VR-Zone has posted some plans on the upcoming VIA chipsets in 2002.
PC Stats has posted an USB 2.0 article
The USB standard that all of us are currently using to power our mice, MP3 players, scanners, printers and assorted other peripherals is technically USB1.1. When it was originally introduced it was a heck of a lot faster than anything else around. Now USB1.1 is dated and ready to be usurped by a newer, faster standard you may have heard rumblings about. That new standard is called USB 2.0.Read more
USB 2.0 operates at 480Mbps, about 40X times faster than USB 1.1 which currently works at a snails pace of just 12Mbps. For arguments sake, IEEE 1394 Firewire has transfer speeds of 400Mbps and has been around for a year or two now. Having had a taste of Firewire which has seen itself largely segmented to the digital video marketplace, USB2.0 is an exciting development. While there have been many devices launched under FireWire that enabled computers to have hard drives, CD-burners and similar devices located externally, the mainstream PC market never really seemed to embrace it - possibly due to the fact that it has become a standard on Mac computers.
The 107th issue of ZZZ online is out.
PC Stats has posted a new article Comdex 2001 - A Multimillion Dollar Write Off?
GideonTech.com has posted some pictures of the new water blocks from Tom Leufken.
Apple Computer has a message for Windows users considering an upgrade to XP: Come back to the Mac.
In the wake of a $1 billion Windows XP marketing campaign, all eyes would appear to be turned away from Mac OS X 10.1.1, the new operating system Apple significantly upgraded in September.
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In the wake of a $1 billion Windows XP marketing campaign, all eyes would appear to be turned away from Mac OS X 10.1.1, the new operating system Apple significantly upgraded in September.
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The 106th issue of ZZZ online is out.
Tweakers Asylum has posted their coverage of Comdex Fall 2001.
I am Not a Geek dot com has posted Sandra scores for Athlon with 183MHz bus
USBMan has put up their Comdex Fall 2001 coverage
I am Not a Geek dot com has posted WCPUID and Sandra Mem Scores of an Athlon XP running with a 182MHz bus.
The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based chipmaker is in the midst of a multi-pronged marketing strategy to convince consumers, as well as corporate buyers, that its Athlon XP and Duron chips provide better performance and cost less than rival Intel's Pentium 4 or Celeron processors. AMD is talking with computer labs and benchmark testers to come up with new performance metrics for comparing its chips. Kevin Knox, a Gartner analyst turned AMD executive, is also hosting roundtables with CIOs to discuss the benefits of AMD's chips in a business environment.
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Amdmb.com has posted their Comdex Fall 2001 coverage
My first meeting on Monday was with AMD at the convention center meeting rooms. While there wasn't a lot of AMD specific information that was new at the show, they did provide some glimpses at other company's motherboards as well as the Athlon XP 2000+ and an Athlon Thoroughbred core processor. I wasn't able to get a look at either of the processors (they were installed in machines and running demos) but the fact that there were samples running at all tells me they are relatively close. If I had to take a guess, I would expect the 2000+ processor to be here around January and the Thoroughbred just a few months later.Read more
Neowin reports that Beta testers have received notification that the Alpha Microsoft
.NET My Services SDK has begun
.NET My Services SDK has begun
ActiveWin has posted an interview with Nicole van Kaenel, Product Manager: Microsoft Office XP
Intel's Itanium processor is failing to pass Compaq Computer's stress tests, according to a Compaq representative, thus holding up the release of Compaq's Itanium servers.
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Microsoft on Wednesday added yet another way to recruit Windows users: A program to train students in high schools, vocational schools and two- and four-year colleges to work with the software maker's latest technology.
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