Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Leopard gets UNIX 03 certification

OS X's commercial credentials recently got a major boost from the Open Group. Thanks to the efforts of Apple's OS boss Kevin Van Vechten and his team, Leopard has cleared all of the hurdles required to attain UNIX 03 certification. That places Apple in elite company. Only Sun, IBM and HP are certified, so OS X turns the Big Three into the Big Four.

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Saturday, July 28, 2007

Creative charging $9.99 for Vista drivers?

From the "that's gotta be a dumb PR move" files, Creative Labs decides to try to charge $9.99 for Vista compatible drivers for the Audigy range of sound cards.

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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Me and My Mac

John C Dvorak finally comes around on Apple and the Mac

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Saturday, June 16, 2007

Michael Moore's new documentary "Sicko" leaked on BitTorrent

Won't have to worry about copies getting seized by the Feds after all.



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Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Second DX10 Strike for ATI HD 2900 XT

Legit Reviews has posted up another article showing image quality downfalls of the newly released AMD/ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT, this time running a DirectX10 demo of Lost Planet: Extreme Condition. This article really drives home how far AMD/ATI (now pronounced 'DAAMIT') has to catch up in order to realistically play any DX10 titles! Check it out!



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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Vista Game Performance: Vista vs. XP and ATI vs. Nvidia

A Vista upgrade may mean you'll lose a little game performance. How much slower can you expect your games to run? Which has the better Vista drivers: NVIDIA or ATI? Read this article and find out.



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Vista: Whatever happened to fast boot?

Anyone else remember when Microsoft used to talk about making Windows Vista (or Longhorn, as it was then known) a fast-booting operating system. Fast, as in cold boots that were 50 percent faster than those possible with Windows XP? Something obviously went awry.



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