CPU

While we all know that many times the things said are not the same as what is getting done in the back rooms of the corporate world, the leader of nVidia has always appeared to be a straight shooter,  though somewhat colorful in his speaking.
A story this morning from Maximum PC tends to dash the [...]

If you think that there are too many CPUs today, from both AMD and Intel, with features and performance too close to each other to make much difference, you are not alone.
Back in the old days, we used to have distinct grades of CPU lines, and they were clearly defined by speed and performance changes [...]

Power, that is. Without much fanfare, AMD has started delivering more efficient chips, with the AM3 socket configuration. The most conspicuous offering is the Phenom II 945 X4, which is spec’ed identically to the ‘other’ Phenom II  945 X4, except that this new model has a power usage of only 95 watts at full bore, [...]

Reported in Tech Connect is a completely new revision of the Phenom II processor, the TWKR edition, which gets housed in a black box, helping create questions and a mystique that will certainly make for a run on them, once released.
The Phenom II model is supposed to be extremely overclock friendly, which might seem superfluous, [...]

(There’s that interrobang again – it’s showing up more and more! I am again incredulous and amazed.) A story on Betanews, referring to another in The Wall Street Journal, speaks about the Microsoft assertion that Windows 7 will be possible as an operating system choice on all netbooks.
Well of course it will!
Anyone who knows about [...]

On the Consumerist, a story is told that should be a cautionary tale for all dealing with Best Buy. I think anyone above cretin level knows that they aren’t the best buy, but that sometimes a price is paid to have selection. However, when your experience is like the one described, it is the very [...]

Did anyone else catch the Leslie Stahl interview on 60 Minutes last night? Although everything was accurate, I would say that the intensity level was 11 on a scale of 10.
Anyone who might have never worked online before, but was considering it, will never do anything that silly again.
I wasn’t sure what it was that [...]

Running ahead of schedule ( and probably running a bit scared) AMD announced today that the 45nm processor family, known as Shanghai, is ready for release.
The processors, an entire line of them, from speeds of 2.3GHz to 2.7GHz, are said to use much less power than their 65nm counterparts, and be faster due to other [...]

It remains one of the biggest problems for many who use computers. It is supposed to be getting better, but statistics from full time usage shows it just is not so.
What is the problem? Hardware failure. In his post this morning, Robin Harris shows that hardware failures are no less than 10 years ago. Does [...]