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(link) Thursday, 22-November-2007 02:10:25 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Sniper noticed that the Eee PC will be available in Australia soon, with ASUS having named Myer as their outlet here. According to Asus, the company is selling a Eee PC, which a customised version of the Xandros Linux distribution, every six seconds, which equates to about 100,000 a week.
W.G.A.F sent in this 4x 1000GB hard drive roundup on TomsHardware, focussing on the new Samsung drive. With the advent of Samsung's latest product family, the Spinpoint F1, the quartet of Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital is once again complete.
IGN interviewed Graham from Auran, an Australian game developer working on an FPS/MMO called Fury. As well as talking about the past, Graham looked to the future, mentioning a few new strategies currently being worked on that should boost enjoyment of the game, and maybe see us getting some servers a bit closer to home.
Bit-Tech have posted their thoughts about the Phenom launch. On the whole then, I think you should be able to gather that I’ve not been particularly impressed with the launch of Phenom thus far, but I think that there’s definitely still time for AMD to redeem itself in the enthusiast crowd as the chip, and more importantly the technology behind the chip, matures.
PenStarSys have their thoughts up as well, but they're a bit more light-hearted. So how does Meatloaf have anything to do with AMD? I’m not entirely sure yet, but I think I can connect the dots by the time I finish writing this article.
From IntelInside: In a recent meeting in Chile, Spain’s King Juan Carlos asked Venezuela president Chavzez to shut up (¿por qué no te callas?). The spat was caught by TV cameras and is something of a YouTube sensation. The King's outburst has become a ringtone hit across Spain, downloaded by an estimated 500,000 people and generating a reported 1.5m euros ($2m).
Another Asian country may be joining the space race (following recent efforts by China and Japan): South Korea has plans to launch a lunar orbiter by 2020, thanks Mindy. The country's science ministry has announced a space 'road map', pledging to develop a rocket capable of the lunar mission within the next decade, at a cost of more than $4 billion.
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