It has a fast multi-core processor, separate chips for graphics and sound, and a hard drive.
For graphics, you've got NVIDIA's 670MX, a laptop-grade GPU announced back in October.
As for graphics performance, the Vectra uses a Matrox G200 graphics chip with 8MB of memory integrated on the motherboard.
Technology has elevated the expectations of players for graphics and artificial intelligence, and made some strategy board game mechanics easier to implement.
The display graphics and instrumentation aren't quite as evolved as those in the new Audis, but who buys a 430-hp car for graphics?
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The chip, etched in 0.25-micron detail -- state-of-the-art for graphics processors -- fits 10 million transistors onto a space about the size of a fingernail.
One, called Vollee, streams videogames to high-speed phones, which makes for graphics and game play almost as rich as you'd see on a living-room console.
The UltraWide Monitor is also an outstanding device for graphics professionals.
As bandwidth becomes cheap and ubiquitous, people will want 3-d power as much online as they do now in desktop games, and the demand for graphics processors will grow.
Short for graphics interchange format, Gif has been around since the 80s but was this year's US champion because it gained traction as a verb, not just a noun.
Living Album's simple interface lets you browse for graphics on your hard drive and add short captions and descriptions for each one you select (your online album can contain up to 108 images).
"Quad-core processors offer much faster performance for graphics-intensive activities such as high-definition video playback and high-end gaming as well as enabling the phone to handle multitasking with less effect on the user experience, " said Daniel Gleeson, a research analyst for IHS Screen Digest.
The idea is to couple chips like the graphics processors responsible for snappy graphics in home computers and game consoles with central processors like the Intel chips powering your home computer.
If you're looking for gripping graphics and compelling page layout, this is not the site for you.
There's a VIA VN896 chipset for integrated graphics, WiFi and gigabit Ethernet, but it's only certified for Vista Basic, so don't plan on squeezing much Aero action out of this unit.
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Joel Myers, founder of what has become the world's best-known commercial weather service, AccuWeather, pioneered ready-for-air color weather graphics for TV stations and print-ready weather pages for newspapers.
However, besides dislike for the graphics, gamers also complained about game glitches and other problems.
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Henrik Nygren Design, the firm responsible for the graphics, received this Swedish advertising and graphic design award.
This subsystem works fine for business graphics, though you can't upgrade it later.
The feature set for the graphics trio is slightly more familiar to us, although there are a few tricks up Intel's sleeve.
But Amy spends extra for a graphics artist to design her logo.
Includes fixes for possible graphics distortion issues with certain ATI graphics cards.
Industry pundits used to seeing web pages displayed on crisp, high-resolution computer monitors slammed the service for fuzzy graphics and nearly unreadable text.
The 14-inch Y400 and 15-inch Y500 include an interchangeable HDD bay that users can swap out for dual graphics chips, extra storage space or an additional fan.
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Adobe's Flash software, the standard for rendering graphics and video online, is taking a p.r. beating by Apple, which refuses to use it in its phones and tablets.
While the rapid transition from voice to data in the mobile space represents a golden opportunity for the graphics industry, there are a number of hurdles to clear.
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Foreign chips flooding the U.S. market provided gobs of cheap memory for PC graphics boards and laser printers--and, boy, did those two technologies ever chew up the memory!
The MAINGEAR VYBE 15 also keeps to the MAINGEAR minimalist sleek design with a clean silver exterior, while offering a full 1080P HD LED-backlit matte finish display that offers reduced glare for crisp graphics and high definition media.
Pricing 150, 000 equity options in a second or assessing how much crude oil sits in a pocket 6 miles below the earth's surface are massively parallel mathematical computing problems for which graphics processors are peculiarly equipped.
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