Month: February 2006

As reported elsewhere, AMD has a new secret, 100-series Opteron pricing. I guess they wanted to eliminate the “perceptual difficulty” of paying much more than the listed official price for certain products. Makes it a little easier to charge about

About a week ago, I wrote something about HDCP. The responses I got pretty much boiled down to “you’re wrong because this will never come to pass. We won’t allow it.” This attitude is pretty much summarized by this rant

People have had a choice when building their own machines when it came to putting Windows on the box. They’ve either bought the retail version of the program, or (much more likely) bought a much cheaper OEM version of it.

Detailed How-To – Peter Nelson

There’s been a number of articles on what AMD will come out with on June 6, much (not all) of which comes from these AMD slides. Contrary to my fears expressed the other day, product introduction will be over a

If you bought an expensive video card recently, Firing Squad has some bad news for you. Firing Squad has some bad news for you. It turns out that no video card on the market today will support HDCP when its