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1. Analysts spout crap, charge megabucks

   (Software/Software Opinion)

   Friday, 16 October 2009

   Opinion: Analysts are just journalists in sharp suits who only have to write two stories a year for their $250K salaries. And just because you have to pay through the nose to read their words of wisdom ...

2. Update: Firefox 3.5 is fast, but still behind Chrome and Safari

   (Software/Software Features)

   Tuesday, 30 June 2009

   ... 3.5, which was well behind the WebKit engine-based Chrome and Safari browsers. Now that we have the final version, we wondered: Did Firefox gain more speed? The opinions about Apple’s Safari browser may ...

3. Intel vs. AMD 6-core CPUs: Speed vs. power?

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 01 June 2009

   Opinion – When Intel introduced its Dunnington 6-core processors back in September of 2008, we considered it a stunning achievement, but knew that it would be about as far as the Core architecture ...

4. Rethinking benchmarks for a new consumer

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

   Sunday, 19 April 2009

   Analyst Opinion - We have all seen the excellent work various web site and analysts like us have done over the years in comparing the latest graphics AIBs, and, more recently, the new graphics-enabled motherboards. ...

5. Qualcomm backs Zeebo, a new game console

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Tuesday, 24 March 2009

   ... their games available for Zeebo. Editor's note It's nice to see game makers being interested in creating lower-graphics games again. In this man's opinion, the game is not determine by the quality ...

6. Apple tax on the latest Mac gear: 40 percent

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 05 March 2009

   ... at, in my opinion. IT ALL "JUST WORKS"Since Apple makes the hardware, the operating system and most applications which run on top of it, Macs deliver a unique integration that translates into ease of use. ...

7. Apple gets another secret Intel processor

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Tuesday, 03 March 2009

   Opinion – You have to admit that there is a pattern. For the third time in two years, Apple announces a new computer with a processor that officially does not yet exist. Today it is the upcoming Xeon ...

8. Showdown: iPhone vs. Blackberry Storm

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   Friday, 21 November 2008

   ... Blackberry Storm 9530 (5 pictures)    3G vs. Wi-Fi Unlike the iPhone, Storm lacks Wi-Fi. A huge omission in our opinion, though some point to the fact that business users mainly rely ...

9. Nehalem: Intel gives the industry exactly what's needed

   (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

   Tuesday, 18 November 2008

   Opinion - I have been very surprised reading the commentary from other websites regarding Core i7. Many of those authors believe Intel fell short with this Tock cycle, essentially stating they did not ...

10. AMD unlikely to gain ground on Intel at 32 nm. Does it matter?

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 13 November 2008

      Opinion – AMD’s 2008 Financial Analyst Day, held yesterday, saw a much more upbeat AMD than last year. The first 45 nm CPU is out of the gate, there is a fantastic graphics chip lineup, a new ...

11. Apple expected to refresh its iMac on November 10

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 03 November 2008

    ... pricey QX9100 or QX9300 quad-cores an option for its iMacs – which would be the most likely scenario in our opinion. Beyond the processor, we can expect Apple to follow suit in the DRAM market with ...

12. Windows 7: Will it be good enough?

    (Software/Software Opinion)

    Sunday, 26 October 2008

    ... a purely subjective part and this author’s opinion on how the new features will compare to Vista’s shortcomings. Feel free to chime in at the end of this article and discuss with other readers how you ...

13. Nehalem = i7: Intel unveils new Core processor brand

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 10 August 2008

    ... the performance and features of each processor, i7 will only cause additional confusion that, in our opinion, is absolutely unnecessary. We give Intel the benefit of the doubt that i7 will make more sense ...

14. Does AMD block PhysX on Radeon development?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 14 July 2008

    ... Eran Badit claims to have succeeded in modifying the API to be supported by Radeon cards. Initial hoax claims were quickly replaced by a general opinion that such a software could establish CUDA as a ...

15. How a forgotten Intel invention could revolutionize the CPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 18 June 2008

    ... bandwidth within a processor. In our opinion, this technology is actually the most impressive research we saw on that day. The reason why you may not have heard about this technology is because Intel did ...

16. BioHazard CEO: “Skulltrail is overkill for current games”

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 04 May 2008

    ... playing a game. But the system was unstable and kept crashing. A journalist-filled is not exactly the best place to have your hardware go down. In my opinion, QuadFX seemed desperate.  It was almost ...

