* Posts by Jason.Cole

5 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Oct 2011

Microsoft to announce new Office version on Monday

Jason.Cole

Isn't this the release where they have to meet the DIS29500 ISO standard? And if they fail, the standard gets thrown out (or something)?

Build a bonkers hi-fi

Jason.Cole
FAIL

Imerge, really?

Really, you would choose the Imerge MS1-3D, over a Kaleidescape home theatre? The Imerge system can't play blu-rays without either you manually ripping them to ISOs (Illegally in many countries), or you getting out a disk, while the Kaleidescape Vaults can hold 320 Blu-rays for playback.

Ten... freeware gems for new PCs

Jason.Cole
Go

Terra copy

it is a replacement for the file copy dialogue. It will queue up multiple copy/move jobs, instead of running them all at once. It has a reasonable estimate of how long it will take to work, and it can check hashes too.

Blue Coat owns up to Syrian Web-blocking

Jason.Cole
Big Brother

Blame manufacturer for having their stuff stolen?

So, Blue Coat's hardware was not sold to Syria, but the gear ended up in Syrian Government hands? Sounds like their gear got stolen, or sold illegally.

AMD Llano vs Intel Sandy Bridge

Jason.Cole
Boffin

Please Test More

If you look at the full results, the AMD crushes intel in 3Dmark11. Also, why use 3dmark, instead of testing TF2, Quake4 and Unreal3 (the rendering engines used for almost everything)?

I would also like to see power draw during tests, battery life tests (since the Intel w/ the radeon should burn power pretty hard compared to the AMD). For battery life tests, I would in particular like a test of how long it can play TF2 wirelessly (using the same mouse and graphics settings), until it dies, browsing the web wirelessly w/ word open until it dies, with wifi off, how long can it go through star wars with speakers at the same level for both, and how long each can sleep until it perishes (extrapolate this one).

The price difference is pretty brutal (25%). I would expect nearly-identical price units to be compared.