Intel released some Penryn numbers. What do they mean? Well, most of what looks like standard app benchmarking actually is benchmarking with benchmarks souped up with SSE4 processing. Nice if you use the application and the out-in-the-wild app actually uses
(apologies to John 20) Then the same day in Tunisia, being the second day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the C2Ds, came Jesus Derrick and stood in the midst,
XBitLabs has a very interesting article on the video card market. What it shows is that most video in the PC industry is integrated video, and that the low- and medium-end video cards are slowly being squeezed out of existence.
This is an item easily overlooked, so here it is. The article says that the appropriate officiating bodies have approved the standards for 12X and 16X dual-layer DVD+R speeds, and 16X burners should become available around the end of the
SUMMARY: Web-based Freeware Alternatives to Microsoft Office – and Then Some. For those of us who might feel less than enthused with Micropolysoft’s bloatware, we spotlighted Open Office as a full-fledged alternative. Open Office resides on your PC – a
SUMMARY: Not Photoshop, but an excellent image management program with simple editing functions. Google has an excellent freeware program available to manage and do simple edits on your digital photos. This is not as robust as Photoshop, but for finding,
As we pointed out yesterday, AMD had a terrible first quarter. Why should anybody besides investors care? Under normal circumstances, the average person reading this isn’t obviously affected. It doesn’t matter to you if Intel makes one as opposed to
The AMD price cuts are official, you can see them here. AMD this morning indicated that its revenues for the first quarter will be, well, let them tell you: “AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced it expects to report revenue of
Take a look here. It’s an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ Brisbane (65nm) 1.9GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 OEM processor. For comparison’s sake, the cheapest Intel 65nm dual-core, a Pentium D 915, is going for about $87.
