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Testing with photo.

Update on Friday, January 29, 2010 at 6:14AM by Nathan

It works!  BTW, that anime is called Needless.  One of the best anime's of 2009!

Chaos Theory by Conspiracy - HD from Nathan Marolt on Vimeo.

Update on Monday, January 25, 2010 at 7:43AM by Nathan

After some testing, I have came up with this.  Tested videos on a P4@3.0GHz, E2140, P8700, and a Q6600.

Vimeo is best for slower computers.  Worked on all my test computers.  Only down side is no 1080p support.  Picture looks the best at 720p but upscaling it to 1080p starts to get a little blocky.

YouTube is best for HD at 1080p.  Only down site is it takes more CPU usage to play.  Even at 720p, some of my computers (p4 or the E2140) had problems running.  But with native 1080p support and on my 1080p screen, it looks great.

Thought I would take some time and post some of my ideas of what Apple is going to say on the 27th.

First the MacBook Pro.  The low and mid range models (13-15in) will get a speed bump with the C2D.  With the low end getting a 2.53GHz CPU while the mid range gets 2.8-3.2GHz.  But I think the 17in MacBook Pro will get a Core i5.  I don't think it will be at 2.66GHz, but more like 2.33GHz.  On the GPU side, I can see Apple moving onto a ATI 4650 on the 15in and a 4850 on the 17in unless they want to keep the 9400m with a Nvidia GPU for better battery life.

As for the tablet, its all still rumors.  I have no idea if Apple will make one, I don't see why not, a lot of people would buy them including me.  But if it runs the iPhone OS then I don't know.  I would like OS X running on it so I could install Windows 7 on it also.  I think it will come with built in 3G for AT&T and Verizon.  And you would be able to buy them at the those stores with a 2yr contract for about 200-300$ with full price at 800$.

I can see a iPhone OS update to 4.0.  I think the 4.0 update will come with a different home screen or a better one.  Hoping for a message like area on the lock screen that is more detailed.  Apple could show the new iPhone but I think that will wait till June.

I can also see a MacBook Air update also with a faster CPU and 4GB of RAM on the high end Air.

Thats all for now.

I was just doing a random speedtest on my iPhone and got this.

Not bad AT&T.

I was also posted on the front page of DSLReports! 
 http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Hints-Of-72-Mbps-ATT-3G-In-Kansas-City-106060

Well, in the past week, I have upgraded my Windows server!  I took out the 320GB drive and put in 2x500GB drives and put them in RAID 0.  I needed the extra space and speed.  Took me a few days but both CSS and TF2 servers are back up!

Tonight was also the first real snow storm of this Winter season.  I have created a set in Flickr so all my winter pictures will be in there.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nathan_marolt/sets/72157622966081692/