Month: July 2001

There’s a bunch of reviews on Tualatins, but they can be summarized in two sentences: Tualatin is pretty good at mainstream applications. It’s not so good for gaming or rendering or other applications where memory bandwidth is important. We’ll talk

Before you go looking at Tualatin benchmarking (or for that matter, any new ones), there’s something you should know: The SiSoft Sandra memory benchmark is being modified (it’s still in beta, but some benchmarking places are using it). You can

I’ve tried to avoid using wrestling terminology in comparison for a few reasons. One big difference between a wrestling match and a product comparison is that the first is fixed, and you would hope the second isn’t. But here, the

Just wondering if others run into this, too. I end up upgrading equipment fairly frequently, so I end up taking lots of little jumps. What I’ve found doing this is that perception of speed turns into a one-way street. I

I spoke a little less than two weeks ago about my travails finding out whether and when I could get cable modem service. Some of you strongly suggested I go to an office and find out what was really going

First thing I have to do is move Christmas. Santa can’t deliver what I want by December, besides, you always get better deals off-season. 🙂 So let’s move Christmas to sometime next summer. That’s enough rest for Santa. What do