September 9, 200718 yr http://www.buy.com/prod/acer-aspire-e38 ... 50637.html This is obviously a great price, but it almost seems too good to be true. I've heard that buy.com sometimes isn't reliable and that they sell used products, I've heard that Acer isn't a very good company, etc
September 9, 200718 yr About average price I'd say no monitor or independent graphics card and thats a large chuck of cash.
September 9, 200718 yr I agree with LP, it's about average. Normal the price would be higher but this computer does not include a monitor. Acer is a good company.
September 10, 200718 yr I have no idea how decent acer is. I do know that an eqivalent, say HP would cost more because it's HP. But it looks like a solid machine.
September 10, 200718 yr Author About average price I'd say no monitor or independent graphics card and thats a large chuck of cash.Wait, it doesn't come with a graphics card?
September 10, 200718 yr About average price I'd say no monitor or independent graphics card and thats a large chuck of cash.Wait, it doesn't come with a graphics card? Every computer technically comes with a graphics. It how the image on your monitor is displayed. What he means is that the computer has onboard graphics which are integrated into the motherboard. A "real" graphics card would be an add-on card which is faster and will allow you to play games in higher settings.
September 10, 200718 yr Author About average price I'd say no monitor or independent graphics card and thats a large chuck of cash.Wait, it doesn't come with a graphics card? Every computer technically comes with a graphics. It how the image on your monitor is displayed. What he means is that the computer has onboard graphics which are integrated into the motherboard. A "real" graphics card would be an add-on card which is faster and will allow you to play games in higher settings. Yea, its called integrated I thought :s people told me to avoid it. It doesn't say integrated there though
September 10, 200718 yr About average price I'd say no monitor or independent graphics card and thats a large chuck of cash.Wait, it doesn't come with a graphics card? Every computer technically comes with a graphics. It how the image on your monitor is displayed. What he means is that the computer has onboard graphics which are integrated into the motherboard. A "real" graphics card would be an add-on card which is faster and will allow you to play games in higher settings. Yea, its called integrated I thought :s people told me to avoid it. It doesn't say integrated there though For that price, it is. I wouldn't really say avoid it for normal computer use, like if your using the computer for office, and internet use. If your going to be playing games, then it should be avoided.
September 10, 200718 yr Author About average price I'd say no monitor or independent graphics card and thats a large chuck of cash.Wait, it doesn't come with a graphics card? Every computer technically comes with a graphics. It how the image on your monitor is displayed. What he means is that the computer has onboard graphics which are integrated into the motherboard. A "real" graphics card would be an add-on card which is faster and will allow you to play games in higher settings. Yea, its called integrated I thought :s people told me to avoid it. It doesn't say integrated there though For that price, it is. I wouldn't really say avoid it for normal computer use, like if your using the computer for office, and internet use. If your going to be playing games, then it should be avoided. As someone who has limited knowledge on computers, I have to argue. The video card is not integrated
September 10, 200718 yr About average price I'd say no monitor or independent graphics card and thats a large chuck of cash.Wait, it doesn't come with a graphics card? Every computer technically comes with a graphics. It how the image on your monitor is displayed. What he means is that the computer has onboard graphics which are integrated into the motherboard. A "real" graphics card would be an add-on card which is faster and will allow you to play games in higher settings. Yea, its called integrated I thought :s people told me to avoid it. It doesn't say integrated there though For that price, it is. I wouldn't really say avoid it for normal computer use, like if your using the computer for office, and internet use. If your going to be playing games, then it should be avoided. As someone who has limited knowledge on computers, I have to argue. The video card is not integrated No you're wrong, its integrated. Stop trying to argue when you have know knowledge of PC's.
September 10, 200718 yr About average price I'd say no monitor or independent graphics card and thats a large chuck of cash.Wait, it doesn't come with a graphics card? Every computer technically comes with a graphics. It how the image on your monitor is displayed. What he means is that the computer has onboard graphics which are integrated into the motherboard. A "real" graphics card would be an add-on card which is faster and will allow you to play games in higher settings. Yea, its called integrated I thought :s people told me to avoid it. It doesn't say integrated there though For that price, it is. I wouldn't really say avoid it for normal computer use, like if your using the computer for office, and internet use. If your going to be playing games, then it should be avoided. As someone who has limited knowledge on computers, I have to argue. The video card is not integrated No you're wrong, its integrated. Stop trying to argue when you have know knowledge of PC's. No the graphics card isn't intergrated i just checked. It does share ram with the pc,but it is an independent card. So there ya go. As for the pc its not bad value for money,not too great either.
September 10, 200718 yr It's integrated, -.- Meaning it's [cabbage] that comes with the computer Shared = very bad
September 10, 200718 yr The card itself could be independent (like as a pci-e card) but if it has to share ram then it sucks. A normal video card should be independent of the ram for video memory. For that price you shouldn't expect a gaming computer anyway.
September 11, 200718 yr It says: Graphics Controller ATi Radeon x1650se 512MB Semi-shared In reality, that probably means 256MB of card memory, and 256MB borrowed (hypermemory) from the system. Borrowing system memory has been done before (AGP textures / DME), so the only thing wrong with hypermemory is the misleading description. As I understand it, most current cards and drivers are capable of using system memory textures if needed. SE, though, is not a good pair of letters to find on a graphics card, "Special Edition" generally means "Slow Edition" - with lower clockspeeds, lowered memory bus width, slower RAM, reduced pipelines or any other form of crippling.
September 11, 200718 yr It says: Graphics Controller ATi Radeon x1650se 512MB Semi-shared In reality, that probably means 256MB of card memory, and 256MB borrowed (hypermemory) from the system. Borrowing system memory has been done before (AGP textures / DME), so the only thing wrong with hypermemory is the misleading description. As I understand it, most current cards and drivers are capable of using system memory textures if needed. SE, though, is not a good pair of letters to find on a graphics card, "Special Edition" generally means "Slow Edition" - with lower clockspeeds, lowered memory bus width, slower RAM, reduced pipelines or any other form of crippling. Generally only lower end cards share memory, because system memory is significantly slower then graphics memory. Otherwise, your post is correct. ATI and Nvidia have some strange naming schemes.....
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