AnandTech has a good article on the AMD roadmap.
XbitLabs shows that the overclocked Sempron 3100+ beats the Pentium 4 3.4GHz in a lot of tests as well as the very best Athlon 64's ! "Thanks to its clock rate, which is higher than that of any Athlon 64, the (overclocked) Sempron 3100+ outperforms the Athlon 64 3400+ as well as both Pentium 4 with a frequency of 3.4GHz!"
Oct 12, 2004
Sep 9, 2004
Lots of game demos!
There are a lot of games on the market and what better way to decide which one to spend your hard earned money on than to play a demo?
http://www.demoindex.com/
Demoindex has a very well categorized bunch of game demos, along with screen shots, brief descriptions, lists of top ranked games, game movies and even games for your mobile phone (the link for which takes you to jeumobile.com).
The only crib I have with the whole demo thing is that the files are mostly in excess of 100MB, which makes it a tad difficult to download when your monthly data transfer quota is 400MB!
http://www.demoindex.com/
Demoindex has a very well categorized bunch of game demos, along with screen shots, brief descriptions, lists of top ranked games, game movies and even games for your mobile phone (the link for which takes you to jeumobile.com).
The only crib I have with the whole demo thing is that the files are mostly in excess of 100MB, which makes it a tad difficult to download when your monthly data transfer quota is 400MB!
Sep 8, 2004
Sep 7, 2004
Gmail
Some gmail invites are available. Strangely enough, it seems that now everyone has a gmail account and nobody is interested in my invites!
Sep 6, 2004
Alienware - 4GHz desktop
Alienware powers up a 4GHz desktop says news.com ...
"In addition to the 4GHz Pentium 4 and a liquid-cooling system, the most basic Area-51 ALX desktop comes with 1GB of RAM, a CD-burner, ATI Technology's Radeon X800 graphics card, a 74GB Western Digital Raptor 10,000 rpm hard drive and a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS High Definition sound card.
Pumping up the machine with 4GB of RAM, Nvidia's GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics card, twin 74GB Raptor hard drives and a DVD-burner increases the price to about $5,700."
"In addition to the 4GHz Pentium 4 and a liquid-cooling system, the most basic Area-51 ALX desktop comes with 1GB of RAM, a CD-burner, ATI Technology's Radeon X800 graphics card, a 74GB Western Digital Raptor 10,000 rpm hard drive and a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS High Definition sound card.
Pumping up the machine with 4GB of RAM, Nvidia's GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics card, twin 74GB Raptor hard drives and a DVD-burner increases the price to about $5,700."
'The Terminal'
Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | Paul Berczeller on the man who inspired Steven Spielberg's Terminal
Steven Spielberg's "The Terminal" is based on a true story..
Steven Spielberg's "The Terminal" is based on a true story..
Sep 3, 2004
Sep 1, 2004
Apple - iMac G5
The new Apple - iMac G5 is seriously cool!
Upto 20" widescreen LCD... drool.
1.8GHz G5... drool.
160GB SATA 7200 rpm drive... drool.
Too expensive for me... but maybe someday...
Upto 20" widescreen LCD... drool.
1.8GHz G5... drool.
160GB SATA 7200 rpm drive... drool.
Too expensive for me... but maybe someday...
Aug 30, 2004
Problems with XP SP2 and AMD ?
Geek News Central Revealing Links & Useful Technical Information
Great. This might explain why SP2RC2 SCREWED UP my laptop!
"In an article posted in the Knowledge Base section of its Web site, Microsoft says that Service Pack 2 may not work with computers running Advanced Micro Devices' 64-bit microprocessors. The Redmond, Washington-based company said earlier that owners of such PCs may want to bypass the update completely, but has now come up with a workaround. "
However, the ZDNET article goes on to say that AMD thinks only one application causes this problem with SP2 and I don't have it. In any case I guess I'll be delaying installing anything related to SP2 on either laptop or desktop. Everything's working fine enough...
Great. This might explain why SP2RC2 SCREWED UP my laptop!
"In an article posted in the Knowledge Base section of its Web site, Microsoft says that Service Pack 2 may not work with computers running Advanced Micro Devices' 64-bit microprocessors. The Redmond, Washington-based company said earlier that owners of such PCs may want to bypass the update completely, but has now come up with a workaround. "
However, the ZDNET article goes on to say that AMD thinks only one application causes this problem with SP2 and I don't have it. In any case I guess I'll be delaying installing anything related to SP2 on either laptop or desktop. Everything's working fine enough...
The Internet is 35
CNN.com - The Internet at 35: Still evolving - Aug 29, 2004
Says CNN: "Thirty-five years after computer scientists at UCLA linked two bulky computers using a 15-foot gray cable, testing a new way to exchange data over networks, what would ultimately become the Internet remains a work in progress."
It's been a long time ;)
Says CNN: "Thirty-five years after computer scientists at UCLA linked two bulky computers using a 15-foot gray cable, testing a new way to exchange data over networks, what would ultimately become the Internet remains a work in progress."
It's been a long time ;)
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