17. Tegra brand starts speculations about new Nvidia products

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 15 April 2008

    ... So, your guess is as good as ours what it actually will be. In this author's personal opinion, Tegra could be expansion or successor of nForce brand. Why? Well, wee have noticed that some chipsets are ...

18. Nvidia GPU physics engine up and running, almost

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 13 April 2008

    ... engineer’s remarks did not reflect the company’s opinion, the statement made waves at Nvidia and prompted the company to create a physics demo with 65,000 simulated particles. While Intel's Nehalem demo ...

19. AMD: To merge or not to merge?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Thursday, 14 February 2008

    TG Daily In Depth - The past 19 months certainly haven't been easy for the green team from Sunnyvale. Lately, we have seen persistent rumors that AMD has become an acquisition target, leading us to ...

20. Desktop Lust Update: Looking at the new AMD 4x4 Quadzilla and Intel V8

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 30 January 2008

    Analyst Opinion - Looking into buying a high-end AMD or Intel desktop monster? Here’s some food for thought on AMD’s and Intel’s fastest systems available today. Analyst Opinion - Last ...

21. The CPU that Intel built just for Apple

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 25 January 2008

    Analyst Opinion – A little over two years ago, a verbal Intel beating was a standard part of every Steve Jobs Macworld keynote. Today, Apple owes a lot of its PC success to Intel and its heritage ...

22. Do Intel's delays hint of 45nm woes?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 26 December 2007

    ... Author's opinion Intel wouldn't move release dates without some valid reason.  Is Intel just taking advantage of AMD's current heartaches--responding, as it were, the way a company ...

23. UPDATE: Who wants to buy AMD?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Friday, 14 December 2007

    Opinion - AMD's purchase price is decreasing rapidly.  Another opportune time to buy up AMD for a song may be headed our way in the very near future.  Can AMD's promise of a return to ...

24. AMD delays Barcelona, again

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 06 December 2007

    ... clock speed limitations, decreases in performance only further amplify their lesser performing x86 offering, relative to Intel's mature 45nm Core architecture based products. Author's opinion ...

25. Does AMD’s Spider catch Intel’s Penryn in its Web?

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 20 November 2007

    Analyst Opinion - The fourth quarter, particularly after Black Friday, is particularly important to the PC industry. PCs are, for the first time in this decade, according to the CEA, at the top of the ...

26. Tech Tour Terascale: Developing Terascale 2

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Monday, 05 November 2007

    ... the next page:  Model-based computing, author's opinion           Model-based computing and Terascale 2 One of the biggest focuses on the software side today is the ...

27. Intel's goal for Penryn: "Ramp and win as fast as possible"

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 20 September 2007

    ... I’m opinionated on this area, but there’s little use for a desktop for people who do not need it. However, the ability to question it would’ve been much more relevant five years ago than ...

28. The AMD Barcelona back story

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Thursday, 13 September 2007

    Analyst Opinion – We have covered the launch of AMD's quad-core Opteron CPU extensively and talked about the good and the bad of the product introduction. What we haven't talked about are ...

29. Generic CPU power efficiency claims are pointless, almost

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Wednesday, 12 September 2007

    Opinion - What do the power claims really mean? Is it just the power of illusion pulled over your eyes? Opinion - After spending some time reviewing several power efficiency claims and reports I have ...

30. AMD's Barcelona introduction: A celebration without fireworks

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Monday, 10 September 2007

    Opinion - AMD officially pulled back the curtain on its Opteron quad-core processor with an event held at the San Francisco's Letterman Digital Arts Center, home to Star Wars creator George Lucas. ...

31. AMD is all in

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Monday, 10 September 2007

    Opinion - AMD's actions in recent quarters reveal a trend we can only describe as: all in. It's a poker term meaning AMD bet it all on Barcelona. But is Barcelona enough? Can AMD make it with ...

32. TG Daily Special: Virtualization Explored - Part 2

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 10 August 2007

    ... the virtualization environment VMware and take a look at where this technology is heading and the author's opinion about what is needed. Virtual machines in business Businesses are typically the ...

33. Analysis: AMD's technology opiate

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 27 July 2007

    ... pick up AMD for a song, take their advanced IP and begin moving forward with real R&D and manufacturing resources. In my opinion, this would be the best thing that could happen to AMD. The belly-up ...

