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Archive for December 4, 2008
Intel i7: $999 from Dell
Dec 4th
For the note, I noticed the other day on Dell that they offered the brand new, mind-blowingly fast processor, the Intel Core i7 (yeah, that’s really the name, we went from Petium to Core, to Core 2, and now Core i7??). You can read more about Intel Core i7 at PCPer.com. Basically, this CPU architecture is the biggest change in computing since the original Penium, and did I mention it’s (base) 2.66 GHz quad core? All of that together, Dell is now offering the Core i7 in two of their products, the XPS 730x, and the Studio XPS. The Studio XPS retails for $999! Under 1k! wow.
Screentoaster.com: VMWare Test
Dec 4th
I performed a test on my Vista laptop, C2D 2GHz, 2GB Ram, NVidia 8400 using VMWare Workstation and Screentoaster.com.
I thought the best way to test the efficientcy of the imp[lementation of Screentoaster.com’s screen recorder, I would boot a VMWare machine. This is a very intensive task, and during the recording I did find my computer a bit sluggish, Vista reverted to basic non-Aero display mode, and expectedly took longer than average to boot the virtual machine. Here is the video output.
