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Dell Price Discrepancies->

Submitted by EK103
EK103 writes "I recently decided to buy myself a new laptop. After rigorously comparing hardware specs across a multitude of brands, I came to the conclusion that Dell had the best prices for my chosen configuration. However, upon further perusal of the Dell online store, I realized that the same XPS 15 laptop configuration can have up to five radically different prices depending on the pathway one chooses. By "radical," I mean differences of around $400. These discrepancies seem either in error or deliberately misleading to me. But whatever the reason, I am shocked by this discovery, and humbly ask Slashdot: How is this possible? Why is Dell doing this? And is this practice now the norm?"
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Internet Explorer

Microsoft Launches new 'Get the facts' campaign-> 5

Submitted by ko9
ko9 writes "Microsoft has launched their "Get the facts" campaign, in an attempt to promote Internet Explorer 8. It contains a chart that compares IE8 to Firefox and Chrome. Needless to say, IE8 comes out as the clear winner, with MS suggesting it is the only browser to provide features like 'privacy', 'security', 'reliability'. It even claims to have Firefox beat in 'customizability'. Almost all of these are at the very least stretching the truth, and more likely blatant lies. To people like me, this page would destroy a lot of the credibility MS might have had with me. I'm wondering if the average joe will question these facts though, or will he just blindly accept them as facts, because a big company like Microsoft would not lie this openly?"
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Graphics

Ray tracing for gaming explored-> 3

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Vigile writes "Ray tracing is still thought of as the 'holy grail' for real-time imagery but because of the intense amount of calculations required it has been plagued with long frame render times. This might soon change, at least according to an article from Daniel Pohl, a researcher at Intel. With upcoming many-core processors like Intel's Larrabee he believes that real-time ray tracing for games is much closer than originally thought thanks in large part to the efficiency it allows with spatial partitioning and reflections when compared to current rasterization techniques. Titles like Valve's Portal are analyzed to see how they could benefit from ray tracing technology and the article on PC Perspective concludes with the difficulties combing the two rendering techniques as well as a video of the technology in action."
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