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11/05/2006 - Microsoft rilascia aggiornamenti del mese - Microsoft, come di consueto, ha rilasciato lo scorso gli aggiornamenti per il mese di Maggio. Sono 3 le patch da installare. |
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11/05/2006 - HP rinnova il parco macchine - HP presenta il rinnovamento della linea di portatili professionali per le esigenze della mobilità e una nuova filosofia per i prodotti consumer spiccatamente orientati al multimediale |
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11/05/2006 - Google Desktop 4: arrivano i Gadgets - Google Desktop 4 può essere personalizzato con interessanti e utili Gadgets |
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11/05/2006 - Turion 64 X2: in arrivo il prossimo 17 Maggio - Emergono nuovi dettagli sulle cpu AMD per sistemi notebook dotate di architettura dual core: il lancio è questione di pochi giorni |
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11/05/2006 - Prima apparizione per Command & Conquer 3 - In grande riservatezza, Electronic Arts ha mostrato, durante l'E3, il primo trailer dell'attesissimo terzo episodio della serie di strategici in tempo reale più famosa. |
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11/05/2006 - Una nuova cpu Intel Pentium 4 - Appare in commercio, nel mercato giapponese, una nuova cpu Pentium 4: si tratta del modello 524 |
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11/05/2006 - Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway: mostrato e rinviato - Ubisoft ha ufficialmente annunciato un posticipo per l'interessante terzo episodio della serie di sparatutto tattici realizzata da Gearbox. |
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11/05/2006 - Windows Live Messenger disponibile la beta pubblica - E' possibile provare Windows Live Messenger di Microsoft: obiettivo VoIP e condivisione file |
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11/05/2006 - FREE-hotspot.com anche a Milano - Ogni HotSpot situato a Milano puo' ora diventare un FREE HotSpot Certificato. Conversione gratuita per il gestore del locale |
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11/05/2006 - Il ritorno di Golden Axe - Svelato all'E3, da parte di SEGA, un nuovo episodio dell'indimenticabile picchiaduro a scorrimento orizzontale. |
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11/05/2006 - Warner Bros: vendita di film tramite Bittorrent - Il colosso cinematografico ha annunciato un accordo con Bittorrent per la vendita di film e serie tv attraverso la rete |
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11/05/2006 - Due notebook SLI da Alienware - Il produttore americano, specializzato in sistemi per videogiocatori, presenta due notebook con GPU GeForce Go in configurazione SLI |
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11/05/2006 - Da Free Radical arriva Haze - Con il rilacio del line-up E3, Ubisoft aveva svelato l'esistenza di un nuovo progetto affidato a Free Radical. Adesso ne sappiamo di più. |
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11/05/2006 - GeForce 7300 GT in arrivo - NVIDIA si prepara a introdurre sul mercato una nuova scheda video di fascia entry level, posizionata ad un costo di circa 100€ |
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11/05/2006 - Plextor, nuovo masterizzatore DVD 18x PX760SA SerialATA - Plextor presenta la versione serialATA del proprio masterizzatore DVD 18X, siglata PX760SA |
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10/05/2006 - Warcraft in futuro anche al cinema - Secondo l'autorevole New York Times, Blizzard è pronta ad annunciare la trasposizione cinematografica della sua celeberrima serie fantasy. |
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10/05/2006 - RotaryWave: generatore di clock rivoluzionario? - Un nuovo tipo di generatore di clock permetterebbe di realizzare processori dal consumo energetico contenuto, risparmiando fino al 75% dell'energia necessaria |
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10/05/2006 - Anche Windows Vista ha un suo line-up - Microsoft ha svelato la lista dei giochi che fanno parte dell'E3 e che sfrutteranno la tecnologia alla base di Windows Vista. |
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10/05/2006 - Notebook overcloccati di default - La paratica di aumentare la frequenza di funzionamento dei processori sembra interessare anche i sistemi portatili |
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10/05/2006 - Annunciata un'espansione per Star Wars: L'Impero in Guerra - LucasArts svela l'esistenza di un progetto legato all'espansione dell'RTS di Petroglyph Star Wars: L'Impero in Guerra. |
