I haven’t been posting in a while, so a few things that have happened in the past week which I found umm… interesting.
#1 –> HARD DRIVES ARE FREAKING CHEAP .. Everyone now has hard drives well under $1/GB … some places are as low as $0.75/GB (after rebate) — YIKES … just to compare, 10 years ago, a 250MB Maxtor HD cost ~$340 .. $1.36/MB .. that would be $1360/GB…. so instead of a $60 80GB drive, back then (if it was possible) it would be a $108,800 drive. hehe.. isn’t advancement in technology kool?!
#2 — mobile processor wars .. Intel released its Centrino chips .. AMD released its Athlon XP-M Processors … still too soon to tell who has the edge .. I think its Intel.. not quite sure.. in anycase, consumers benefit (as always) –> faster, smaller, cheaper and longer battery life.. i’m not complaining.
#3 — server processor wars .. AMD is still set to release its Opetron processor on April 22. move over Intel, I think AMD is about to dominate in the highend workstation/low-mid server sector over the next year or so. time will tell.
#4 — Knoppix 3.2 is out .. new features include KDE 3.1 (hurray!), ability to save /home directory to a usb keychain, hard drive or other device (great for computing on the go.. pop in Knoppix, pop in your USB storage device and your up and running..)
#5 — Apple finally ships the 17-inch PowerBook .. hmm.. hurray .. now you too can tote your desktop with you .. no thanks. I’ll go for a 12″ PB ..
#6 — NCSA Mosaic was first released 10 years ago on March 14.. This was the first true web browser that was the catalyst for causing the explosive growth on the Internet.
#7 — Mozilla.org released Mozilla 1.3 … a handful of new features .. nothing that made me get all excited and tingly .. but needless to say, for those of you out there that use Mozilla, go ahead and grab the latest copy @ mozilla.org
#8 — GM pulled the plug on the EV1, its all electric car … when released it was said to “define the GM of the future” .. oh well .. so much for future .. but atleast we still have the hybrid cars (gas/electric) … Perhaps hydrogen cars will be next to test the market?
