"Busy Hattie" by Flora Smith, age 6.
"Busy Hattie" by Flora Smith, age 6.
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Deepfreezing a Transmeta efficeon
What's that next to the Tony's pizza, frozen vegetables and Lean Cuisine? Why a wirelessly remote controlled, $1,500 Transmeta efficeon notebook running benchmarks. And what happened? Performance improved up to 20%, among other things.
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Transmeta's Achilles' Heel, The Creature From Jekyl Island and more.
Get a sneak peek at this COSBI OpenSourceMark beta, the most flexible, useful and verifiable benchmark available today. OSMark is a comprehensive benchmarking suite that is easily user extensible and will be ported to Linux. We'll be releasing the source code as soon as we finish the documentation and stomp out the remaining bugs. Follow the link above to learn how to use OSMark and download the beta.
A look at two Prescotts.
Van looks at the oh-so-hot Prescott, the chilly-willy Banias, Linux, PocoMail and more.
In our first major article in nearly a year, we closely examine the merits of the struggling, brash little CPU designer and its chances to reverse its fortunes with an ambitious new design dubbed "Astro."
Finding God in war, my late father penned this true story about twenty-five years ago.
Readers tell us what they think about a Do-It-Yourself mobile standard.
Breaking Performance Bottlenecks of SMP Systems with Opteron
Spencer writes, "How are we going to wring out the maximum performance from AMD Opteron systems? We don't want to simply match existing SMP performance (which can be awful) but develop both OS and application designs which take advantage of the lack of limitations the new AMD architecture provides." Read more on what Spencer has to say here.
Kathy returns to Sam's Club to retest the PCs. Also, available for download is a preview version of COSBI QuickTest.
Kathy tests the newest version of COSBI at the local Sam's Club. She shares her results and experience with the new benchmarking application.
How Intel Subverts Journalists
Van comments on Mike Magee's story and discusses a recent experience with an Intel email.
In a teleconference today, AMD christened the Sledgehammer “Opteron.” We also discuss the background of this new enterprise-class CPU and have pictures from WinHec of the Opteron in action.
Van reports from WinHEC 2002. Exclusive details and pictures from Intel's Banias demo at WinHEC.
AMD Launches First Thoroughbred
Van reports from WinHec. With the new 0.13-micron-based CPU introduction, the chipmaker revamps its mobile lineup. Barton is also discussed.
Letter to Arctic Silver: Benefits Of CPU Compound Combined with Carbon Nanotubes
Phil writes, "Spencer’s link on the thermal properties of carbon nanotubes got me thinking how it might be used in thermal paste for CPUs. Here is my email to Nevin House with Arctic Silver along with his response."