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10/05/2006 - Schede madri, consegne in calo - I quattro principali produttori taiwanesi prefigurano una flessione sia per il mese di maggio, sia per l'intero trimestre a causa di una domanda piuttosto debole |
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10/05/2006 - Symantec: "siamo migliori di Microsoft, non temiamo concorrenza" - Pesante dichiarazione di Symantec nei confronti del venturo Windows OneCare. La società di Cupertino riafferma la propria superiorità nel campo della sicurezza informatica |
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10/05/2006 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ritorna all'E3 - Anche se non è stato inserito nel line-up del produttore THQ, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fa parte della lista dei giochi presentati all'E3. |
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10/05/2006 - 279€ per la Sapphire Radeon X1900 GT? - Prezzo indicativo particolarmente aggressivo per la nuova scheda video Sapphire del segmento di fascia medio alta del mercato |
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12/05/2006 - Bush: si` vi spiamo, ma non vi preoccupate - Il presidente americano minimizza le rivelazioni shock secondo cui l'intelligence americana ha avuto la piena collaborazione dei maggiori operatori TLC per registrare i dati di miliardi di telefonate |
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12/05/2006 - Parigi: ecco il DRM alla francese - Il Senato approva nuove modifiche alla legge sul diritto d'autore: il codice del DRM dovra' essere svelato per garantire la possibilita' di convertire i file da un formato all'altro. Pene leggere per chi scarica file protetti |
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12/05/2006 - Blocco dei siti, arriva l'Ufficiale Giudiziario - Il bookmaker maltese a cui il Tribunale civile di Roma ha dato ragione non riesce a smuovere i Monopoli di Stato e il suo sito rimane bloccato. Ieri ha quindi inviato ai Monopoli l'Ufficiale Giudiziario |
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12/05/2006 - Download/ Musica musicanti! - Billy suona, tra musica casuale, mp3 modificati e liste in mutazione ed in LAN. Se il Silenzio e' d'oro, la Musica e' platino puro |
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12/05/2006 - Pronti i dischi HD DVD-R da 30 GB - Il colosso taiwanese CMC ha avviato la produzione in volumi di dischi registrabili HD DVD a singolo layer, ovvero da 15 GB. Ma nel prossimo trimestre lancera' gli HD DVD-R da 30 GB |
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12/05/2006 - 4 GB per la PlayStation Portable - SanDisk si appresta a lanciare sul mercato le prime memory card per PSP con capacita' di 4 GB. Le nuove Memory Stick PRO Duo Game possono contenere decine di ore di video e migliaia di canzoni |
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12/05/2006 - Adobe offre AJAX in Spry - Il colosso dei tool di sviluppo per il web ha rilasciato l'anteprima di un framework che promette di semplificare ai web designer la creazione di pagine e applicazioni web basate sulle tecnologie AJAX |
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12/05/2006 - Sony supportera` il formato di iPod - Grazie ad un software gratuito, l'azienda fornira' ai possessori dei propri player con hard disk la possibilita' di gestire e convertire le tracce audio in formato AAC, lo stesso adottato da iPod. Ma solo per file non protetti |
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12/05/2006 - No, i domini del sesso non ci saranno - ICANN boccia la proposta di creare estensioni.xxx e questa volta potrebbe essere una bocciatura senza appello. Contrari quasi tutti. Partono i.mobi, i domini per cellulari avversati da Tim Berners-Lee |
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12/05/2006 - Il worm piu` diffuso? E' del 2004 - Lo sostiene Sophos ed e' una notizia che fa tremare l'industria della sicurezza: sono ancora moltissimi gli utenti Windows che non aggiornano il proprio sistema e non si dotano di antivirus. Con rischi per tutti |
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12/05/2006 - Software e film pirata nelle imprese laziali - Blitz della GdF in alcuni comuni: ispezionate imprese e studi professionali. Molti installavano software senza licenza, altri lo scaricavano da Internet e lo craccavano. Altri collezionavano musica e film illegali |
