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Woah, who's this Jim character? No, not another newb. It is I, the illustrious J0rdan. I've decided to shed the nick I've been sporting for as long as I've been online. As you know I like to ramble on endlessly keep you all up-to-date. Hooz, myself and the rest of the 2CPU Crew have been busy of late: jockeying for products to review, playing with new ideas for site design, and even that real life stuff (tm).

We've got several product evaluations coming down the pipe over the next month(s). I've got the AOpen CRW1232A and DVD-1640 Pro (slot load baby!) optical drives installed in my main workstation at present and will be writing up evaluations over the next couple of weeks. Hooz has the MSI Master-S, and Tyan Thunder LE mainboards kicking around his casa, along with oodles of memory enroute from Corsair. Iwill has decided to hold off another two weeks on the DVD266-R so that I'll have a final product instead of a beta-level board. That should give you guys a much better idea of what that product and platform (DDR) might have to offer us (This isn't the time for an architectural debate, but we know the performance improvement isn't going to blow our socks off). I'm sure there are several things I'm forgetting, but this should be enough to wet that hardware appetite of yours.

Oh, we've also got this small RC5 thing going on... :-P

duke Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19

#8112 Posted on: 02/17/2005 08:58 PM The Register has posted a review of IBM's Thinkpad T42p. The T42p sports ATI's Mobility Fire GL T2 workstation graphics chip. What sets a workstation chip apart from standard graphics chips is its certification for use with certain high-end graphical design packages. So if you want a notebook to run a CAD package, or a 3D rendering application, you'll want one that has a graphics chip approved by the software vendor. That way, when you run a preview of that complicated scene that you've been working on for days, you know it will work. This really does look like a mobile workstation. You might want to take a look.

duke Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19

#8113 Posted on: 02/17/2005 09:38 PM Mozilla's Firefox has reached the 25 Million download plateau! A website by the name of spreadfirefox.com has the story. With a minimal set of tools

duke Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19

#8114 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:20 PM Mozilla's Firefox has reached the 25 Million download plateau! A website by the name of spreadfirefox.com has the story. With a minimal set of tools

Jim_ Administrator Posts: 3464 Joined: 2000-03-15

#8115 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:25 PM The guys over at SFFTech have posted a review of Iwill's ZMAXdp SFF. If I'm not mistaken, Hooz is running one of these units in the secret 2CPU.com underground test bunker. After previewing two "engineering samples" and now reviewing the final shipping product, we can confidently say that the ZMAXdp continues to amaze us. As you [url="http://www.2cpu.com"][size=1]2CPU.com[/url] - Because two are always better than one! [url="http://www.jimkirk.org"]jimkirk.org[/url] - Not a Myth any Longer. Just a Dad.[/size]

duke Administrator Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19

#8116 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:31 PM Mozilla's Firefox has reached the 25 Million download plateau! A website by the name of spreadfirefox.com has the story. With a minimal set of tools

Jim_ Administrator Posts: 3464 Joined: 2000-03-15

#8117 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:33 PM testing. [url="http://www.2cpu.com"][size=1]2CPU.com[/url] - Because two are always better than one! [url="http://www.jimkirk.org"]jimkirk.org[/url] - Not a Myth any Longer. Just a Dad.[/size]

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