Sheriff_Bullock
Post Enthusiast

DISPLAY: The screen is the U410’s other weak link. (The keyboard being the other.) A resolution of 1366x768 is standard for ultrabooks and laptops at this price, so I can’t really fault Lenovo for not exceeding the standard. But, my Dell 6000 had a 1680x1050 display and that was six years old. Why hasn’t the industry pushed for better resolutions? Why are laptops lagging behind tablets? (Google’s new Nexus 10 is 2560x1600!) For whatever reason, you cannot find affordable ultrabooks with nice resolutions.

Read More

In the market for a mobile computing solution, I eschewed the tablet trend and went straight for the ultrabook. I needed a device that met both my productivity needs (i.e., a keyboard) but was also highly portable. For almost a day I was convinced I wanted that new Samsung chromebook, but ultimately I decided a browser-based O.S. was possibly too limiting. I really preferred a Windows 8 machine, and if it had the power to run Guild Wars 2 (my PC game of choice) without costing a lot, that would

Read More

http://www.youtube.com/v/OPW7R-xkELw

In this video I hoped to describe each of the ranger's skills individually, but combat flies by so fast that I couldn't touch on but a few of them. In this video you'll see some areas in Kessex Hills, the level 15-25 area adjacent to Queensdale. I'll make a brief stop at the Sylvari camp, Shadowheart Site, and visit the towns of Claypool (in Queensdale) and Divinity's Reach where you'll see how to access storage. Along the way there is some combat (including underwater), dynamic questing, and other

Read More

A brief look at Funcom's forthcoming MMORPG, The Secret World. I start as a Templar and poke around London a bit before taking an underground portal to the town of Kingsmouth, Maine. (I can confirm it is Maine--when recording the commentary, I wasn't certain.) While I didn't find The Secret World to be that exciting to play, I thought the environments were quite nifty and I liked that it was a game trying to be DIFFERENT. Except it was different in premise and aesthetics, notsomuch when it comes

Read More