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12/05/2006 - USA, i pirati di Xbox patteggiano - Vendevano console Microsoft modificate e ricolme di giochi pirata a prezzi che arrivavano a 500 dollari. Arrestati, ora cercano di evitare sentenze che potrebbero essere pesantissime. Uno di loro e' latitante |
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12/05/2006 - I cani che trovano i DVD pirata - Ne parla MPAA in una nota diffusa nelle scorse ore: sono due animali utilizzati per la prima volta a Londra. Sarebbero in grado di capire se nei plichi di un corriere si nascondono DVD, originali o pirata |
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12/05/2006 - UK, il numero mobile e` temporaneo - Attivabile a discrezione dell'utente, il numero usa e getta e' pensato per coloro che vogliono garantire una reperibilita' limitata |
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12/05/2006 - Cassandra Crossing/ Biometria e SIS II - di Marco Calamari - La UE e' alle prese con un database biometrico comunitario. Ma chi lo gestira'? Con quali? Dentro anche i dati della Carta di Identita' Elettronica italiana? L'onda lunga della Biometria |
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12/05/2006 - Scarica un file, gli sequestrano tutto - Drammatica testimonianza di un lettore di PI, indagato perche' tra i file scaricati da eMule uno era a contenuto pedopornografico. Svegliato all'alba dalla PolPost non ha piu' il PC ne' un backup dei suoi dati |
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12/05/2006 - Incontri/ Appalti nell'era digitale - A breve |
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11/05/2006 - Sony and Panasonic Announce New HD Format - No, its not Blu-Ray. Sony and Panasonic announced today that they have co-developed a new high definition DVD format created specifically for camcorders. The new format, dubbed AVCHD, captures video onto 8cm DVDs using the MPEG4 AVC/H.264 compression system. This system allows video to be recorded at 18 megabits per second. Current HD video formats are 19 megabits (HD-1) and 25 megabits (HD-2). Current non-HD camcorders record at 8.5 megabits per second. Both companies have been working on this together for over a year.
The AVCHD format compresses HD video into smaller data streams so that it can fit onto existing 8cm DVD discs. This new technology will allow users to shoot HD video using the above codec at twice the efficiency of the current MPEG 2 and MPEG4 codecs. AVCHD will be able to shoot 1080i or 720p with 4:2:0 sampling and will work in either 4:3 or 16:9 formats.
Audiophiles need not worry. AVCHD will also be able to use either AC-3 or Linear PCM for high-quality sound. Using the AC-3 codec, users will be able to record 1 to 5.1 audio channels or 1 to 7.1 audio channels using Linear PCM.
The interesting part is that both Sony and Panasonic are backing Blu-Ray. Yet, the AVCHD format does not incorporate Blu-Ray technology. One would think that Sony would use this as an advantage to get its Blu-Ray technology into more consumer homes, much like they are doing with their Playstation 3. However, there is talk of the two formats (Blu-Ray and AVCHD) coexisting together. Sony also stated that since the two technologies use the same compression methods, “you should be able to play back an AVCHD disk on a Blu-Ray disc player.”
 News source: CamcorderInfo.com
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11/05/2006 - Abit to Introduce Motherboard with HDMI - Abit is set to unveil a MicroATX form factor motherboard which features onboard HDMI output - a first for the industry. The board, dubbed the IL-80MV, features the Intel 945GT chipset designed for Intel's current Yonah and upcoming Memom core Core Solo and Core Duo processors. It includes a single x1 PCI Express lane and two PCI slots which could possibly be used for an HDTV capture card or WiFi adapter, which combined with HDMI output make it an ideal platform for a low-noise, low-power home theater PC.
The preliminary pictures of DailyTech's website show the board will include the standard assortment of features including high definition audio, firewire, and USB 2.0. Additionally, Abit promises the final board will include a variant of its OTES cooling system. While board does not include an x16 PCI-E slot for a graphics card, the target market is certainly not the high-end gamer.
Pricing for the IL-80MV is not set, but it should debut at a lower price point than other Core ready desktop boards given the stripped-down nature of its feature set.
 News source: DailyTech
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11/05/2006 - Vista Might be too Complex for Microsoft - This is a great article. I encourage everyone to read the full story.
