HP doesn’t buy Intel/Microsoft hype
ZDnet reports that HP has stepped up and called Intel and Microsoft out.
Intel’s latest technology buzzword “Turbo Memory” is an extra 1GB of memory added onto the latest Centrino line of laptop motherboards. This memory is split into two 512MB partitions of space and used by Microsoft Vista to improve read/write access to hard drives and often used data that would normally be stored in RAM.
So what’s the rub? Intel is charging $50(US) more for this 1GB of storage. And add to the fact that it’s a Vista only technology. Linux and XP users are stuck paying for more crap they won’t use (or frankly – don’t need).
HP has gone on record by stating that a user can spend $5 on a 1GB SD Card or thumb drive and get the exact same performance. They also found, unsurprisingly, that if they add an additional 1GB of RAM to the system (at a similar cost to intel’s cost of Turbo Memory) – they exceed the performance of a unit without the extra ram and 1GB of readyboost.
I, for one, applaud HP for sticking up for its customers or at least saving them a few bucks on this wishy washy technology – unlike Acer, Dell, and Toshiba have already drank the kool-aid.
Do Microsoft’s EULAs have any real legal basis?
An interesting commentary about the way Microsoft’s contract is given to you after the sale of the product, which is in clear violation of Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999. So do these long winded EULA’s have any real binding?
Palm distances itself from Windows
Palm distances itself from Windows with its upcoming newest operating system based on Linux. I, for one, welcome this change – because I experience the gracefulness and stability of Windows Mobile every day… I seriously could not recommend the Treo’s from Palm that run Windows. There’s nothing more frustrating than getting home or in the office to a message “why didn’t you answer your cell phone?” And find it locked up, frozen, or just plain unresponsive.
One saving grace – it doesn’t rely on the RIM network for email.
