I’ve seen enough grief online about wide gamut monitors and over/under-saturated reds. Well, here is what works for me in Win7.

1. DON’T use the color profile Dell included on the disk. Yes very counter-intuitive I know. Set the monitor to Adobe RGB.
2. Control Panel> Color Management > Add in Adobe RGB 1998 in the bottom pane of the first tab.
3. In the third tab, Device Profile > Adobe RGB 1998, and Viewing condition rules> WCS profile for ICC viewing conditions.
4. Go here, install, and then setup the plugin to use Adobe RGB. Opera is still my main browser
5. Setup your other color management capable programs to use the AdobeRGB and now most things should appear properly.

What happens when you use the Dell supplied monitor profile is that ARGB tagged pictures looks horrendously unsaturated in color managed programs. Setting it this way should let everything, including untagged and SRGB, to display correctly. I had it set up awhile ago, but didn’t feel like writing anything until someone prodded me for how to set it up correctly

List format update, because I like lists (and said so many times before):

I’ll make a new page on my ACL reconstruction later. I’ve documented my road to recovery.

Update:
I left the Sony playing trance all night loudly to break it in. Of course this is very subjective and people will say this is bullshit, but there is seem to be a change in the sound for the better. Ya it still doesn’t knock my socks off but it is there. The depth seem to increased compared to when it is out of the box. It sounds less muffled. The bass is still a bit overpowering, but the mid range and highs comes through a little better now. Theorhetically, break-in is supposed to loosen up the diaphram, so don’t ask me why highs comes through better. I double checked my ears on 2 other fullsize big dollar cans to make sure my ears didn’t go bad overnight. The break-in doesn’t make the Sony a good sounding a pair of phones, but it has made it more tolerable. This reminds me to pick up the Beyerdynamics DT880. I wanted it for a year… Just when I stop thinking about it… I could pick up something for my portable when I go get this No I don’t think there is too much of a difference in quality after you go over 200 bucks on headphones. It is mostly taste on what you like your phones to sound like. I do LOVE the DT880’s sound though.

First off, come on it has been 2 weeks since the card been on the shelf and where is the official driver? Oh there are BETA and HOTFIX drivers Then how about drivers that takes up 60megs of memory? Ok CCC disabled and got my memory back. Oh, now I don’t have access to settings and monitoring. This is the most annoying part: everytime I close a fullscreen 3d game or go from fullscreen to windowed, it blinks the display like it is changing the resolution. Seriously annoying. nVidia doesn’t do this. I mean resolution wasn’t changed, 1920×1200 to 1920×1200 and it takes a 1-2 seconds to do whatever it is doing. Um… ya Come on, that is seriously annoying. It is always the little thing that grinds on your nerve. Yes the card is fast and a good card for the money, you just have to put up with alot of shittiness, as compared to just a bunch of crappiness from nVidia. Meh. Color me underwhelmed from all the annoyances that comes with every ATi. Free with every purchase, y0! Man, I miss the old ATi control panel. Wish they would bring them back. Who gives 2 shits about live preview of the settings?

I guess I’ll give it a score: 79%. Almost, but not quite there. Buy it if you don’t mind the crappy drivers from ATi. It is just good for the money. A Dodge neon was good for the money; it just isn’t very good in grander view of things. GTX280 and 9800GX2 are still much faster. At least I know nVidia don’t have this annoying blinking problem and the driver are less bloated (still bloated of course). *GTX280 is quite mediocre too, perhaps even more so than the HD. I am an equal opportunity hater.

PS: The review is negatively biased on purpose. If you want to read the good things, just go flip through any other HD48xx review. I mean, people are giving too much credit to this card. Sure it may be an unbelievably good card compared to what ATi was churning out for the last few generations, but it doesn’t make it a grand slam. Someone need to balance out all the ATi dick sucking.

Quick summary:
Busy writing stuff
Busy coding stuff
Busy worrying about work stuff
Busy looking at car stuff. Daddy needs a new ride

I did have enough time to decide that macbook air isn’t for me. I may get an Asus U6Sg though. Magnesium chassis. MMMMM! I need to put away enough money to overhaul all my computers when Nehalem comes. That is why I didn’t want to waste the money on a MBA. It fits my needs almost perfectly, except for the non-changeable battery. Not a deal breaker but I could spend much less and get almost an equivalent computer. Just a little heavier, faster and less sessay (of course it won’t have those awesome Macbook keyboards).

Oh, GT200 is coming soon. I am wasting money on that.

Although the performance doesn’t matter that much, I do still somewhat care about it when I use it for other purposes. I do own more computers than most people. I mean, my NAS server is faster than most people’s desktop (C2D equipped ). I am still thinking about waiting for the updated version of the Mini-Note with Atom or Isaiah processor. Not only these will have a bit more oomph, they will be easier on the battery too. Though by the time those come out, I doubt I will need that much mobility. I am still tempted to buy the Mini-Note. Of course, I could just get a Macbook Air and call it a day

PS. How come people say the forward tilt from the extended battery for the 2133 is ergonomical? As an ex-Carpel Tunnel sufferer, I can’t agree It it puts the keyboard LESS ergonomically position. A negative tilt is eaiser on the wrist.

Oh, NVidia launched their 9800GTX on April first. The only joke was the product… Oh don’t get me wrong, I am still getting one. Though, it is still nothing more than an overclocked 8800GTS 512M