Anyone that’s into PC gaming knows that display and graphics are core to the gaming experience. Imagine if you could take your 24”-27” 1080p display and quadruple the surface area and pixel count. Now imagine playing your favorite DirectX 11 games on this display. This may sound like fantasy, but it’s not. 4K Ultra-HD TVs and monitors have 2 times the horizontal and vertical resolution...
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In this post I’ll discuss how you can optimize performance, cost, flexibility, and resiliency when building a Windows 8 storage solution. Windows 8 provides two new storage capabilities that enable optimized storage solutions based on these considerations: Storage Spaces and File History. I won’t get into the details of File History in this post, but you can read my complete write-up here. In...
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I’m the kind of person that demands a lot from my tools and equipment. This is certainly true of my Windows PCs, and a great example is my hard-working personal video editing PC. I built this video editing PC (known on my home network as “VIDEO2”) a couple of years ago, and it has served me well. But like any piece of hard-working machinery, this PC was due for a service. With my drives...
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I have been intrigued by the power and flexibility of using Windows PCs for digital cinema post-production. You can read about investigations I have done in my lab here, here, and here. So when an opportunity came up to attend the Sundance Film Festival with the co-founder of RED, I leaped at it! Empowering Emerging Artists The Sundance Film Festival is all about the celebration of motion...
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Hello everyone! If you’ve been reading the Extreme Windows Blog lately, you’ve seen me demonstrate some of latest and greatest HP Workstations, including the HP Z820 desktop, the HP Z1 All-In-One, and the HP 8770w laptop.I’m excited to announce that engineers from the HP Workstation team will be on Reddit on Monday January 28thto discuss this hardware, Windows 8 software, and the story...
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If you are a photographer, videographer, or blogger that works on the go you’ve probably had to “make do” with equipment that’s really not optimal for post-production. At a recent LAN party event, I can recall working on a 1080p multi-cam video edit in my hotel room on a laptop with sub-1080p display resolution, and without USB 3.0. I was able to complete my video edit, but thought to...
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