Making Sense of Specs
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In many cases, product specifications may mean something different from what they appear to, or mean nothing at all.
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By Mike Rogoway, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Feb. 12--When Intel built its first "tera-scale" computer, capable of  handling a trillion calculations per second, the machine was the size of a  middle-class home.   That was 1996.
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AMD's new form factor aims to make it easier for enthusiasts and system builders to create small-form-factor systems. Here's a look inside the reference design.
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Diligent announced its ProtecTIER Mid-range Entry Package and the Mid-range Standard Package, two appliances that let users perform disk-to-disk backup and deduplication of redundant data. While the appliances emulate the operations of a tape library, they are faster and with the deduplication of data, can reduce the amount of data being backed up by as much as a 20:1 ratio.
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(Source: Symphoniq) You can't manage what you can't measure.  Learn why traditional performance tools can't deliver the visibility and control required to manage today's complex architectures.  Also learn about key requirements an optimal solution should provide.  View this 5-Minute solution preview.
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Beautiful display and plenty of power, but what's up with the nonadjustable base?
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Gabe: We did a really awesome project (can I say it"s awesome, is that okay?) for Wired magazine. You can either go pick up the most recent issue and read it there or check it out on their site. They asked us to do a piece for them handicapping all three of the next generation systems. We tried to be as fair as we could and hopefully you"ll get a kick out of it.
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Tycho:  With that gigantic PC behind me - a PC I have begun to call the Night Engine - we finally have a machine in here that can run Crysis, and run it well.  Reasonably well.  Not at max resolution, by any means.  The sweet spot is around 1440x900 here, a point at which he performance and gameplay have reached an uneasy truce.  They'll be showing off a console version of their engine at the next GDC, which was inevitable, but they'll also be revealing a "six hundred dollar machine" that will run Crysis well.  That must be the comedy portion of the act.
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By Marshall Loeb  So you've decided to take advantage of the sales to buy a computer this holiday season. Whether it's for yourself or a gift, you'll soon be confronted with a bewildering array of jargon to determine the type of computer you need.
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Choosing a high-definition television can be tough. Here's a basic guide through the industry's alphabet soup.
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Users can search by file format, size, and duration.
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Hardware manufacturers are in fix when it comes to settling down for a standard for DVDs. Toshiba, NEC and Sanyo are favoring a next-generation DVD standard called HD (high-definition) DVD while Sony and other
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Avoiding errors In a recent article here in The Register we saw some of the problems that result when floating point numbers are misused or chosen inappropriately.â¦
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Thinks PCs are a fatty, fatty 2x4 When is a thin client computer too thin?â¦
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Qualities to look for when sizing up insurers' shares.
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How to appear to exceed 4GHz without exceeding it
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Here's what one university library found when they compared the hardware and software costs.