TweetThe answer is, “of course you don’t need that.” The response that follows, however, is, “but that’s not the point!” Face facts buddy, you’re never going to own a real Delorean let alone one with a flux capacitor and Mr. Fusion on the back so that’s why we buy models. But why get a 1/18th [...]
TweetIt seems that Facebook is about to hold yet another event, this time in advance of Zucky’s talk at the Web 2.0 Summit. TechCrunch and Engadget have speculated, by the fairly obvious mail and messaging clues in the design of the invite, that this may have something to do with Facebook’s Project Titan email client [...]
TweetYes, it’s true, the new AMD Radeon HD 6800 series of cards (Barts core) perform slightly worse than the previous generation of 5800 series cards … on purpose. It might be hard to wrap your head around the concept of increasing a model number while decreasing performance but AMD’s thinking is that they wanted to [...]
TweetOK, so you can’t really buy it or anything but at least AMD is finally showing off hardware prototypes of it’s 32nm Llano APU (Accelerated Processing Unit, according to AMD). No idea what any of that mean? I forgive you, it’s been a while since AMD promised us this golden age. The Fusion APU’s are [...]
TweetThat image, dear friends, is the future. Well, OK, the future of ATI AMD’s line of Radeon video cards anyway. And for the moment, that’s about all we know. AMD teased us with a barrage of images but the specs will have to wait until a Friday reveal. Until then I can tell you that [...]
TweetThe story goes like this: a professor in Sweden, who wishes to remain anonymous, places his bag containing laptop, keys, credit cards, calendar and various important documents under the stairwell in his apartment complex while he goes to the laundry room. When he comes back, the bag is gone, naturally. The most upsetting for him [...]
TweetI’ll be honest, when Microsoft revealed Bing I was glad to see something that might finally give Google a little competition to keep things interesting but I really didn’t expect too much. I use Bing now but of course I still use Google as well, moreso in fact, and iGoogle is still my homepage. When [...]
TweetAs promised, it’s here, the new Radeon HD 5870 from AMD. In case you forgot this card is basically double everything you had in the RV790 chips (Radeon HD 4890) running in the same power envelope with lower idle power consumption. Not bad eh? It’s built using TSMC’s 40nm process allowing those 2.15b transistors to [...]
TweetLike the idea of running a gaming rig with multiple GPU’s a-crankin’ but don’t want to be tied down to one chipset or graphics card manufacturer? Well Lucid’s gotcha covered. Enter the Hydra 200 real time distributed processing engine. When first announced over a year ago many people, myself included, expected nothing. A chip that [...]
TweetBoth AMD and Nvidia are gearing up to release new DirectX 11 capable cards in just a few weeks and it seems like AMD has come out swinging. Their new RV870 core powered cards, to be called the Radeon HD 58xx series (no surprises there), effectively doubles the processing power over last generations Rv770 with [...]
