Word: pentium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...growing need for a simple solution. By 2000, half of all homes that have PCs will have lots of PCs. Networking them saves money, since even the dumbest machine will be able to share files with the smartest. Or connect to a single printer. Or tap into the Pentium II in the home office and blast out over the Net on its 56K modem. In February 1999, Intel plans to start shipping a chip that will be built into both computers and peripherals, allowing them to network through the phone jacks in your house...
...need at least a Pentium-level PC running at 166 megahertz, plus a sound card, a CD-ROM drive and 2 gigabytes of free space. Storage is especially critical because the Marvel chews up 90 megabytes for each minute of video. Another hurdle: to install the Marvel card, you have to open the computer case, an experience I relish as much as home brain surgery. Truthfully, though, setup was pretty painless. I was in and out in less than 10 minutes...
...enough heat to trigger the disaster. Salvage crews have pulled up evidence of heat damage above the ceiling that straddles the cockpit and first-class cabin, which is where the heart of the in-flight-entertainment system was housed. Each unit uses Microsoft Windows NT software, with a powerful Pentium processor at each seat wired to a central computer. These wires, pulled out of the Atlantic, also had been damaged by high temperatures. Investigators found that the wires had been connected to the same electrical pathway that powers vital aircraft functions, rather than the one that feeds nonessential devices, which...
Slightly bigger screens, more capacious hard drives and extra RAM account for the price difference between models. The top of the i line, the ThinkPad 1720, is the only one powered by a Pentium II chip rather than the more declasse Pentium I. I spent last week getting to know the mid-priced model, the ThinkPad...
That notion--of personalized content and advertising--has been a kind of Internet holy grail for years. Now, finally, the Web is delivering. Its tens of thousands of sites can match your needs and desires as quickly as your Pentium can get online. It's possible to get everything from custom newspapers to electronic newsletters that alert you to sales of items you've always craved. Futurists used to call these services "The Daily Me," a play on the idea of daily newspapers. But customized websites are delivering something more like "the instant me"--real-time collections of just...