Tom’s IT Pro has a look at the new AMD Opteron 3200 series processors that are taking aim at web hosts and other low-power usages.
Starting at under $100 and having both 4 and 8-core options, I like where AMD is headed here. At least it puts some pressure on Intel in at least one segment of the processor market.
I know that the most pleasing spec has to be the 45W and 65W TDP for the processors. That is low, and at the price, is going to be hard to beat.
It makes me very sad to see people bemoaning consumer-facing improvements in a device just so that we don’t have to deal with problems we have been ignoring for a LONG time. The web has pretty much been content serving terribly compressed and downsized images as a hack around poor bandwidth.
Guess what, those days are now coming to a close.
You can sit by and say:
I’m very afraid that exactly because of its excellence the Retina display will be a severe set-back for the mobile web, and maybe also for native iOS apps. Apple shouldn’t have ignored the fact that Moore’s Law doesn’t go for data connections.
Or you can take it as a challenge to figure out the best way to push things forward. High resolution displays on smaller devices MAKES THE DEVICE BETTER.
That’s really the only things that matters.
Fo who knows how many months in a row, the AMD Radeon 5770 takes the crown at the ~$110 level in Tom’s Hardware’s Best Graphics Cards For The Money.
I’ve been watching that list for months hoping that some other card from either major player would take the spot, but to no avail. The same card that I picked up a year ago for less than $100 still takes the crown.
To say I’ve been happy with my 5770 would be a gross understatement. Still, I’m disappointed that neither AMD nor Nvidia has seen it appropriate to produce a card that can beat it (the 6770 is just a rehashed 5770).
Missed yesterday by me is that Apple has also re-branded the backside camera for the iPhone 4S.
It is now known as the iSight Camera too.
Mark one down for consistency. I’m still thinking this year’s iPhone is simply that: iPhone.
Via Engadget, Intel has introduced the next generation of dual-socket, multi-core Xeon processors today.
So the clock starts for Apple to release new Mac Pros. I expect we’ll hear something before too long.