But only for cut-down PCs
By Stewart Meagher Monday, 12 May 2008
VOLISH PLANS ARE AFOOT to make sure that, even the poorest people on the planet will also have to bow in supplication to the Mighty Bill and his Microsoft Megacorp. Obviously alarmed by the fact that someone came up with an altruistic way to get computers into the hands of the world's downtrodden and needy, and that those computers would not be running any Microsoft products at all, the Redmond Massive has thrown a spanner into the works by offering a chopped up version of Windows XP at 26 bucks a pop.
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Samsung DVD Claims 22X Recording
By PC World India staff May 11, 2008
Samsung India launched a DVD writer, which is claimed to be the industry's fastest writer with 22X recording capability. The new Super-WriteMaster SH-S223 is available in the Indian market. With over-speed recording, users can write at 22X speeds on 16X media and 12X speeds on 8X media. As lower speed media is more cost-effective, users can save money while burning discs at faster speeds. The SH-S223 drive provides blazing recording speeds across a gamut of different data media types including: 22X DVD±R recording, 12X DVD-RAM recording, 16X DVD+R Dual Layer recording, 12X DVD-R Dual Layer recording, 8X DVD+RW recording and 6X DVD-RW recording.
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Samsung India launched a DVD writer, which is claimed to be the industry's fastest writer with 22X recording capability. The new Super-WriteMaster SH-S223 is available in the Indian market. With over-speed recording, users can write at 22X speeds on 16X media and 12X speeds on 8X media. As lower speed media is more cost-effective, users can save money while burning discs at faster speeds. The SH-S223 drive provides blazing recording speeds across a gamut of different data media types including: 22X DVD±R recording, 12X DVD-RAM recording, 16X DVD+R Dual Layer recording, 12X DVD-R Dual Layer recording, 8X DVD+RW recording and 6X DVD-RW recording.
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Gaming Performance: Windows Vista SP1 vs. XP SP3
By Joel Durham Jr. May 12, 2008
Even as Microsoft tries to shove Windows Vista down the collective and unwilling throat of computer users worldwide, the company is still perfecting the well-aged and well-loved Windows XP. The latter of the two operating systems just received its third (and evidently last) service pack. The collection of fixes and improvements includes the vast majority of security and performance updates, patches, and other stuff released in the two plus years SP2 was released. It also includes a few new improvements. There's little in SP3 that the user will actually see; pretty much everything the service pack packs is background stuff. Of course, with the release of a new service pack comes a huge, pressing question: How does it compare to Windows Vista and its own recent update, Service Pack 1, in the game performance department? Vista, of course, has been plagued by criticism that games run on it don't perform as well as they do in Windows XP, even though most of the problems were due to early graphics drivers and have gradually been worked out.
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Even as Microsoft tries to shove Windows Vista down the collective and unwilling throat of computer users worldwide, the company is still perfecting the well-aged and well-loved Windows XP. The latter of the two operating systems just received its third (and evidently last) service pack. The collection of fixes and improvements includes the vast majority of security and performance updates, patches, and other stuff released in the two plus years SP2 was released. It also includes a few new improvements. There's little in SP3 that the user will actually see; pretty much everything the service pack packs is background stuff. Of course, with the release of a new service pack comes a huge, pressing question: How does it compare to Windows Vista and its own recent update, Service Pack 1, in the game performance department? Vista, of course, has been plagued by criticism that games run on it don't perform as well as they do in Windows XP, even though most of the problems were due to early graphics drivers and have gradually been worked out.
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