ironwalker
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Re: Computers and the 'experienced' user
Cool topic...thanks.
I hate the fact that video cards are getting to be the size of briefcases and taking two slots on a motherboard.
I hate that motherboards wont go up to a new standard in size...like big enough to handle more slots and those briefcase videocards.
I hate that the case makers wont go bigger for the motherboard maker to go bigger, so they can fit those briefcase size videocards in there with room to spare of course.
I know small seems to be in these days, but, I can care less about size if the pc is my home pc/server. Not that I want a central air conditioning unit as a home pc.
Even with todays technology getting better at packing everything one would need into a motherboard today, I still feel more comfortable with seperate cards in various slots though I cannot do this today as easily as I mentioned above 3 times.
I also/ultimatly hate that todays corporations went the route of less is more of an update/upgrade. Give an inch every year around christmas, over charge the hell out of it, slowly make it come down in price by next christmas, until the next upgrade, which only has miniscule of upgrades, repeat.
I don't like the whole pc hardware industry being dictated by gamers..........I dont game anymore. Its not fare for the consumer to be sucked into the latest and greatest hardware, paying full overblown prices to be lowered later for the latest and greatest pc game releaseing when the latest and greatest hardware was released yet the hardware cannot keep up with or play the game.
I am getting frustrated writing this but I am sure some are as they try and figure out what the heck I mean. 
For bigger screens and such being the big thing now, I myself still use a 19in lcd. I will only go bigger if I watch dvd movies on my pc, which I don't. For my wife, 2 19in lcd is fine for the varied windows she has open at once for work.
Now why can't the tv's get such high resolution like pc monitors?
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| Graphic cards are the new arms race because it generates money as gamers seem willing to spend the bucks on funky graphic technology and your right it does seem to border on insanity given the limited time any card spends on the top of the heap before being tossed into the yesterday's news bucket. Sometimes I find it rather funny that people pay massive amounts for graphic power they never even scratch.
I only game on consoles really so my desktops and laptops are CPU/Memory focused and perhaps a tuner card for recording TV, but the main purpose is coding, so often I just use the built in graphics capability of the motherboard. As I mentioned graphic usability of the monitor is becoming a top ranked priority and looking at stuff like WPF and such is definitely an interest while coding. I've always tried to accommodate scaling of my screens but it can be a lot of work and sometimes very difficult to test, so sometimes the results are less then I'd hoped for.
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