Comments on the techworld

There have been so many things that happened in the tech world since the last time that I wrote a post here in my blog. Well I will try to cover them all with this article (hopefully). First of, Intel has just unveiled their brand new top of the line processors, I have been seeing so many reviews regarding this new chip but basically they are all saying that it is fast; even beating the hell out of AMD’s top of the line processors. I guess the ball is now passed to the AMD camp this time (and I think it will stay for some time there). Later in the week, AMD has announced that they will be cutting off about 57% of their high-end chip’s price (sweet!), this is just the thing that I expect AMD would do. And as if launching their new chip is not enough Intel also countered AMD’s move to cut prices in more than half Intel too cut their chips prices too (too bad Core Duo is not one of them though hehe…). As for this event, I think although Core DUO of Intel may be very good and fast and all that, I think it will still take some time before they realize the money coming back in their accounts again. Why is this so? Well consumers do get tired of keeping up with the ever advancing technology. But I do think this will somewhat hurt AMD’s gaming market share. The new chips from Intel has the power but the real question is will regular consumers feel the need to buy these new chips as soon as they hit stores world wide? I don’t think so.

 

Speaking of the Intel-AMD rivalry, AMD has just announced that they are buying ATI, on of the leading Video card chip maker. Now, this is interesting. I wonder if Intel will in return buy NVIDIA just to keep up with AMD’s strategy. As to how this deal between ATI and AMD will affect users is still not that clear though. But I do think it will still benefit the consumers at the end.

 

On the software side of the news, Mozilla has released their Firefox 2.0 beta. And because I’m one big fan of Firefox I downloaded this new version of the rapidly growing open-source Netscape based web-browser. There were not that much improvement that is visible once you launch the browser; I have read that most of the improvements made are under the hood. But there are some new innovations although very minor like the built-in session restore and the Opera type tabs (one that has the close buttons in the tabs rather than having only one on the side). One thing that I really like and I know that most bloggers will appreciate is the built-in spell checker, it works while you type in the textbox part of any webpage (cool! I bet Microsoft will also copy that idea…) it’s really continent to have such feature because it checks real-time too; although at first I thought this was the workings of MS office 2003, but it was one of the main innovations in Firefox.

 

For Microsoft, they have just unveiled their Anti-POD product, hmm… I have seen pictures of the Anti-POD and I must say it is Anti-POD it is certainly not pretty like the I-POD (period). As for Windows Vista, still no exact date on the world-wide release though, but knowing Microsoft they will try to keep the heat alive for

Vista

with some gimmick like releasing a certain number of copies of the said OS at the end of the year just to make some buzz for the new OS.