OCZ is already making cheap SSD drives, but now they are faster and have more capacity! They are called core 2 ( don’t confuse with Intel core 2) and are the second generation of OCZ’s SSD’s.

The first generation had a maximum of 128GB storage, with the second generation maximum storage is raised to 250GB. This is still not like 1TB HDD or so but you have to know they doubled the data storage in only a few months. For the original Hard disks they did years to reach 1TB.

Also the speeds increased. These SSD’s now have a read speed of ~170MB/s ( 1st generation had ~140MB/s) and a writing speed of ~98MB/s (1st generation had ~80MB/s). A good increase!

One thing for sure, within a few years SSD’s may become mainstream. They will have the same data capacities of a traditional hard disk, beter speeds and they will be cheaper… much cheaper.

We already heard a lot about new kernels in the next windows version ( search for MinWin or Midori) but Microsoft has confirmed that they won’t change the kernel for the next Windows version. Possible even not for the next 2 version after Windows 7. This is really bad news because Windows is still becoming a bigger and a bigger mess. I hope for them that their next versions are much more stabile then Vista.

As we have seen in the past with the versions, they become much heavier (refers in good hardware needs). Because of this I don’t think the next versions will become better in hardware needs then the previous versions.

ATI can be really called like “The Red Devil” now! The new GPU-chipsets they made for the ATI Radeon HD 4850 and the HD 4870 are one of the best they have ever made. They perform very good and the price ATI asks for these cards are rediculous! You can already get a Radeon HD 4850 for like €150,00 and a HD 4870 for like €220,00.

But lets first talk about the performance these cards offer four your money. Well I saw many benchmarks and it’s really amazing ATI has done this! The HD 4850 can beat the Nvidia 9800GTX and sometimes go to the performance an Nvidia GTX 260 offers. And the HD 4870 comes even very close to a Nvidia GTX 280.

And the funny thing is: The Nvidia cards cost a lot more.

Reviews: I’ll give you 2 links to a very reliable review from the 4850 and the 4870, as I didn’t do any myself. So deceide who’s the best!

ATI Radeon HD 4850:link 4850

ATI Radeon HD 4870:link 4870

Nvidia already responded to the agressive price/performance setting from ATI and lowered the prices for their current graphics cards, but the Nvidia cards are still to high in price compared to the ATI cards!!

So if you buy a new computer now you would be completly insane to buy a Nvidia card!

Just buy that ATI, they outperformed those Nvidia’s and the HD 4850 or HD 4870 is just waiting for you to be bought!

Tegra is the new computer-on-a-chip from Nvidia. It’s very very small, consumes only 1 watt (with the full board) so it can fit in an ultrapotrable thing right away.

Link for all the info
As you can see on the pictures from TG Daily the Tegra board is much more smaller then the Atom board.

Well I’m possitive about these kind of innovations and especially now Nvidia has made it’s first multifunctional cpu!

In a press conference in Boedapest (Hungary) Steve Ballmer ( Microsoft Boss) got some eggs after his belly. The face of Ballmer when he come’s from behind his desk is Hillarious!!! And to the guy who threw: Why didn’t you hit him. Ballmer is so big.

This is the real, good quality video.

video of Ballmer and the eggs

If you want some more funny videos: search for Steve Ballmer in youtube!

Everywhere you look on the internet you will read something about the Iphone. Well honestly I wanted to buy one too. But not anymore. I wanted to buy an ultraportable device to surf on the internet with my WiFi connection. Well the Iphone is so expensive that I would better buy a simple laptop like the HP 530. More stuff on the 530 for the cash. The 530 is not that ultraportable like the Iphone but I don’t care a shit. As long as I can cary it with one hand, it’s portable to me.

Seriously, can’t they make something small AND cheap. Every ultraportable device has a high price. Ever watched at the prices of an MID (mobile internet device). The OQO 2 is an MID that cost something around the € 2000. Well almost every MID has prices ranging from €700-€2000 or more. Crazy isn’t it! You can buy a whole new Fast and Powerfull gaming pc with € 2000 euro. If you buy that OQO 2 you get a piece of shit for something that’s as big as your hand. And Vista is on it… Sigh*

Other stuff like smartphones are kinda cheap but still it’s crap. Small screen, slow hardware and what software do you get?

I think I’m better of with a very cheap laptop like the HP 530 (good enough to surf the web and do simple stuff).

