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    New PC revolution

    The PC needs to have a revolution as the current state of play is faintly ridiculous. What am I talking about? Upgradability that's what. I work with fixed hardware platforms i.e. game consoles and the amount of power that is lost in software hardware abstraction layers in order...
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    Using Sandy Bridge IGP as GPGPU co-processor for say physics with a discrete GPU

    Yeah I'm wondering what and when those future developments will be - one glimmer of hope is given by this link: http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=9593 It sounds like Lucid has a software based solution enabling both GPU's at the same time which to me sounds as if motherboard...
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    Using Sandy Bridge IGP as GPGPU co-processor for say physics with a discrete GPU

    So for me as well, I suspect, as the vast majority of gamers the Sandy Bridge integrated graphics processor would be best served as a co-processor to take heavy computational work away from the general purpose cores such as physics, image processing etc a la IBM's Cell chip. Intel will be...
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    Dumb terminal laptop

    I was under the impression the port on the back of a standard laptop was purely an output. Also I would have to switch on the laptop which would boot the operating system and how would I be able to use the keyboard and touchpad to control the desktop pc?
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    Dumb terminal laptop

    Hi does anybody know if there is a laptop type device that can be used as a dumb terminal to a desktop PC? Basically I want to be able to sit on my sofa and use my PC without doing something like remote desktop ie a portable screen and keyboard that I can play games on that has all the...