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...Draves ’85, now a research area manager at Microsoft, remembers, “There were these rooms of terminals in the basement of the Science Center.” The central machine was a VAX 11/780. “It was not a very fast processor,” Draves recalls, “and [at any given time] it was being shared among about 50 students...
Search is facing the same problem as the chip business. Intel (INTC) and AMD (AMD) make semiconductors that are so powerful, very few PC buyers can use all of their computational power. A lot of what the chips can do is wasted. Upgrading to a more powerful processor does not mean much to people who cannot tell the difference. That leaves a few corporations and people who play complex video games as the only discriminating buyers of PCs with ultra-powerful processors. Just three or four years ago, the difference between one generation of semiconductor and another meant something...
...Asus Eee PC 1000HE Taiwanese tech titan Asus has mastered the art of making teensy, high-performance PCs. The 1000HE ($530) has a zippier processor than its rivals (making for smooth HD video playback) and a 9.5-hour battery. But that all adds bulk - at 3.2 lb (1.5 kg), it's one of the heaviest netbooks around. www.asus.com...
...stock market is not so much a news processor as a leading economic indicator, and today's loss notwithstanding, big investors may be betting on better news around the corner. "If you believe as I do that we'll be coming out of recession by year end, then this is about the time you would expect to see the start of a cyclical bull market," says Stephen Leuthold, president of Leuthold Group in Minneapolis, a firm with $5 billion in assets. Leuthold has studied stock markets and recessions going back to 1860. "We found that in all but two instances...
...other factor that is undermining PC sales is that they are too well built. A typical Intel processor that is two years old has more power than almost anyone needs. Laptops made two years ago were light and had impressive battery life. The screen resolution from most machines bought in 2006 is fine for watching online videos or DVDs. And, PCs used to come with Window XP, which is still preferred to the current Microsoft product, Vista...