Archive for December 2008

Youtube: Youtube Three Years Ago… 2005

I saw this on Amber Mac’s blog (Amber a well known Canadian tech-journalist)… she reviewed Youtube in 2005–on Call For Help Canada. Interesting how far it’s come… note that Youtube is now in 720p HD.

 

Youtube HD

However I may be late in announcing this here, I wanted some time to hear other reactions of Youtube’s annoucement of HD (720p) movie support.  This adds a new file-size limit of 1GB (10 minutes.) and a “Watch in HD” option, if you remember the “Watch In High Quality” option, this is big.  I found a great site exaplining this, Squidoo.com, link here, and basically they outline the stats for HD. Continue reading Youtube HD

Intel i7: $999 from Dell

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.