It will not have escaped your attention that Microsoft is laboring to finish the next version of its Windows operating system, Vista. A version aimed at the corporate market is supposed to be ready for Christmas, with the consumer edition following some time later (missing the Christmas market, which has irritated computer manufacturers and retailers more than somewhat). Last week, Gartner, a leading IT consultancy, predicted that Microsoft would miss those shipping dates.
'Microsoft's track record is clear: it consistently misses target dates for major operating system releases,' the firm wrote. 'We don't expect broad availability of Windows Vista until at least the second quarter of 2007, which is nine to 12 months after Beta 2.' Microsoft challenged this. A company spokesman told CNET News: 'We remain on track to deliver the final product to volume-license customers in November 2006 and to other businesses and consumers in January 2007.'
So there! The significant thing about Vista, however, is not the shipping date but the fact that it has been an unconscionable time in the making, subject to endless slippages (which have triggered major organizational changes within the company) and - when it eventually ships - will be just a shadow of the system envisaged when it was conceived. And while all this has been going on, Apple has released several major upgrades of its OS X operating system, and the programmers behind Open Source Linux have significant upgrades over the same period.
The difference between Microsoft and Apple can be largely explained by two factors. One is structural: Apple's OS X is based on Unix, which has a different architecture from Windows, and may be inherently easier to upgrade. The other is that Microsoft is a victim of its past monopolistic success: any new version of Windows has to be 'backwards compatible' with the thousands of programs and hardware devices built to work on earlier versions of the operating system. Apple has much less of a 'legacy' problem in this sense.
The really interesting comparison is with Linux, a product of comparable complexity developed by an independent, dispersed community of programmers who communicate mainly over the net. How come they can outperform a stupendously rich company that can afford to employ very smart people and give them all the resources they need?
Here's a possible answer: complexity. Modern operating systems are staggeringly complicated. In terms of the number of their components, and the richness of the interactions between them, they are far more complex than an Airbus or a jumbo jet.
News source: The full story
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11/05/2006 - Mobo Makers Confirm May Launch for Turion64 X2 and AM2 - The availability of AMD’s next-generation CPUs – the Turion 64 X2 mobile and Socket-AM2 processors – will still follow the chip vendor’s May schedule, according to unnamed motherboard makers that have recently received this confirmation from AMD, in response to speculation, on the part of some PC makers, that the schedule had been put back to June, on insufficient utilization and capacity concerns.
AMD will launch the Turion 64 X2 mobile platform on May 17 and AM2-compatible processors on May 23, as opposed to rumors of a June 6 launch for the desktop segment and an unspecified June date for the mobile CPU, according to sources at the motherboard makers.
However, sources at Taiwan DRAM makers indicated that mass production of DDR2 memory for AMD-based systems will begin some time in July or August, one to two months later than originally estimated.
News source: DigiTimes
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11/05/2006 - ICANN Chokes off .xxx Porn Registry - Plans for an area of the internet dedicated to pornography were killed last night in a vote by overseeing organization ICANN.
In a split 9-5 board decision, the organization acted ruthlessly, against its own previous position, in order to put an end to an increasingly difficult and controversial issue - the approval of a .xxx top-level domain.
The .xxx registry application has been the focus of enormous political pressure on ICANN for the past six months and was used at one point as a political football in a wider tussle for power within the internet. Despite everything that has been written and will continue to be written about the application however, two simple facts need to be recognized:
* 1. The US government, despite its constant denials, has been the driving force in preventing the .xxx registry from being approved thanks to a campaign of right-wing Christians with close links to the current administration.
* 2. The company behind .xxx, ICM Registry, has done all that has been asked of it in order to answer people's concerns, but has had its efforts ignored or misrepresented by those opposed to the registry.
The history of the .xxx domain has been long and incredibly complex, with its approval constantly delayed or stymied for increasingly untenable reasons. It has also exposed ICANN's flawed decision-making processes and revealed the hidden hand behind what is supposed to be an autonomous organization overseeing the internet. ICANN has had to decide against its own recommendations, and has been caught in a web of conflicting statements.
News source: The Register
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11/05/2006 - Microsoft's Phishing Filter for IE7 Clears Audit - A third-party audit of the new phishing filter built into the Internet Explorer 7 browser and the MSN Toolbar has given the technology a thumbs up on the sensitive issue of user privacy.