This question still keeps me busy. But I think I might choose for a ps3. But why should I? Well a ps3 will have a longer life than some pc-parts. If you want a gaming pc you know you have to renew your graphics card many times when you want to play the latest games. Also if you have to renew your graphics card you will mostly have to renew your MoBo (motherboard) and some other parts because they’re not compatible anymore. And thats too bad for a pc. I don’t like to buy new parts all the time just to play a good game. So this time I go for a console and it will be a PS3. A PS3 is also more portable than a pc. When it’s hot I want to game outside. A PS3 also offers some extra features like a browser, very handy when you want to look up something. But that’s not the only thing why I would choose a PS3

I still have a PS1, it’ll be 11 years old in november and it still works. Amazing! That’s why I would choose for playstation, because of the good experiences with it.

So, what’s your oppinion? A PS3 or a gaming computer?

Computers have still to boot these days and this takes some time. But scientists have finally created the memristor (memory resistor) after years of development. This little piece of hardware first couldn’t be created because it would be way to big to fit in a normal desktop computer and the idea of the memristor couldn’t be made true. But now we have something thats called nanotechnology and because of this the memristor is created.

What does the memristor do?

If you shut down your computer everything is stored on your HDD (Hard Disk Drive) and everytime you boot your computer all the data has to be read from the HDD. The memristor has the ability to store data and read it right away if you push the start button of your computer. Because of this you dont have to boot anymore.

But this technology is still making its first steps, so it will take some time before we would use it in our computers!

Anyway I’m already waiting to use it!

This article is not about a window but about windows, actually windows vista. Or is it CRAPsta??

Well for me it’s CRAPsta for sure. I’m still using windows XP because I want to avoid the step to vista as long as possible, maybe never! I’m using XP because I like to game. And if wine/Linux would fully support games I would kick XP of this machine too.

What’s so crappy about vista ?

Well it’s the biggest OS in data for ages. It’s amazing how Microsoft could have made this OS that’s 10GB big, even bigger. It’s also slow as a snail. What would be the best OS ever according to microsoft before the launch of vista, turned to be the most sucky one.

Thats just Incredible! A enormous team of employees, enormous amount of money and they make this crap.

What do I want?

1) An OS thats much faster than vista.

2) An OS that doesn’t eat all the hardware.

3) Simple design: who needs a glass looking desktop? Trust me nobody needs a fancy OS!

4) The OS Must be simple to use.

5) Much cheaper: more people would buy it if it would cost less and the piracy would dissapear a bit.

And the rest, I can’t think of anything more because I’m to depressed writing this article.

The only thing I hope is that microsoft would open it’s eyes or that Linux would get a total game support!!

I’m counting more on the second one because Linux is innovating the whole time. I worked with linux and it felt very good. I didn’t miss windows until I got addicted to gaming again.

One thing I’m sure of: If i have enough money I’ll buy a gaming computer with windows and a 2nd computer running Linux!

Most of you know in what situation AMD was. Nothing was going like it should go and the new cpu’s were heavily delayed. AMD thought that a native quad-core was better then 2 dual-core’s in 1. But AMD didn’t know that making a native quad-core was harder then putting 2 dual-core’s togheter. Intel used this method, putting 2 dual-core’s togheter to get a fully functional quad-core. And it worked for Intel! They got a huge profit while AMD sunk into their problems.

The cpu’s from AMD also had the so called ‘TLB-bug’ (Translation Lookaside Buffer) in the L3 cache. Because of the TLB-bug in the cpu’s, they couldn’t get higher then 2,5 GHz otherwise the system crashed. Luckily for them they solved the problem but it took a long time. Because of these problems AMD got many losses. But now they are restoring. Luckily for them and for us!!

If AMD would fail we would also get a big problem. Intel would have a monopoly on the cpu market. This means the prices wouldn’t drop as fast as they do now. AMD offers cheap cpu’s (a bit less performance then Intel) so Intel has to follow this strategy or they get losses.

About the performance: If you look to benchmarks you will see that Intel cpu’s will always be a bit faster. But do you really need a cpu that complete’s something 10 seconds faster for a much higher price??? If you look to price/performance an AMD cpu is the best to get!

The only thing why I’m a bit scared to buy an AMD cpu is the TDP (Thermal Design Power) rating. The TDP ratings from the AMD quad-core’s are too high. If you want to buy a phenom you really need a good PSU (Power Supply Unit)!

Now AMD have solved all their problems and are changing this summer from 65nm to 45nm. Wich results in lower TDP, higher performance and more overclock abilities. And according to the cpu roadmap the future for AMD seems to be good and interesting.

I hope they succeed!