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BadVista, Bad . . .

Some of the more extreme Penguin People figure it’s time to get virulent against Vista, so they’ve set up a Vista hate site. Well, that might be a bit too strong, but it’s clear they’re going to post or link

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The Video Box? . . .

The Inquirer has an interesting article today which says that AMD/ATI might be considering the creation of what I call the video box In short, rather than attempt to stick a lot of hot video cards inside the PC case,

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Running Off The Track . . .

If you look at what was said at the AMD Analyst Day conference, well, the issue isn’t whether AMD is going to be running behind Intel the next couple years. The issue is whether they’re going to be running at

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Am I The Only One?

I just read a press release/article on the new Tagan 1100 watt PSU, found HERE. A couple of things suddenly began to sink in for me. Well, I should say it’s more like the “Sink” (as in heavy kitchen sink)

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No Mo Windows? . . .

The Inquirer reports that Gartner believes that the days of “Windows” are numbered. Did they mean Linux would take over? Nooooo. Did they mean MS would somehow slip out of the OS business? Nooooo. The key phrase is, “The era

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PlayLinc – Problem Product?

What could be better than the idea of Xfire? A messaging service that keeps track of your game usage, allows you to type to other gamers without the need of the 2-fingered alt-tab salute. It also automatically downloads patches for

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A Great Week! . . .

AMD hasn’t had a good week or so. One, they released 2X2 cores that lost practically every meaningful test to Intel’s Kentsfield with almost twice the power consumption. Everyone was so impressed that AMD cut the price before charging it.

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MIA . . .

Got this email the other day: Where the hell are all the reviews of AMD’s new 65 nM chips announced today? Why aren’t the FANBOYZ in a frenzy? Why is no one mentioning that there are no reviews? Yesterday, I