2nd April 2007 Archive

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• Ten Reasons why you should upgrade to Windows Vista

  In case you need persuading...

  Love it or hate it, you can't ignore Windows Vista. Fans of Apple's Mac OS X will tell you that all of the good bits of Vista have been blagged from the Tribe of Jobs but the fact remains that the vast majority of us use Windows XP so the question is simple, why the hell should we make the switch from Windows XP to Windows Vista …

  PCs 2 Apr 2007, 07:02

• EMI and Apple ditch DRM

  Updated All you need is 20p

  In a rumoured deal between Apple Inc and EMI, the Beatles could soon be available to download from iTunes free from copy protection limits. EMI whetted Beatles' fans appetites yesterday with an invite sent out to sections of the media announcing an "exciting new digital offering". Jobs has been loudly dissing DRM (digital …

  Media players 2 Apr 2007, 10:49

• Sapphire Radeon X1950 GT-based graphics card

  Review Cheaper than the X1950 Pro - but potentially as powerful?

  AMD launched the ATI Radeon X1950 Pro at the end of 2006, pitching it as a cut-down version of the X1950 XTX. It's now come up with a cheaper version, the X1950 GT, taking the technology below - well, just - the £100 mark. The Pro uses 12 of the 16 pixel processing pipelines - all in groups of four 'quads' - available in …

  Bits 'n' Chips 2 Apr 2007, 10:52

• Wii wins in US during February

  Big sales lead over rivals

  Nintendo's Wii outsold both the Xbox 360 and the Sony PlayStation 3 in the US during February, the latest sales stats coming out of North America shows. According to market watcher NPD, some 335,000 Wiis were sold in the US in February. Microsoft sold 228,000 Xbox 360s and Sony 127,000 PS3s. Nintendo was just 20,000 units …

  Consoles 2 Apr 2007, 11:10

• AMD RD790 gets PCI Express thumbs-up

  Unannounced chipset confirmed

  AMD's anticipated top-of-the-line chipset, the RD790, has won the approval of PCI Express overseer, the PCI SIG, for its compatibility with version 1.1 of the standard. The RD790 turned up on a leaked chipset roadmap last month. It's expected to appear this summer to support AMD's next-generation Athlon processors, all of …

  Bits 'n' Chips 2 Apr 2007, 11:32