For games and video, look for a machine with a graphics accelerator.
Knobs and switches on its World Core synthesizer module adjust the game machine's maps, graphics, characters and even physics through voltage tweaks.
But if you're a 3D-game fan, this machine's Diamond Viper V7770 graphics card will probably be the major draw: It delivered smooth motion and solid performance in our tests using Redline Racer and Incoming.
Parallels and Fusion support advanced 3D graphics in a Windows virtual machine, whereas VirtualBox does not.
Our model also came with a 52X CD-ROM drive, a 19-inch monitor, and the same outstanding Diamond graphics card as the Dell machine.
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We swung by the company's trailer to get some hands-on with the T430u -- the first such machine that we've seen packing discrete graphics from NVIDIA. At only 21mm thick and under four pounds, the first ThinkPad Ultrabook is certainly svelte and falls on the more portable end of the spectrum for 14-inch PCs.
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It was a nice machine, though, very expensive and great on graphics.
Equipped with a mobile processor that combines a chipset, a processor, and graphics smarts, Hoff demonstrated lush visuals on a machine that will have a cut-rate price.
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This Windows Media Center 2005-powered machine delivers that crystal clear HD video via the ATI X1600 graphics card, and AMEX even throws in a "multi-function" remote to control the action from your oh-so-comfy loveseat.
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Similarly, if your work requires graphics-intensive tasks or video editing, this is not the machine for you either.
Andrew Spencer of the Retro Computer Museum was demonstrating a Commodore VIC-20 which produced sounds and graphics illustrating what could be done with even a "quite limited" machine.
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She owns a San Francisco sign and graphics company with her husband, but says she has trouble interfacing the industrial sewing machine or her vinyl silhouette cutter with her PC.
Beyond the sheer horsepower of the machine, the feature that may do the most for realism is the PlayStation 2's special graphics chips.
The PlayStation was technologically impressive, with its ability to splash over 300, 000 polygons on a television screen in a single second. (Nearly all videogame graphics are composed of polygons so "polygons per second" is a rough and ready measure of a machine's power.) Perhaps more important, Sony carefully forged and nurtured good relationships with third-party software developers, ensuring a steady supply of great games for its system.
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