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Pentium D prices tipped to plunge
Talkback D if intel kept their prices lower more people might their stuff more often!
About: Pentium D prices tipped to plunge
[July 13, 2006, 13:16]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog It, it turned out, was a magic new chip architecture, bolted together like Frankenstein's monster from some bits of the Pentium 4's Netburst and some bits of the Pentium M. As such a thing has been on the cards since the Pentium M team said they...
[August 30, 2005, 13:55 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Red Hat Linux gets dual-core support
Talkback We bought cheap (desktop Pentium D dual core based) servers here at my company. Two of the servers would run Win2K3srv and they're doing just fine. Generally, even Windows XP boasts with multiprocessor support (including dual core I guess).
About: Red Hat Linux gets dual-core support
[December 12, 2005, 8:16]
AMD and Intel lock horns over virtualisation
Talkback Considering Intel VT already ships in all Core Duo and Pentium D (Presler 900 series) CPUs I don't get what you mean by "Intel says its VT technology is stable enough for testing and should be ready in 3 months" (or similar wording)
About: AMD and Intel lock horns over virtualisation
[February 7, 2006, 22:53]
IBM ThinkPad X22
Member Review At only 800MHz you may think it would be slow, but the Pentium IIIm is actually the same core as the Pentium-M Centrino, and is faster than you'd expect. The ThinkPad X22 is a pre-Centrino ultralight laptop.
[August 21, 2006, 14:44]
Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test
Talkback In fact, it was th PowerPC CPU that first broke the 300MHz barrier in 1997, totally pwning the Pentium. One can hardly describe recent IBM fabricated PowerPC chips as low performance, benchmarks show this.with the clear exclusion of the previous...
About: Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test
[November 11, 2005, 16:36]
Bright new future of multicore, circa 1994
Blog As the article says, in Deutchglish via the fine offices of Google translation, "For the "Visual Computing" and in a later version for High Performance Computing is thought Larrabee, a processor, which has so far received 16 to 24 seeds traded...
[July 9, 2008, 13:58 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
David's Alpine photo fail
Blog So, my first attempt to file the photos fell foul of the wonderful Pentium IV in the Ultra-Trail press office. Oh, and the PC was a Pentium III with no USB ports, never mind anything else. After Chamonix, where I'd been based, I went on to a little...
[September 2, 2008, 15:04 in News Blog by David Meyer]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog How different from the Pentium-II based portables that PC Magazine is reviewing at the moment. Far be it from me to foreshadow the results of the tests, but one reviewer was heard complaining loudly in the lifts that he'd been using one such laptop...
[April 11, 1998, 8:00 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog A Pentium. After the steak and mushroom pies are consumed, the investigation continues: wiping off the thermal grease reveals a 75MHz Pentium -- probably 1993/4 vintage -- in apparently perfect condition.
[March 26, 2002, 10:11 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It should work a lot faster than the Pentium, but a lot depends on the compiler technology that'll be used with it. The Pentium will be a long time dying. I never thought I'd be sitting in a bar in Heathrow and giggling about beer costing only two...
[December 20, 1997, 7:00 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Windows 7 RC Cracker Jack Surprise.
Blog Like a Pentium Core2 Duo mounted inside a DELL that had a Celeron sticker on the outside. I had the REAL drive partitioned into 2 sections, C was 25GB and D was 55GB. Wiped all the junk off the D drive I didn't need, all of it except the DELL...
[June 2, 2009, 1:17 in Reviews Blog by Xwindowsjunkie]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary - Holy Land Special
Blog So I'm not too surprised to see an enormous and very accurate 3D model of a Pentium seemingly floating in the lobby: fully four feet across and positioned at head height on a perspex stand, it glints in gold and silver and demands me to photograph...
[January 6, 2006, 17:40 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Intel set to unleash Multiply campaign
Talkback The Pentium chips were recalled because of a bug in the FDIV instruction, (floating point division), if this old-timer's memory serves. Division isn't quite the same thing as multiplication, but then you youngsters nowadays do GCSE maths rather...
About: Intel set to unleash Multiply campaign
[September 19, 2006, 13:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Last year, I was talking to an Intel bod about Banias -- now Pentium M -- and the fact that it was really rather good. So it goes as fast as a Pentium 4? So, why would anyone want a Pentium 4? But then, with the pace of processor innovation slowing...
[May 7, 2004, 18:10 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Vista is a good work.
Talkback CPU: Intel Pentium 4 NorthWood 2.0@2.6GHz In front of DOS-Based and NT-Based M$ operating systems, Vista is a g00d g00d g00d g00d work :D Vista is a good work. I see that in Beta1 and I have a low-end computer.
About: Gartner: Ignore Vista until 2008
[November 25, 2005, 18:26]
Apple Boot Camp (beta)
Talkback Also I think you need to point out the Dell Pentium D 940 is a Dual Core chip in it self with a large L2 cache, for some readers may have miss that point in your system configurations. I believe your test were skew in the Dell favor for these...
About: Apple Boot Camp (beta)
[April 10, 2006, 14:04]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary - Holy Land Special
Blog Before that, the place was responsible for the Pentium MMX and, in 2001, Timna. There is a classic ten minute hiatus while Intel's finest R&D managers are unable to work the video projector. No, I'd forgotten about that too, as Intel intended.
[January 6, 2006, 17:40 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Broken Windows Part 2
Blog The CPU is a 2.8 GHz Pentium D (one of the earlier Dual CPUs from Intel), video is a dual monitor NVidia DVI/Analog PCI Express card, and the networking is handled by 2 1Gbps Ethernet ports. Something happened to the XP Pro workstation at work in...
[March 23, 2009, 7:51 in Home Server Projects by Xwindowsjunkie]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Intel is a past master of moving functional blocks from one product to another, even across families: if you look at the MMX block in the XScale processor so equipped, you'd be hard put to see any differences with the MMX block in the Pentium.
[October 17, 2003, 16:25 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
