I know you're trying to make a point, but when you describe jaggies as being blurred, you're kind of reinforcing the OP's point. Blurring jaggies is how to get rid of them (anti-aliasing).

They probably do use Windows to write reports and create presentations about their giant Linux clusters. They also use Linux because it IS cheap. How else could they afford to run those thousands of nodes when Windows charges by the processor?! That said, Linux gamers aren't cheap, at least when they're being…

I understand the benefits of OSS, but you're still being presumptuous with what is, in fact, a company's intellectual property. And when there are twenty phones, that's at least twenty driver revisions, not counting competing revisions for each phone. That's fine on a desktop/notebook when the consumer can just swap…

I agree, but the context in which he is discussing NVIDIA is with regard to mobile hardware, specifically the Tegra line and Android. AMD/ATi aren't making anything comparable right now.

"...so we can code our own drivers that would be more efficient than theirs..."

Tegra. Look it up.

1) It's "moot."

I know what they're doing, that's why I described the potential labor as nothing more than holes on a mobo sent to a soldering robot. For that matter, putting in 2x4GB or 2x8GB would require the same steps. Extra labor for the same steps? Wha?

1) You do know that embedded ram is soldered by machines, right? At most, you have some Chinese employee setting a chip down over some holes in a mobo and then sending the whole thing down the assembly line. That's less labor than putting conventional modules in by hand.

Um, no, they're not expensive. You can get a 2x8GB DDR3 for about $100 - merely half of that upgrade price. 2x4GB is about $45. Double the ram, double the price...except with Apple it's quadruple price, now or never. Did you even look at prices? DDR3's probably couldn't be much cheaper, these days. You say it isn't…

You can't make determination at face value. Example: I have a GPU that has a VGA, DVI, and HDMI port. I can't run dual displays with DVI/HDMI because they're merely different ports for the same graphics subset on the card (plugging something into one port, disables the other). However, I can run dual with VGA/DVI or…

You completely missed my point. They could add more VALUE for the consumer, regardless of engineering costs, by using faster components and keeping the same price. Conversely, they could charge less. Apple's profit margin is ridiculous. In the next 3 years, they're going to be paying out $45 billion in dividends from…

Apple sits on tens of billions of dollars and you think you're paying for engineering costs? You're just lining their pockets with more money. They could afford putting in higher-end components for the same price - they just don't.

Your numbers are off. You do not need to pay $900+ to beat console graphics. Consider that most games on console top out at 720p (that's 1280x720), have weak textures (none of the console have enough VRAM to handle better) and you'll understand how easy it is to beat them. And if you have a PC right now (who…

Diablo was the flagship game of Battle.net. It has always been focused on multiplayer. They've built the game to rely on servers for the loot drops - take out the online part, and you have no game. It's not just about DRM. It's not like Assassin's Creed, where you're basically online just to show Ubisoft that you're…

Complaining about technical difficulties in a beta? Never seen that before.

A gaming NIC doesn't need 10Gb ethernet because no game pushes that much data at once. It's about quality of service - prioritizing packets - and offloading certain workloads as you pointed out. 10G would also require new cabling and (expensive) hardware changes beyond the NIC, otherwise you'd just be bottlenecked at…

Every time you create a new character, you create an alternate reality for the game world. Nobody is straight, gay, or bisexual until you explore that facet of the character. What is the point of frustrating a player by disallowing a romantic connection? If devs can put the effort into that kind of choice for the…

If you can leave your giant display, external keyboard, mouse, etc., at home, why not your external graphics card as well? It also allows an upgrade to what is usually fused to the mobo. You want a gaming notebook for LANparties? Buy a more power-efficient notebook and just bring your enclosed desktop GPU with you. A…

I'm not hating on anybody. The OP drew a line between art communities that I somewhat agree with, so I'm commenting on why that may be the case. I think the film community has a lot more opportunities to make money, while the rest of the art communities are generally known for NOT making much money, on average. But if…