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Why Thorton?

Here’s why we think Thorton exists: AMD has just one fab. AMD needs to convert some of it to Athlon64 production and/or 90nm production. So they pull some TBred capacity offline (Barton will be around longer), but there’s still some

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Heat In, Heat Out

We’re at the back end of the 130nm generation of processors. That means the processors are running about as fast as they’re going to get. It also means the equipment is running hotter than it ever did for this generation

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How To Get A Radeon 9800 For Less

Buying a video card at a somewhat reasonable price has been a problem lately. You either pay through the nose, or you pay good money for a semi-crippled card. Given that PCI-Express will start replacing AGP in about a year,

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When RIAA Sues, What Will You Do?

The RIAA is going to sue hundreds of the biggest file fencers, and the BS is hitting the fan. Here’s some talk about boycotting. A few points: 1) How do you boycott something you’re stealing? Yes, I realize that even

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Final Macwords

Where Does The G5 Really Stand? So far there’s been much screaming and little substance. Here’s my best estimate of the situation. Is The G5 Really Faster? We’ve explained twice, here and here why the Apple spec-tacle is a good

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Documenting the Dung

Even in today’s world, there’s some things you can always count on. The sun shows up every day. The earth revolves around the sun. And Apple comes up with some nonsense that whatever it just came out with is faster

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Out of Touch 1889

Why Apple Isn’t Taken Seriously In the PC world, when companies like AMD or Intel benchmark their products, they usually use standard benchmarks that are readily available to others. They describe configurations in enough detail so that, again, others can