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Joe The Dragon writes:
Microsoft is rolling out a new Windows commercial today that takes the most direct swipe yet at rival Apple.
http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2009/03/26/new_microsoft_ad_swipes_at_apple.html
The commercial, which feels tuned for these tough economic times, follows a woman on a quest to find a laptop with "speed, comfortable keyboard and a 17-inch screen" for $1,000 or less. "Lauren" walks into an Apple store — she calls it "the Mac store" — and then walks out and tells the camera, "For $1,000 they only have one computer available and that's a 13-inch screen." She ends up buying an HP for about $700. Here's the spot, set to air during March Madness:
Also can you get laptop systems with real video cards at $600+ and good ones with 15" or bigger screens at $900 — $1500. High end gamer systems at $1600-$2000 unlike apple where all they have is 9600M GT with 256MB and 9600M GT with 512MB for about $500 more.
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Joe The Dragon writes:
Staples Tries To Charge Senior Citizen $390 For Basic Computer Repair
http://consumerist.com/362708/staples-tries-to-charge-senior-citizen-390-for-basic-computer-repair
"Reader Michael watched incredulously as a Staples tech tried to convince a senior citizen that his computer wouldn't work properly without repairs costing almost $400.The senior, who had been lulled into Staples for a free tune up that suddenly cost $39.99, didn't understand why he needed to spend money on a "diagnostic screening ($49.99), virus removal services ($150), and more RAM (~$150)." Michael intervened and offered to look at the computer free of charge. He couldn't believe what he found when he popped open the computer."
That is what you get when you hire salesmen over real techs and you cut the hours of the people who know what they are doing and don't try to push unnecessary stuff.
Any ways Staples prices are a big ripoff in the first place.
Just look at this discussion about there prices best buy has better prices then staples.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r17864165-What-a-joke
And that also leads to people looking at that you worked for places like Geek Squad and just push over you thinking that you where just ripping people off and your where not a real tech.
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Joe The Dragon writes:
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5622# cmt95037
Intel makes 8-core processing the new playground
"At CES 2007 today, Intel announced a proof-of-concept PC designed specifically to counter AMD's 4x4 platform for gamers. Dubbed the "V8" system, Intel demonstrated a system running on a pair of quad-core Kentsfield Xeon processors for a total of eight physical cores.
The system runs at 2.4GHz utilizing a 1066MHz system bus and is loaded with FB-DIMM memory. The graphics card is supported by a single NVIDIA 8800GTX. According to Intel, the "V8" system dished out a score of 6089 on 3DMark CPU bench.
DailyTech previously reported on AMD's 4x4 platform, which was later given an official name called Quad FX. AMD broke news of its dedication to the gaming community early in 2006 and received good praise from the general enthusiast community. Dual-processor systems have not been as popular as they were several years ago due to the advent of multi-core processors and the cost and complexity of the systems in general.
Unlike AMD's Quad FX platform, Intel's "V8" system will require FB-DIMMs while Quad FX will work with regular unbuffered memory. The AMD Quad FX platform can also support multiple GeForce video cards in SLI configuration, while the "V8" is currently limited to a single graphics card.
Despite the enourmous amount of processing power packed into Intel's "V8" system, AMD is not far away from releasing something along the lines of an "8x8" system utilizing quad-core Opteron processors. AMD demonstrated its Barcelona in November of 2006 and mentioned that the new Opterons would be making a showing in mid-2007."
compared to myriad of workstation boards that are available for the Opteron and not the QuadFX special purpose board. There are even four socket boards available with multiple PCIe 16 sockets for the Opteron if you are inclined to count cores and the board for TYAN can be expanded to 8 sockets the intel chip sets suck next to nvidia ones
The duel Opteron workstation boards have x8 x16 x8 x16 pci-e, pci-x and some even have on board sas and they have SLI
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thundern4250qe.h tml
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thundern6650w.ht ml
http://www.nvidia.com/page/nforce_pro_workstation. html
what does intel have? x16 x4 pci-e and pci-x with some pci-e links used by the chipset link.
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Joe The Dragon writes:
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20061025A9047.html
Latest news
Monica Chen, Taipei; Steve Shen, DigiTimes.com [Wednesday 25 October 2006]
Microsoft will delay the release of the RTM (release to manufacturing) version, or build number 5824, of its Windows Vista operating system (OS) to the second week of November from the originally scheduled fourth week of October, according to sources at Taiwan PC makers who were informed by the software giant of the revised schedule.
The RTM build 5824 was originally set to be released this week after reducing the number of bugs found in the Windows Vista Release Candidate 2 (RC2) version from 1,450 to around 500, the sources noted.
However, additional bugs were found in the RTM build 5824 version, and together the bugs could paralyze an upgraded Vista-capable Windows XP OS, said the sources.
Microsoft has overcome the problems found in RTM build 5824, resulting in RTM build 5840, added the sources, noting that Microsoft will continue to test the new version until its release in November.
Despite the delayed launch of the RTM version, Microsoft assured PC makers that its plan to launch the business-use and home-use Vista OS in November 2006 and January 2007, respectively, remain unchanged, the sources stated.