Month: December 2002

For the longest time, we’ve been in a bit of quandary. While hardware reviews have their role, they certainly don’t (and indeed can’t) do the whole job. The only real way to get a good idea of how good or

I’ve gotten/seen a few notes about the number of capacitors on the back of C1 stepping PIVs. Here’s one: I just went to one retail PC shop near my home and asked them to show me the P4’s they had.

I went looking for a Santa today. I wanted him to give me a C1 stepping chip. I went to three retail stores. I hate going to computer stores, because I know what I am likely to get before even

If you have a PIV C1 and if you haven’t been able to reach 3GHz with one, it may not be your CPU. Looking at the posts of those who haven’t, it seems to me at least that there’s a

In a few months, we’ll see Doom III. Many in the hardware world seem to think this will help to bring hardware sales out of the doldrums. On the other hand, what you’ve been telling me in surveys lately leads

Got this email, and wondered how many of you feel more-or-less the same way the writer does: I just read your piece on “What will It get me” on my new 20.1 in Dell UltraSharp digital LCD monitor. What struck