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Post by Clone on Feb 8, 2012 16:49:01 GMT -5
Ive never even heard of the Huawei brand. must be a maker that dosn't deal in America.
the quality really is independent of the country. its all about the company's policy's and how they design their parts. (a lot of company's design parts in Japan, USA, Canada and Europe and then just have china supply the labor to build the parts) for example, Nvidia's design facility is in the United States but all of there parts are manufactured in china.
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on Feb 9, 2012 6:43:23 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HuaweiWhen everything is made in China, jobs stolen aside, but my biggest concern is always be the quality, moreover, long-lasting quality & resale. I had an old C5, but that is China made, in the end, no resale value AT ALL even if it still works! Labor is all cheap, that's why big companies took advantage of that, but the sad thing is their own local country loses jobs, even Nokia's own Finland factories are shutting down, now that is humiliating, isn't it? As for the graphic companies, they better rethink twice again as usual. Cutting cost won't help much when you compare with parts coming from China, in the long run, the lifetime of a product will deteriorate a lot quicker when you compare to being made at home or at least not in China. And again, that's why I never trust Chinese products.
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Post by Clone on Feb 9, 2012 23:36:51 GMT -5
yeah, really do hate it how the drive for the lowest price has driven company's out of their native country's to china. the discrepancy in cost for labor is a killer to everything. if your not employing people with enough pay to buy your product, then whose left to purchase it if everyone's doing the same? (seems like were having a regression to the early days of the industrial revolution when it comes to company policy's on pay and employment) at 7.56$ per hour minimum wage in America, a company can employ 50 people in china for the same cost. while this maximizes short term returns it ultimately undermines the business in which then less people can afford to purchase their products in the first place. (i do miss the indestructible quality of old American mad product, still got TV's and radio working that were built in the 50's while the TV i purchase 7 years ago with a Samsung logo (made in china) is now dead)
the livable wage is a vary important factor. with out it the worlds economy simply can not function. all media industry's (fluff industry's) would fail simply because people wouldn't be able to purchase anything as what little they make would be going to sustaining life alone.
i would love to say i don't purchase chines products, out of principle, however the computing industry is so completely dominated by chines industry that there's no hope of doing so. (but i will for everything else that i can)
edit.... would like to not that i was wrong on the build location of most Nvidia based GPUs. its Tiwan is the correct name for it. i was having relapses to last years Chine's history class.
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on Feb 10, 2012 10:21:45 GMT -5
Same case like the Donald did with his hotels, he wanted to buy many window glasses, but he have no choice but to buy them from China, the reason is buying locally is expensive, but what is more important to him is because of the bulk purchases. Same case he bought TVs, but not in America, but have to do the bulk purchasing through LG, where is it? The answer is easy which he doesn't like, Korea.
And overall, it's obvious like he told us, China's currency manipulation causes western companies unable to compete fairly, in the end, factories getting shut down, jobs getting moved to Asia, etc.. If only we have one Earth currency, then all bets are off and we can rest easy.
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Post by Clone on Feb 26, 2012 12:58:49 GMT -5
is it just me or are we in another lul in the tech industry? hasnt been much one the news side of things form what i've been following.
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on Mar 1, 2012 10:20:54 GMT -5
You haven't been keeping in touch with the news very lately including back in the smartphone thread.
Anyway, good news to tell. Tegra 3 did show us their 4+1 core system, it did came into smartphones. But to me, it's ridiculous, sure, it works on the phone, but all that high end power is already way overpowered, particularly they're only good for games, nothing else. HD movies? Yeah right, watch it on your desktop or laptop screens, or at least on your big screen LCD TVs. Not to say I hate quad core systems, they work on tablets, but on smartphones, just too overkill.
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Post by Clone on Mar 2, 2012 15:25:17 GMT -5
i honestly don't give a parc about smartphones and tablets. (at least not yet)
you've concluded the same as me, you only really need a single or at most duel cored processor on something like a tablet or phone.
wish something in the larger end of the tech industry could leek. i'm a little bored...
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on Mar 4, 2012 4:32:25 GMT -5
Right now it's also mostly evolved very fast. Galaxy W seems promising, but the problem is I hate the weak glass and the real concern is ICS upgrade, I don't want to fiddle and get involved with the Cyanogenmod 9 use, I don't want to end up rooting and then say goodbye to my warranty and support.
So I rather go full on with official ICS upgrades from the manufacturers. Hence my other alternative but more expensive Galaxy S Advance, yes, that device has LED flash & possibly Gorilla Glass, 1 Ghtz but dual core. Android 2.3 but eligible for ICS upgrade even though there's no word from Samsung just yet.
Graphic card wise, it's a Cortex A9, definitely a Snapdragon brand. That's ok, I no need Tegra 2 anyways, it's more performance but more money have to pay. Quad core phones are up to, but to me it's ridiculous, it's all for pure HD movies and extreme gaming. Then again, so is 720p HD resolution, it's just overkill when the laptop version is all it's needed.
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Post by Clone on Mar 20, 2012 18:59:06 GMT -5
Hay, the unreal engine 3 (Samaritan) demo was shown recently on some of Nvidias new hardware and it took it form a 3 way GTX480 set up to render it to a single Kepler card, also improved in fidelity with that too. blogs.nvidia.com/2012/03/epic-runs-samaritan-demo-on-a-single-kepler-gpu/i do be leave a single Kepler card will bake BF3 cry if this tech demo is any indication.
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on Mar 21, 2012 7:50:29 GMT -5
Try FXAA, now that is one powerful anti-aliasing.
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Post by Clone on Mar 21, 2012 18:57:21 GMT -5
i used to be against FXAA as it had numerous problems in its early implementations, but wow did the recent demo of it look good!cant wait for real benchmarks of the Kepler cards to come out. love it when theirs jumps like this in technology.
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on Mar 22, 2012 5:56:56 GMT -5
If you think that's great, try this video above. TXAA!!
But as usual another problem, sure I can go for that card, but a laptop equivalent is still going to be different and it's still going to be costly until have to wait for months for the price to go down first.
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Post by Clone on Mar 24, 2012 15:30:19 GMT -5
found an official review of the car, i'm damn surprised Nvidia is less power hungry than AMD this time around! www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2401953,00.asp the two cards are pretty much on par with each-other with some leads to both cards. also the ability to finally power 4 monitors off of a single graphics board is a much welcomed advancement. prior to this i was thinking about Ebay'ing for a GTX470 and SLI'ing my board however from the looks of it i would be better off saving that money to buy in to the 6xx generation. that power savings on the top end board should translate well to laptop cards. we could finally see a round of really good performance mobile GPU's that use very little power out of Nvidia.
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Post by Kokusho the Evening Star on Mar 25, 2012 8:08:12 GMT -5
I know, as far as I saw that, it's beautiful, but must have to wait for months in order for the price to go down to before mid-range. I heard the 7970 is powerful in certain areas while power consumption I'm not sure.
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Post by Clone on Mar 26, 2012 9:11:59 GMT -5
the 7970 and the GTX680 are what i would say on par with a few titles that swing both ways. im really impressed by booth company's offerings this round as ATI has really upped their game in DX11 titles (close to 4x tessellation performance over their previous generation) and Nvidia has really upped the antie in performance per watt.
i don't normally purchase the 3rd generation of DX cards but this 3rd generations a very compelling one. best part of all, i'm in the market for a new laptop this summer! (current ones starting to really fall behind the times, and break... it runs TF2 about as well as my Pentum4 desktop from 2001...)
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