Jefferson Wells International, an IT auditing group, has validated Microsoft's assurances that the phishing filter does not transmit any personally identifiable information without explicit user consent and that any URL information sent from the user's browser cannot be traced back to the surfer's personal information.
The privacy thumbs up is a boost to Microsoft's mission to market IE 7 as a major security overhaul with features to thwart identity theft and drive-by spyware and Trojan installations. "We gave in-depth access to the technology and to the engineering team. After they studied the technology and interviewed the engineering team, they agreed that the claims we made about protecting your privacy are true and accurate," said Rob Franco, lead program manager for IE security at Microsoft.
The auditors confirmed that the phishing filter client only transmits URLs when the user wants to manually provide feedback on a URL, when the URL is not found in the Phishing Filter local data files, or when the phishing filter client heuristics determine a site as suspicious.
News source: eWeek via OSNN
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11/05/2006 - Free Microsoft Architect Connections Event - Bink has posted up a free Microsoft event to be held within the next month. What would a Microsoft event be without Neowin? If anyone plans to attend this and wants to cover it for Neowin, please send me a PM or email me (details in my profile).
Please join us for the first annual Microsoft Architect Connections event, “Enabling the Service Oriented Enterprise,” to be held at The Omni Los Angeles at California Plaza. The Conference will provide you and other architects with an opportunity to gain insight into Microsoft’s Service Oriented Architecture strategy. The service orientation model presents both unlimited benefits and challenges to the Service Provider and Media and Entertainment industries, and this event will feature best practices and guidance delivered by Microsoft and industry speakers, analysts and colleagues. All content will be tailored to meet the needs of following industries: telecommunications, cable, satellite, network equipment providers, hosting partners, advertising, publishing, broadcast, and entertainment.
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11/05/2006 - Users Report Glitches With Microsoft's Flash Patch - Microsoft plans to begin patching more than its own software, its first effort got off to a rocky start. By Wednesday, Windows users were complaining of glitches in updating Adobe's Flash Player through the Windows Update service.
Microsoft took the unusual step Tuesday of feeding an updated edition of Flash Player to Windows XP, Windows 98, and Windows Millennium users. It was the first time the Redmond, Wash. developer took an active role in pushing a third-party product update to users.
Even a member of Microsoft's Security Response Center's team noted the shift. "I've been in the MSRC now for a while, seen a lot of 'interesting' things happen around here and it is a bit of a trip to look at our list of bulletins we shipped today and see the words Flash, Adobe, and Macromedia in the titles," said Craig Gehre, the release manager for MSRC. "Different to say the least."
That was the reaction of users on a Microsoft support newsgroup, but not in a good way.
View: Information Week
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11/05/2006 - MPAA training police dogs to sniff out DVDs - Thanks davemania for linking this story in our Back Page News section of the forums.
The Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), express delivery company FedEx and HM Revenue & Customs, has joined forces to launch an exciting new initiative to help combat DVD piracy.
As part of a project promoted by the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA), FACT instigated the training of two black Labradors named Lucky and Flo by one of the world's leading experts in the field whose other clients include police, fire and rescue service. The dogs were trained over an eight month period to identify DVDs that may be located in boxes, envelopes or other packaging, as well as discs concealed amongst other goods which could be sold illegally in the UK. These DVDs are often smuggled by criminal networks involved in large scale piracy operations from around the world."
View: Full Article @ Space Grinder
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11/05/2006 - A 4.1 GHz Dual Core at $130 - Can it be True? - Toms Hardware has posted a very interesting article on how a $130 intel CPU can easily blow away the more expensive CPU offerings from both AMD and Intel. Thanks to TheBigB for posting this in Back Page News on our forums.
Snip: There are still some situations in life that are guaranteed to put a grin on anyone's face, even hard-boiled technical skeptics like us. This particular story borders on being a sensation unmatched in our last eight years of hardware reviews. The news, for those who just can't stand the wait any more, is this: Intel has offered a budget Pentium as part of its processor line-up for a little while now. With a simple modification, however, this CPU can outperform every top-of-the-line processor around.
View: The Full Article @ Toms Hardware
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