[MPlayer-users] Re: recomended components for mplayer

[Attila Kinali]

On 02 Jan 2003 09:37:15 -0600
Shaun Green <greensh at sys.net> wrote:

> Unfortunately though, almost all new computers these days from Dell and Gateway esp,
> ship with the Geforce NVidia class video cards in them, meaning that when the average
> Joe buys a computer, he won't get the best performance with mplayer out-of-the-box.

Joe also does not use mplayer (at least he shouldnt w/o reading the documentation,
but then he isnt Joe avarage anymore)

> It's too bad NVidia won't release the code to their drivers :o(( They've managed to
> corner the game market however, like Microshaft has done. So they can just do
> whatever they want since they sell them hand over fist!

It's still your choice wether you buy a Dell with a crappy graphic card or not.
And even if you have to buy a Dell, you can always tell them that you'd like
another card.

			Attila Kinali

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