Archive for May, 2006
Microsoft today revealed the minimum specifications for Windows Vista, in two tiers: "Vista Capable" and "Premium Ready." And as usual, the emphasis is on minimum.
I was actually, after all the hype, expecting Vista's requirements to be higher than what was announced. Most people who bought a somewhat decent PC in the last 2 years should have enough CPU horsepower and RAM for the new OS.
One item which WILL r [...]
Well I read all the posts and articles about people experiencing hardware failure problems with their Xbox 360. I thought to myself, "nah" that's not going to happen to me.
Sure enough, I got the system on December 12, 2005 I have been playing it since then without a single issue. As you can see from my gamerscoe on the gamercard on this site I have played quite a bit and enjoyed it.
So as I said, the thing [...]
Sony probably didn't want anyone to find out until closer to launch but thanks to the wonderful interweb, the cat is now out of the bag.
The "budget" $499 PS3 system apart from having a smaller HD (20 vs 60GB) than the "premium" $599 PS3 actually has several other features missing including HDMI output! WTF? What happened to true-HD? What good is BluRay without HDMI..apart from HDMI, the $499 system also doesn't [...]
One of the main problems with Windows Mobile 5.0 devices is that they don't have a lot of RAM available to users so you can't run a lot of applications at the same time, and on top of that some applications aren't good about returning the RAM they use after they're done.
RAM in Windows Mobile 5.0 works in the same way as RAM on a PC. It's volatile storage which means that if power is lost everything in [...]
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