolution would need to be higher. My vision is pretty damn good, but even if it wern't if you gave the tablet proper graphics support through ION or Tegra (depending on the application) or the like you could implement pinch zoom in the whole OS as a core feature like a mouse cursor would be on a computer.....

I would rather have a 1280x720 6" device then a damn 800x480 8in one, as you could always make most of the screens default to a smaller resolution, or once again take advantage of the native multitouch zoom..... I think it's the only reason why I don't use my $3,000 XT that much, is because it's only 1280x800... not horrible, but when in tablet mode, I find myself wishing I had a vast expanse of screen content to manipulate with my hands.


Remember, resolution > screen size when displaying information, and with multitouch zoom implemented similar to the Iphone (but as a core of the OS) you could effectively double the native resolution of one of these between the pocket and backpack devices while still keeping it practical for prolonged use without eye strain (just like when you used to open doom and it would change the videocard to 640x480).

Myka ION brings Hulu, Boxee and other web content to your TV (Engadget)

Nov 6th 2009 7:20PM I wish they would give me this exact setup, but with either the option to put in a C2D or an empty LGA 775 socket. I would happily underclock a C2D or C2Q for heat reasons and put it in this baby.

Hell even a core2quad underclocked to 1.2ghz per core would still shred an atom... Even my AMD semperon 3000+ with 1GB ram can play Hulu in HD. Just shows you how weak the Atom CPU really is architecture wise. If there was nothing that could be done I wouldn't complain, but the fact that intel has the ability to make a CPU for these types of form factors, but refuses to release it to the market so they can ring out more profits from the Atom is annoying.

T-Mobile 7.2Mbps HSPA rolling out now? (Engadget)

Nov 5th 2009 4:12PM About 1150 KBPS here in Oldsmar, FL, but to be fair I'm inside the Nielsen datacenter with some thick ass walls (several feet of concrete).

Further out west where I live, using joikuspot I'm actually able to get 2200ish kbps download, mostly because I'm right on the edge of ATT 3.5G (according to my 5800 XM) and there is basically no one using the cell tower but me lol.

On average I see about 1900ish kbps.....


It's funny to think back in the day before most of us knew the difference between KBps and kbps we thought that 384k DSL should be (more then enough) and were disappointed getting 70 KBps trying to download real player episodes of pokemon and the doom Id Shareware version lol.

On the plus side, our other internet connection maxes out the network card (tested at almost 94,028 kbps) at night and during the day still doing 45,000 down/14,000 up. (so obviously both the Iphone (with no sim just wifi) and the 5800 are connected to that network).