Digital Ruckus » computer http://digitalruck.us Making waves on the internet... Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:30:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Classic Gaming on New Hardware http://digitalruck.us/2010/02/06/classic-gaming-on-new-hardware/ http://digitalruck.us/2010/02/06/classic-gaming-on-new-hardware/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:39:01 +0000 jtalaiver http://digitalruck.us/?p=939 I fell further in love with my little netbook when on a whim I broke out Quake II and Driver. The joy of long late nights playing Q2 with my boys over a LAN game suddenly rushed over me. It was epic. Amazing to see that such a small machine just cranked out the video and 3d rendering that Q2 required. Such a perfect example of Moore’s law in effect. The machine I used to play Q2 on needed its own video card and lots of RAM and a great screen. Now all the same requirements can be met by a device that is a little bit bigger than a hardbound book. The same could be said for Driver. I used to have lag and get frustrated cause my computer couldn’t keep up with my speed. Now this little netbook puts me to shame because I am having to keep up. As they continue to cram more and more processing power on such tiny chips I am awaiting the day when I can rock Crysis at full res on a netbook. It’s not too far away.

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Applications:

VLC Media Player

SMC Fan Control

iStat Menu

Dropbox

Firefox

Adobe Air

Twhirl

    Tweetdeck

    AMP

    ::UPDATE::

    Launchy

    Teracopy

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