47: Better Pixels
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2014
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
- Follow-up: IBM AS/400 (aka System i) and single-level store.
- Marco's Retina theory.
- PS4 and Xbone sales.
- Trying to care about CES.
- Who "needs" the Mac Pro? Justifying toys and improving quality of life with smart purchases.
- Panasonic’s new LCD TVs compared to great TVs of the past.
- 4K on Fox Sports, 4K's color space, and the chances of 4K catching on quickly.
- A Steam Box (its controller) as a replacement for a gaming PC.
- Three old men reminiscing about their teenage gaming years:
- Null-modem cables, modems, and special networking software.
- Modem initialization strings and SLIP.
- What killed LAN parties? Perhaps it was great 4-player N64 games.
- Three Moves Ahead Podcast.
- Voodoo 3D cards, their silly cables, and Sound Blasters.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's not as exciting as it sounds because you made me stop before I explain, but now I'll |
| 0:04.0 | explain and you'll see that it's not exciting. |
| 0:07.5 | So I've been looking at getting a different video card for my Mac to sort of tie me over |
| 0:11.8 | and looking into getting an SSD and doing all sorts of other things since it doesn't |
| 0:15.8 | look like I'm getting a Mac Pro anytime soon. |
| 0:18.1 | And a lot of people been emailing me with suggestions of things to get and one person emailed |
| 0:22.4 | me with an offer of an old video card they had out of their 2008 Mac Pro. |
| 0:27.1 | I don't remember who was through the feedback form, so I don't know if this person wants |
| 0:30.0 | me to give out his name so I won't. |
| 0:32.8 | But someone said, hey, I've got a radion 4870 sitting in my closet that I'm not using. |
| 0:37.8 | Do you want it? |
| 0:38.8 | And I said, sure. |
| 0:40.0 | And so they sent it along and they just arrived today. |
| 0:41.8 | I haven't installed it yet, but that was a very nice thing to do. |
| 0:44.8 | And it is, is that of being a seven year old video card? |
| 0:48.0 | It's like a six or five year old video card, but it's twice as fast as the one I have in |
| 0:52.7 | there now. |
| 0:54.3 | And it's an Apple supplied card, so it's not like a weird flash PC card or anything like |
| 0:59.2 | that. |
| 1:00.2 | So I think it should work. |
| 1:01.6 | And if it works, I just doubled my video card speed. |
| 1:04.9 | Wow. |
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