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Sunday Afternoon (10 Comments) (link)
 Sunday, 19-November-2006  20:10:09 (GMT +10) - by Rational

OsWeekly has expressed its concerns about Vistas resource usage. To be honest, I believe that the video card requirements will prove to be the biggest single challenge for Vista adoption this late in the game. Unlike XP, where you could slide by with very little computer resources, Vista is not going to be so forgiving.

With new optical disk formats, Ecoustics has an article talking about the future of both formats and the better of both. The one wild card is a high-definition DVD player or discs that feature both formats. According to Bajarin, such a player would ease consumer fears and spur some demand. However, Bajarin notes that a multi-format player is "by no means the optimal way to approach this problem. The ideal solution is for the two groups to come together, like they did with the CD formats, and create a single player/recording format or platform that meets the needs of all consumers."

Apparently Nvidia will not be releasing Windows Vista drivers for the Nforce 2 chipset. The Nforce 2 chipset is probably one of the most popular Athlon XP based chipsets and this will lock a lot of users out of full support.

This is probably the coolest urinal I have ever seen. The urinals are designed exclusively for men, and more specifically, for male drinkers. The $75,000 system has been installed across the Netherlands, and have spread to London and Belfast, but Victoria will be the first North American city to try them out.

According to The Inquirer the current design of GPUs is set to die out in favour of a design that relies on multiple smaller chips. This would have massive advantages on design time, you need to make a chip of quarter the size or less, and just place many of them on the PCB. If you want a low-end board, use one, mid-range use four, pimped out edition, 16.

AMD Hong Kong has announced 65nm AMD CPUs. The long waited AMD 65nm processors have come eventually. Channel of AMD in HK announced the availability of AMD 65nm processors including Athlon 64 X2 4000+, 4400+, 4800+ and 5000+on 5 Dec. This would help recover from muddle of out of stock since Dell’s order drew most of the supply.



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