34. Analysis: Has Intel found the key to unlock supercomputing powers on the desktop?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 17 June 2007

    ... of accelerator extensions will provide performance speedups to the user.   Read on the next page: Author Opinion: As good as it gets - or is there more?        Author Opinion ...

35. Computex Wars: AMD vs. Intel vs. VIA - and some unexpected implications

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 08 June 2007

    Analyst Opinion - At Computex this week we saw a new round of the battle of CPU manufacturers: Intel came out swinging hard, which further validated AMD’s ATI acquisition strategy. But AMD may have ...

36. Computex 2007

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    Sunday, 03 June 2007

    ... DTX spec Corsair takes DDR3 memory to 2 GHz Computex Wars: AMD vs. Intel vs. VIA - and some unexpected implications: Analyst Opinion Slideshows  ...

37. Analyst opinion: Dell’s and Gateway’s gaming strategies compared

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 25 May 2007

    Dell and Gateway are getting more serious to capture market share in the PC gaming market. Rob Enderle has a look at both strategies and the products behind it.When I first started out covering PCs, Dell ...

38. Analyst opinion: Intel kicks laptops into high gear

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 11 May 2007

    There is a lot going on this week in terms of laptop PCs thanks to the arrival of Intel’s new Santa Rosa chipset. But this isn’t just about Intel, new AMD products are rolling to market ...

39. Intel develops integrated memory controller for Nehalem processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 29 March 2007

    ... “We are not requiring our customers to make wholesale infrastructure changes in order to achieve incremental performance gains."   What is your opinion? Is Intel’s introduction of ...

40. Analyst opinion: Putting the “Lust” back into a performance PC

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 09 March 2007

    ... Why is it that PCs have to be boring and how would a Bugatti PC look like? Share your opinion with us! I was just watching a video of the Bugatti Veyron at its top speed of a mind blistering 253 mph. ...

41. CES 2007: A preview of what you can expect to see on the showfloor

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 05 January 2007

    ... to launch video download service for Windows Vista Opinion and Commentary: Rob Enderle: Searching for the perfect Media Center PC Rob Enderle What you will see at CES and MacWorld CES 2006 Coverage: ...

42. Consumer Electronics Show 2007

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    Sunday, 31 December 2006

    ... rings in second wave of AMD Live! entertainment PCs MSI to release second notebook with crystal inlays The battle for the digital home - analyst opinion Highly integrated DTV chips expected ...

43. Opinion: Can AMD reinvent the microprocessor?

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Monday, 18 December 2006

    Groundbreaking developments in the microprocessor space typically come along once a decade. Think about the Gigahertz race in the late 90s and the multi-core trend started last year. AMD is now convinced ...

44. AMD demonstrates first native quad-core CPU

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 30 November 2006

    ... three FX processors for 4x4 platform Intel unleashes quad-core processors Opinion: Should you switch to quad-core now?  ...

45. AMD launches 4x4 platform Quad FX

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 30 November 2006

    ... 4x4 platform Intel unleashes quad-core processors Opinion: Should you switch to quad-core now?  ...

46. Opinion: Should you switch to quad-core now?

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Tuesday, 14 November 2006

    Admitted, the question whether to upgrade or not to upgrade to a quad-core processor won't be really problem many buyers of these pricey new processors will spend much time on. If you got the money to ...

47. Intel unleashes quad-core processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 14 November 2006

    ... as a preview of what Intel is planning for the near future. Related articles: Opinion: Should you switch to quad-core now? Dell first to officially roll out quad-core system Tom's Hardware benchmarks Intel's ...

48. Dell first to officially roll out quad-core system

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 13 November 2006

    ... "for a dramatic gaming experience." The display will cost $1600. Related articles: Opinion: Should you switch to quad-core now? Intel unleashes quad-core processors Tom's Hardware benchmarks Intel's first ...

49. Microsoft takes Zune website live

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 06 November 2006

    ... 14 November for $250 Opinion: Zune in, Zune out Toshiba to build Zune for Microsoft Apple intros sleeker and higher capacity Ipods, adds movies to Itunes First look: Watch out Ipod, here comes ... K5? ...

50. AMD's quad-core CPU to consume dual-core power

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 23 June 2006

    ... on Freuhe's assumption that "Core" will use more power when more cores are added, but disagreed when we asked about their opinion on AMD's general power consumption statements. "Intel has both performance ...