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Sunday Afternoon
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Sunday, 5-December-2004 14:38:41 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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A few places are reporting that IBM may be selling its PC business, thanks MoJoMaN. The rumour is that Lenovo are looking at spending about $2.82B to buy the business. Who? Lenovo are apparently China's largest PC maker and the world's fastest-growing one. No doubt a name we'll be hearing more of.
IBM aren't standing still, however, disclosing they've tested a 4.6GHz Cell processor.
Anandtech report on their first impressions of dual-CPU database server benchmarking. Should you pay more for a Xeon that has a healthy amount of L3-cache, or will a less expensive Intel without L3-cache do just fine? Does 64-bit really matter? How important is memory latency/bandwidth? Is a hyperthreaded CPU better equipped when the database is accessed by many users simultaneously?
Alternate web-browser FireFox continues to impress, but IE remains strong. Personally I've been experimenting with newish v1.0 release, but haven't made a full switch away from IE yet.
TheReg report that Intel are ending the P2's product run. The P2 never really enjoyed the enthusiast support that the Celeron and P3 received, largely because of a lack of overclocking headroom. Still, they were multiplier unlocked for a fair while - I had a dual P2-400 machine that did 133x3.5 for 466MHz, a pretty handy box in its day.
Microsoft have filed seven lawsuits against porn spammers. "Spam is annoying, but this kind of spam is just outright offensive," says Aaron Kornblum, Microsoft's Internet safety enforcement attorney.
OmegaDrivers have some new Radeon drivers, based on the beta 4.12 release.
HardWareAnalysis cover graphics processors, heat and power. From that it is obvious that graphic processors are quickly becoming the largest contributor to power drain and heat production in a PC.
StorageReview looked at Seagate's Cheetah 10K.7 SCSI hard drive. With a more desktop-oriented focus, MikhailTech cover their 120GB SATA 7200.7 unit. I actually bought the 200GB version of that drive a few weeks ago - can't get over how cheap hard drives are nowadays.
THG continue their DIY Projector series, explaining how an old-school overhead projector and an easily-dismantled LCD monitor can make for some big-screen fun.
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