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Intel Larrabee – Is the Vapor Condensing?

Intel doesn’t like to be talked about in a disparaging way. After a long time of no delivery on a product, effectively making it vaporware, a new amount of work is going into the Larrabee project, and the actual product may be materializing.
This morning, which is odd enough, as not much news in the computer [...]

Windows Sales Up…Computer System Sales Down

The problems of the world continue no matter the hopes and best wishes of any business or corporate entity. That is the reason we have so many reports of the early sales of Windows 7 being up, by as much as 234%, according to some reports, yet other reports state that PC sales are down. [...]

Why Intel Is Kicking Itself Over Windows 7

After attending a Microsoft Windows Launch Event yesterday, along with a Developer’s Track, I can see how much change there is in Windows 7 that has largely been ignored by the press.
Though I still hate the lack of the hierarchical menu system, I can see that the changes to the taskbar are many, and again, [...]

S3 Lives! It Also Delivers A New GPU

For those wanting a bit more competition in the graphics market, there is hope. No, I’m not talking about the over-valued and under-delivered Intel Larrabee project from Intel. (that project seems to be in terminal delay mode)
The competition I speak of is from S3, the graphics company that has been on life support for years, [...]

Video Drivers Are All that Is Holding Linux Back (Maybe Windows 7, Too)

The title statement is one that became immediately clear with the unsuccessful installation of Windows 7 Release Candidate on a machine of mine that has perfectly serviceable video with Windows XP, Windows Vista, and many versions of Linux, but no support from either ATi/AMD (onboard graphics) or nVidia (PCI Express card) for Windows 7.
These same [...]

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