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Is Barcelona Better? . . .

AMD Says Barcelona Will Be 40% Faster One of the server execs at AMD recently made the following statement: “We expect across a wide variety of workloads for Barcelona to outperform Clovertown by 40 percent.” Note the careful and very

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AMD: Do Or Die . . .

AMD issued its financial results, and they weren’t too good. They showed a loss of about a half-billion dollars, but just about all of that was derived from buying ATI, so it’s probably best to set that aside and instead

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When, Not If . . .

Vista will officially show up in a week. What should you do? Well, there’s a lot of people running around (above and beyond the Penguin People) who are saying, “I will never, ever, ever, ever, EVER buy Vista.” The vast

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Good News, Bad News . . .

The good news is E4300s are now available in a number of places. The bad news is they cost about $190, which is somewhat more than its $163 benchmark price, and a lot more than the $113 they’ll cost sometime

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Save The Earth! . . .

Microsoft is going to offer its big guns (Vista/Office) via download shortly. That by itself is no big deal, no discounts for doing that. It will also allow people to buy these programs via download (sorry, no discount) or upgrade