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Clearing up the 32/64-bit memory limit confusion

Clearing up the 32/64-bit memory limit confusionYou might want to re-read your article.... :PGood points though. Next upgrade i make will be to vista 64bit. I now have the hardware... just need the will.It also turns outthat 64-bit sees a speed boost on Intel chips because of the...

Tags: Network technology, Games, Processors, Operating systems, IBM PowerPC, 64-bit, PAE, memory limit confusion, hardware, operating system

Discussion threads 2008-12-04

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News to know: Layoffs at AT&T, Adobe, Real; AMD warns; $99 iPhone

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: AT&T cuts 12,000 jobs, will cut capital spending Jason D. O'Grady: Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo Sam Diaz: Next up for layoffs:...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Layoff, Larry Dignan, AT&T Corp., Health Care, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Clearing up the 32/64-bit memory limit confusion

Today Dwight Silverman ran a great piece on TechBlog which examines whether folks buying a new PC are best sticking with 32-bit Vista or making the leap to 64-bit Vista. It's a good piece but there's one bit that I feel deserves some clarification. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: 32-bit, Video Card, 64-bit, RAM, Dwight, Memory, Flash Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Ballmer to Wall Street: Temper your Windows Vista projections

Ballmer to Wall Street: Temper your Windows Vista projectionsWal-street to Balmer: "We saw your Windows advert on YouTube and think youare an ape on prozac."Of course, that was from 22 years ago but what has changed? :evilgrin:Chromium Turd...as one pundit put itXP SP1.75"You can fool all of the...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital rights management (DRM), Marketing research, Operating systems, Steve Ballmer, Tipping Point, Ballmers statement, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-02-15

My Mac Mini and me

My Mac Mini and me????????Combo DVD/CD ROM? You can't even burn a CD on this thing? Bogus. Typical Apple marketing and overhype. They'll have to do better than this to convince me to dish out $499. Apple may thing this is 'pocket change', but for alot of people, this would...

Tags: Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Processors, set-top box, Cringley, Apple Macintosh, Apple Intel Mac Mini, processor

Discussion threads 2005-01-24

Intel to drive home chip-numbering system in May

Intel to drive home chip-numbering system in MayGreat concept and a viable ideaThis is an excellent alternative and maybe [help] ease some of the confusion sometimes associated with Processors for the general public.Bogus marketing BullStuffing!Gee, do you think people are confused perhaps because Intel has called 60 some CPU's Pentium...

Tags: Processors, Sales strategy, Semiconductors, clock speed, Intel Pentium, Intel Corp., chip, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Pentium M, processor speed, marketing, processor

Discussion threads 2004-03-17

Microsoft to reshuffle Windows unit

Microsoft to reshuffle Windows unitVery strategic, should kill open sourceI believe this will spend the end of open source software solutions. With a tremendous leader such as Brian Valentine now heading the Windows Core division, I don't see how the OSS community can compete. I met BrianV once at a...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2003-12-15