I’m looking at ads for new computers and can’t decipher: textis, nits, and the term dot pitch.
(These aren’t coming up well in google. Depending how I ask, I get wrong answers or nothing.)
Hi Fanny May
I can help you with dot pitch and nits, but I’m not sure what textis is. Do you have a link to the ad we can look at?
Daizy -
Here’s the link to a scan of the actual catalog page from TigerDirect.com. The word textis has been circled.
Unfortunately, the descriptions at their website are less complete than the catalog.
I suspect it’s a typo.
I poked around nvidia’s site, and they use the word “texels” occasionally. A texel is a texture pixel, which if you are still confused think of it as basically a point on a texture map. Now you’re probably going to ask what a texture map is. A “texture” is just a bitmapped image, like a picture, that is mapped onto a polygon as part of a 3-D image.
A higher number of texels being processed per second equates to a more detailed video image.
Daizy - Thanks for your links.
engineer_comp_geek - I think you are right about the typo. I found a reference there to 1billion texels/sec, which is the same quantity-rate as the typo’s.
New question - CD-RW and CD±RW
What’s the difference? Is one better than the other?
One’s not necessarily better the other, but do stick to one that uses both + and -, if possible. That way, you’ll not mistakenly buy the wrong disks. 
I guess I didn’t follow that.
What I’d want the CD writer for is 2 things.
- to transfer information to other people’s machines
- to make music discs to play in my car
Does CD-RW do those?
Does CD±RW do those?
The latter seems more expensive.
There is only CD-R and CD-RW. The -R discs can only be written to once, the -RW can be written to, erased, and re-used. Odds are good that your car CD player won’t play -RW but will play -R. Here’s more info .
Shoot! I read too quickly. I thought you were talking about DVD burners.
Can you post a link to what you’re referring to?
If you’re looking to just burn data, music, etc to CD… most any cdrw will do.
If you’re asking about disks… a CDR can be written to once.
A CDRW can be written to over and over again.
Most people use CDR’s. They are quite a bit cheaper.
Perhaps this explains it more clearly?
Thanks!
You’re most welcome Fanny May
Did we help make it clearer? Or just muddy the waters for you?