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Saturday Afternoon
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(link) Saturday, 2-December-2006 17:24:19 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Vista has arrived! For corporations, anyway (and it didn't take long for the free copies to sell out.) Despite have 9 ways to turn it off, it seems many companies will be slow to adopt. USAToday interviewed Bill Gates about Vista and Zune recently.
TheInq meanwhile have compared ATI and NVIDIA under Vista. This time we wanted to give roughly equal Nvidia and ATI cards a try on Vista. We changed our test machine to an Intel Core 2 duo 6700, the only dual core we have in lab. EVGA was kind enough to give us the Nforce 680i motherboard and we decided to use the Radeon X1950 XTX and the fastest single-core Nvidia 7900 GTX card.
Following on, Bit-Tech tell us all about DirectX 10, which arrives with Vista. DirectX 10 is a major inflection point for Windows graphics, so Microsoft wanted to make sure that it laid solid foundations – this is where Microsoft’s new driver model comes into play. Although it’s not directly part of DirectX 10, it’s a backgrounder that’s worth covering. Microsoft claims that the Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) offers “unprecedented stability and performance”.
Spectacularly bad marketing decision of the week goes to Benq's Musiq site, which seems to be using pictures of the smoking World Trade Centre rubble to sell a music player. WTF? Unsurprisingly, Americans are not amused. Interesting comments on Digg too.
AMD have received a federal subpoena regarding possible antitrust violations. A.M.D. said that the Justice Department had not made any specific accusations against it or ATI, and that it intended to cooperate with the investigation.
Korea will ban online game currency trading soon. Almost US$900m worth of virtual cash is being traded every year by gamers in the country, according to official estimates.
TechReport have their thoughts on AMD's Quad FX platform. What's left is a new enthusiast-oriented PC platform that officially sanctions what some of us have been doing since the days of the Celeron 300A: running multiple processors in an enthusiast-class system.
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