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The Big HD Monitor Scam
- byTheLostSwede on4th November, 2008 inOpinions
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So, a few years ago something happened, everything went widescreen, first it was TV’s and then monitors, although admittedly Europe was way ahead here with widescreen CRT SD televisions with very little widescreen content. With LCD and to some extent plasma displays replacing the “outdated” picture tube, the 4:3 format slowly died away. With regards to computer monitors it took a little bit longer for widescreen to replace the square displays, but these days there aren’t many square models left in the market. Why? Well, that’s a good question.
Now watching movies that are shot for the large screens in a cinema is great on a widescreen display, the same goes for using a widescreen computer display in most cases. Personally I use a 16:10 display and I love it, although I’m still craving a higher resolution display, mostly for work, as it would make it easier for me to work with two web pages next to each other. But what really happened? How come widescreen became the norm so quickly? Well, it’s an interesting story and it’s getting better and better.
Initially there wasn’t a huge demand for widescreen displays, but many people saw the benefit of the higher resolution ones. But if you’re a pixel counter, you’ll quickly realise that if you have a 1,280x1,024 display today, you’ll actually get less if you go to a 1,440x900 panel, i.e. the resolution of most 19in panels in the market today. Sure, 20 and 22in displays have dropped like crazy in price...
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The State of Intel and Enthusiast Users
- byTheLostSwede on19th October, 2008 inOpinions
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Tomorrow, Monday the 20th of October, IDF Taipei kicks off and we’ll most likely be given some more details about the soon to be launched Core i7/X58 platform from Intel, but is it really going to live up to the hype? Yet again it seems like Intel has put all its eggs in one basked and have gone with a platform that doesn’t really seem to be targeting consumer users at all. You might think I’m crazy for stating this, but when you consider what the average consumer is willing to spend when it comes to buying a new PC; the Core i7/X58 platform doesn’t exactly have a wide ranging appeal.
Let’s put it into figures, first of all the cheapest Core i7, the 920 model, will cost US$284 in quantities of 1,000 units, the retails price will be higher than that and even more so outside of the US and in countries with high sales tax. The next step up is the Core i7 940 which is priced at $562 and then it’s the Extreme Edition 965 which is the standard $999. The Core i7 920 is the only model I can really see selling, but there’s an ill-fated rumour about this CPU not being available at launch and it will most likely not even see retail this year.
Then you have to factor in the cost of a motherboard and we’ve already seen prices of over $400/£235 for the entry level boards, with more expensive models expected to cost in...
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