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AMD resorts to using MS Paint
Budget cuts going too far?
Trying to draw or write freehand in Microsoft Paint with a mouse is a bit like trying to play the piano with jumbo sausages tied to your fingers. No matter how steady you keep your hand, your work will always look a bit like a six-year-old child’s drawing of a dog. Still, that hasn’t stopped AMD from using Paint (or at least it certainly looks like Paint) to edit this highly professional-looking graph at AMD GAME!
Perhaps AMD is trying to prove that it’s more down-to-earth than Nvidia and is in touch with the kids, or maybe someone at AMD thought the graph’s figures needed clarifying and couldn’t find the Text tool. Whatever the reason, we’re now holding out for some classic 2D fill-tool action in the next Ruby demo.
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Looks too good for mouse drawing - someone did that on a tablet. Funny though. (and I just brought a 6000 too, havent even got the motherbord yet!)
Comment by Lucien at 10:01am 16th September 2007
whats happened to once was the two major players in the market?? i own a am2 amd x2 a64 6000+ and a ati his iceQ 256mb x1950xtx ive got mental visions of the pepsi guys taking the vending machines away cause theres no money left.....lol
Comment by ma11y1 at 6:46pm 14th September 2007
Looks like AMD has now changed the graph to something more professional on the site, which is a shame as I rather liked the crudely written numbers on the original! As for this not being news, illF8d, you're quite right, it's not remotely important - we just thought it was vaguely amusing and worth sharing. :)
Comment by hardwidge at 10:04am 13th September 2007
when I was 13 I did a neat Starfox-type polygonal drawing in paint using 16 colours and it looked good! You kids don't know how good you got it! I remember when we didn't have socks, we used to use our grandad's hat. There was fifteen of us sleeping in a corridor all huddled together in case the rest of the floor gave way! Oh we used to dream of corridors! There was 150 of us sleeping in a hole in the ground and every morning we'd have to get up and lick the road clean so we could live there! I got up at 4 o'clock in the morning, half-an-hour before I went to bed, I'd go t'work at mill, pay mill owner for the privilege of working there, come home at night, eat a lump of cold poison and before we went to bed every night, our father would kill us and dance on our graves!
Comment by EdArch at 1:14am 13th September 2007
I just visited the linked site and saw 3D graphs so not sure what this is about - it looks more excel-ish to be nerdy for a moment - anyway a graph is used to display information graphically. The bigger the bar the more wotsits in the packet or something like that. that's all that matters at the end of the day. It's not poor show. Personally I couldn't care less how crossfire cards perform anyway.
Comment by EdArch at 12:34am 13th September 2007
everything really has gone tits up at amd lol
Comment by MDK_UK at 11:30pm 12th September 2007
haha, still this is poor show to use paint to show figures! how did that end up there!? makes me ashamed to have AMD in me pc!
Comment by sotu1 at 6:02pm 12th September 2007
If this is news, then there really isn't much happening on the hardware scene atm.
Comment by illF8d at 12:50pm 12th September 2007
To be fair, all manufacturers are a little basic in their marketing. I bought a 7300 AGP card to get n old Socket A working again...for £16. The blurb still referred to it as "easily coping with modern demanding games and applications". I assume they meant Doom II.
Comment by F_A_F at 11:22am 12th September 2007
Sorry, Custom PC comments are now closed.
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