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| Weekend topic: Should you pay twice as much for a Mac? Joe Wilcox of eWeek.com and Apple-Watch.com has a blog style article posted about; Should you pay twice as much for a Mac? I don't want to dwell on it too much as I do work for a competing company. However, I can see where his blog is going in terms of paying twice as much. Earlier this week I was shopping for some components to re-salvage a PC from a local client. In doing so, the client didn't have much to spend, but I thought I would make some suggestions on a retail branded PC. I went to a few store websites and found an HP a6554f. Which features the following; Tower based Desktop chassis PCI-e x16 slot 5GB of DDR2 memory 750GB HD DVD+RW Core2Quad Q6600 @ 2.4Ghz. Vista HP 64bit SP1 All for $699 AC/AR. So, How do I explain or justify to a client that the Mac is worth twice as much? Very interesting blog by Joe Wilcox. |
| VIA quits motherboard chipset business It has been a long time since we heard from the company that brought us the K8T800 series chipset PT880 series chipset for supporting both, Advanced Micro Devices and Intel processors. However, with such a long hiatus from the chipset market, the company is now looking to throw in the towel for the motherboard chipset market. The decision makes sense (in my opinion) as AMD has fully acquired ATi branding and technology as well to form their very own brand of AMD based chipsets & graphics solutions. While, Intel is on track to shift their processors to support integrated Memory controllers on-die to the processor next year. There was a lone competitor named, ULi. Who was later acquired in 2007 by the Nvidia corporation. Whom, also makes a competitive chipsets for both Intel and Advanced Micro Devices. The other chipset competitor, SiS, who once made a deal with RAMBUS to support RDRAM solutions for the Pentium 4 some years ago have been quiet in terms of blockbuster chipset solutions. But, SiS have a deal with Microsoft on the Xbox 360 console to supply media chipsets to the appliance which has a growth of over 10 million units sold. VIA will continue its focus on their embedded 'x86 compatible' processors and chipsets to support it. The blurb is courtesy of CustomPC. |
| Seven Client OSes That Could Replace Windows Microsoft's Windows Operating system carries the lead in Desktop operating systems sales volume. However, there are alternative operating systems on the market, that 'could' pose a threat to that position. eWeek.com editor, Jason Brooks compiled a slide show of the contenders. Pretty interesting read. Check it out here. |
| CompTIA exam pricing increase For those of you who are looking at getting an IT certification such as ones from CompTIA, maybe need to spend a bit more funds. The industry certification company has increase the price, 3% of their certifications as of 8/1/08. Here are the new prices in USD: - CompTIA A+ $132 (member)/$168 (non-member) - CompTIA CDIA+ $208/$258 - CompTIA Convergence $191/$239 - CompTIA CTT+ (CBT) $191/$239 - CompTIA CTT+ (VBT) $208/$258 - CEA-CompTIA DHTI+ $191/$239 - CompTIA Linux+ $191/$239 - CompTIA Network+ $191/$239 - CompTIA PDI+ $191/$239 - CompTIA Project+ $191/$239 - CompTIA Security+ $208/$258 - CompTIA Server+ $191/$239 Link |
| Spam King in Murder-Suicide The title of the article is shocking. But, to many people, spam can be one of the worst experiences in Information Technology. Eddie Davidson, who escaped from a minimum security prison (go figure) after starting his sentence in April 2008 for sending unsolicited emails. He escaped, killing his wife, & daughter. As well as himself in the end. Some say it is a tragedy, others say it's one less spammer. Read. |
| Mozilla releases Fire Fox update 3.0.1 & 2.0.0.16 The Mozilla group have published an update for both their browsers, versions 3 and version 2. Check it out here. |
| Microsoft Windows Home Server Update Arrives For those of you who haven't kept up, Microsoft has released a relevant update for their new Operating system, WHS(Windows Home Server). If you have done the neccessary update, post up your results. Read. |
| Happy Birthday Massa Today, is a good day. Because the Massa of the Masses is now older. Happy birthday Boss.  |
| Intel Bloomfield CPU pricing reveals pleasant surprise Need more power? Intel has it. The company is expecting launch Bloomfield core pricing. The processor is apart of the Extreme Series product line. With a clock frequency of 3.2Ghz, it has a price listing of $999. It is targeted at the Gaming market. Read. |
| Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus' Linux guru, Linus Torvalds has a new segment of the industry on his radar. This time, it's the Information Technology market. This is going to get flagrent so I'll let you just read the rest. Linux creator Linus Torvalds has labeled makers of the OpenBSD operating system a "bunch of masturbating monkeys," as part of a wider critique of what he said was self-centered behavior in the IT security industry. All I can say is, Read. |