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Tuesday Afternoon
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Tuesday, 25-July-2006 15:15:42 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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FlingingSquirrels have a ranty editorial about real-world benchmarking in reviews. When testing a specific hardware component, whether it’s a graphics card, CPU, or any other component, as a reviewer you want to try to isolate the performance of that component as much as possible.
TomsHardware consider the graphics state of the union at present. But I have to warn you not to let the hoopla of well-oiled public relations and marketing machines cloud your judgment. Yes, there are many advances taking place, but there are so many elements with varying schedules that make this whole situation somewhat unclear.
BBC report on magnetoresistive RAM or MRAM, which they think could one day replace flash memory and hard drives. Put simply, Mram stores data magnetically, in the same way a hard drive does. This makes it non-volatile. It is also very quick, and does not wear out over time. So it seems to have the advantages of both RAM and flash, with none of the disadvantages.
This site has a couple of videos of future display technologies putting images into thin air. This new technology requires no screens, monitors or other physical surfaces to be able to project and display its images.
Microsoft have confirmed the existence of their iPod competitor, the Zune. There's a thread about this gadget here in our Audio/Visual forum.
TomsHardware also have a graphics beginners' guide. If you're new to the graphics card scene, or you're coming back after a short vacation from the hardware world, it can be extremely daunting. So if you count yourself among the confused or newbies, then this guide is for you!
Anandtech covered NVIDIA's PureVideo HD, offering HD-DVD playback on the PC. It will still be some time before we see a notebook capable of playing an entire HD-DVD or BD movie at resolution on one charge.
Outy spotted this cool hydrogen-powered toy car. This month, it will begin sales of a tiny hydrogen fuel-cell car, complete with its own miniature solar-powered refueling station.
For a bigger toy, how about a giant ball you roll down hillsides in? Thanks PodgeSSS.
Bit-Tech have a PC in a football. Can you mod a PC into a regulation match football and a pair of soccer boots for our tradeshow stand, asked Foxconn?
TechSport are the latest to check out GeForce 7300GT's in SLI. Running two SLI capable 7300GTs one besides the other, performance can be almost doubled surpassing that of a single GeForce 7600GT.
Murray spotted some Vista improvements in the latest beta. Installation time, something an earlier Computerworld story criticized, has been cut by about 40 percent -- making it the best Windows installation experience ever. Overall performance of this build is noticeably faster, including boot times and general performance of opening and closing applications, windows and dialogs.
Edit: uh, if you're confused, I did accidently link the wrong video on here temporarily. It's over 500MB, so you probably don't want to bother downloading it anyway. :)
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