Entries from CTOForADay.com tagged with 'hardware'
360 Fall 2006 Software Update: HDTV Devolved
Microsoft has just pushed out its Fall 2006 dashboard update; in so doing, it has clarified its definition of what HDTV means as it applies to the XBOX 360. Here's what's right, and what's wrong.
The Race Is On: ATI vs. NVidia
Microsoft's release of specifications for Longhorn has many implications for the 3D graphics market, and the latest releases from NVidia and ATI, which will essentially be the low-end requirements for Longhorn's new visuals, lay the ground for the great, looming battle over market share; which company will benefit from Microsoft's change of design?
The frailty of modern technology...
Sure, we love our machines, we say, when they work. But you can't drop them, they don't survive even minor earthquakes without losing all of your data, and, unforgettably, they're very touchy about being switched off while they're busy.
Convergence; alternately titled "How Things Don't Work".
For some time now, convergence has been a popular subject amongst the technocrati and marketeers of the world. Convergence, in this case, of the "media center", into a unified media environment. The latest steps taken on this road are from...
Profiles in Success: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Apple has profiled the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University's new System X, lovingly referred to by some as Big Mac: The worlds third-fastest supercomputer, built from shiny, new, off-the-shelf G5 systems (1100 to be exact), was born in November of 2003.
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