By George Ou on
11/17/2008 10:19 PM
AMD had much to celebration last week as they managed to beat Intel's Nehalem-EP to the mainstream two-socket server market with Shanghai. AMD took a lead in SPECjbb, SPECweb, SPECfp, and Virtualization Nested Paging for the server market and it looked like they might have had 2 months of breathing room to before Nehalem-EP arrives in the two-socket server market. But there was an unexpected party crasher today when a single Intel's Nehalem i7-965 3.2 GHz single-socket processor for the desktop market decided to take on two brand new AMD Shanghai processors in the server benchmarks and win.
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By George Ou on
11/15/2008 10:52 PM
Dell has just launched the Inspiron Mini 12 which is the slimmest and newest and slimmest Netbook on the market for $550, $600, and $650. What makes this Netbook hot is the 1.1 inch thickness, superior Poulsbo chipset with full HD decode which is superior to any other Atom-based Netbook, and the 12.1" 1280x800 LCD panel.
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By Justin James on
11/14/2008 9:11 AM
In the tube TV days, it was very easy to find entertainment centers with glass doors over the shelves, so you could keep children and pets away from the components, without blocking the remotes from working. I wonder why it seems so difficult to find a decent, stylish TV stand for a flat panel TV with glass over the shelves? And for those I find, so few lend themselves to having a child lock put on them! Now that I have a child of my own, I am consistently amazed at how few things in the technology world are designed with families in mind, despite the number of families on the planet.
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By George Ou on
11/13/2008 11:14 PM
One issue that I'm frequently asked about is AMD's alternative energy efficiency rating called Average CPU Power (ACP). AMD created this new standard on its own last year and despite its controversy, they've managed to get the media to accept this new definition of energy efficiency. AMD has told the press that AMD's ACP rating is equivalent to Intel's TDP rating and I know this because this is what AMD spokesperson John Taylor told me when I was Editor at Large at ZDNet. Here's an excerpt of what he emailed me on September 10th 2007:
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By George Ou on
11/13/2008 9:11 PM
AMD launched its 45nm Shanghai processors today for the server market ahead of Intel's Nehalem processor launch. AMD lists a series of benchmarks here but they omit many of the better results from Intel. To get the full official results, here are the benchmarks based on the best scores available from AMD and Intel as of November 13th 2008.
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By Justin James on
11/13/2008 10:12 PM
Buried in this piece regarding the return of the OLPC's "Give one, get one" campaign making a return this year, is an interesting statement:
The XO laptop involved is the same Quanta-built netbook powered by a 700 MHz AMD Geode CPU, and the price for two is still $199 (in the UK, it's £254.)
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By George Ou on
11/13/2008 1:19 AM
Andrew Storms - nCircle, George Ou, DHS secretaries, Secretary Michael Chertoff
Photo credits: Martin McKeay
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By George Ou on
11/12/2008 3:40 PM
I just came across some certified SAP server benchmarks for the soon to be launched AMD 45nm Shanghai processor in comparison to some Intel Tigerton 65nm processor and Intel Dunnington 45nm processor.
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By Justin James on
11/10/2008 1:04 PM
To put it plainly, someone completely forgot to document Exchange 2007. The OAB (Offline Address Book) issues that were present in previous editions are still there. The sad part is, the problem is documentation, not technical. Over the last month or so, I have been wrestling with OAB issues for at least 20 hours per week. About 30 minutes ago, I conquered them for good. Here is everything that I have learned along the way, hopefully it will spare you some trouble.
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By Justin James on
11/9/2008 11:44 AM
So Sam Diaz over at ZD Net takes Microsoft to task, because they have said that their online offerrings of Office will be "lightweight". And then he says (in a nutshell), "what's Microsoft's problem, Google has gotten this right already!" The reality is, Google Apps are "lightweight" too. As Steve Ballmer mentioned, they didn't even have footnotes (they got footnotes a few days after he mentioned it).
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By George Ou on
11/9/2008 1:56 AM
Performance benchmarks are the equivalent of the Indianapolis 500 for the computer industry, if not more important. The only fair way to conduct benchmarks is to have each player put forth their best player to achieve the highest scores possible within a common set of rules and parameters. By this measure, AMD's recent submission of SPECpower energy efficiency benchmarks on behalf of Intel which portray Intel servers in a sub-optimal light while ignoring superior scores for Intel is highly inappropriate.
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By Justin James on
11/3/2008 11:56 PM
A few nights ago, I read a review of a new game, “The World of Goo”. The description sounded interesting, kind of “Lemmings” meets “Pipe Dream”. Tonight I tried the demo. From my perspective, this is the best video game that I have played in years. It fits my needs perfectly:
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By Justin James on
11/3/2008 10:41 AM
I've been a Windows user since version 3.0. That's a pretty long time. Indeed, I even used Windows NT 3.1, which was a fairly rare product "in the wild". Over the years, I have watched the bug count drop dramatically. Not just the true "bugs", but the stuff that the programmers joke about and say, "that's not a 'bug', it's a 'feature'". Still, Vista still has a few of these quirks (and a few new ones), and they drive me nuts.
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By George Ou on
10/31/2008 9:08 PM
Intel and Asus are trying to get community feedback on what people want in a PC and one of the more popular ideas floated is a "Future proof PC". I've been trying to tell people for nearly two decades that there is no such thing as "future proof" in the computer industry and the sooner they strike that idea from their head the better off they are. This rule applies equally to the consumer and the IT industry.
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