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How Hot Is This Fox?

The Firefox browser is due to go final 1.0 on November 9. You can find some hubbub about that here and here. It just so happens that I’ve been using Firefox the last few months, mostly to see if it

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Being Priced Out of the Market

I was looking at the reviews of the FX-55/Athlon 64 4000+, and the following thought occurred to me: “Hmmm, if I did what these people wanted, I’d pay $700 or $800 for the CPU. Then, if I wanted SLI, I’d

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Another Fatal1ty

Abit is supposed to launch a line of boards called the “Fatal1ty” series after some U.S. self-proclaimed world champion gamer. To launch the product line, hey organized a “Great Wall Shootout” in which Fatal1ty proceded to get himself killed by

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No Problem?

In the aftermath of Intel’s decision to not put out a 4.0GHz, I’ve repeatedly seen the comment “Unlike Intel, AMD seems to be doing fine with 90nm transition.” Excuse me? Do we share the same reality? The Facts Prescott was

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Fiddling While Hollywood Burns?

The DVD+RW Alliance people plan to demonstrate an 8X DL recorder very shortly, and expect to have them out for sale within the next six months. To many out there reading this, that means perfect unencrypted copies of movies in

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No 4.0 From Intel

Big Deal? Intel announced that it was cancelling its 4.0GHz Prescott. It said it was doing so because it was now more interested in doing other things with CPU. Ha. Ha. Ha. An honest explanation would have been, “We’re going