performance (with the P4 3.02 ghz and 1gigabyte of ram) and size - 6" by 7"
by 12" - a Shuttle XPC small form factor machine. Now it has a decent
video card and sound card, its pretty good. and not too big.
larry
At 05:02 PM 12/9/2003, you wrote:
>I spent ~$330 on my homebuilt desktop. I use it almost exclusively for
>games. I can build 9 more before I hit the price of yours.
>
>:-)
>
>Of course, I can't carry it anywhere easily.
>
>I used to be all about buying as much as I could afford, now it's buy as
>little as I need to do what I need now, and buy more often as tech
>requirements go up. I find that now I spend a fraction of what it cost
>before and I'm actually more current.
>
>But I'm envious of laptops. Although that beast of yours weighs like 10
>pounds I'll bet.
>
>-Kevin
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Shawn Regan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 3:18 PM
>Subject: RE: Doom III
>
> > I spent 3,300 on the laptop it has a RAIDEON 9000 video card in it.
> >
> > And I use it for games and I also develop apps on it.
> >
> > :)
> >
> > Shawn
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Schuster, Steven [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 11:26 AM
> > To: CF-Community
> > Subject: RE: Doom III
> >
> >
> > Beancounter: "Why do you need to spend 3,300 on a video card again?"
> >
> >
> > IT: "Well, you see, the raster-based content requires a separate memory
> > space other than motherboard allocated memory to conduct vector
> > calculations. In doing so it is also best to have a cooled unit to ensure
> > the card does not overheat from the vector bit differences that can
> > accumulate in on-board cache which will inevitably slow my current system
>to
> > a crawl thus causing me to loose productivity. In addition the fast
>swapping
> > memory used in the card...."
> >
> >
> > Beancounter: ** fell asleep ** so you leaned over and signed the PO for
> > him....
> >
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 2:19 PM
> > To: CF-Community
> > Subject: RE: Doom III
> >
> >
> > LOL!
> > Oh yeah right! Is that what you told the beancounters?
> >
> > That you use a Radeon 9000 128MB card for development...
> > What are you doing 3D Art?
> >
> > It couldn't be lowly text based, 2D Coldfusion development!
> >
> > hee hee hee
> > ;-P
> >
> > -Gel
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shawn Regan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > The one I got has the RAIDEON 9000 128 MB
> > Yeah, I spent 3300. But I also use it for development.
> >
> > Shawn
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Angel Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Really?
> > What sort of graphics card and specs does it have?
> > I'd like an alienware too..but the specs I picked out drives the cost up
> > to about 3,000US .
> > :-|
> >
> > -Gel
> >
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