My dad just bought an iPod Mini...

[Asher]

Originally posted by MarkG
but if you get the 4-5 who control the market you dont need the rest
(actually MS also has most of the rest in exclusive contracts as well)

If that was true, AMD wouldn't exist.

[Atahualpa]

Originally posted by Asher
Via

After they screwed up with AMD motherboards, they are to try again in the CPU market
Read: VIA K8T890 incompatible with Athlon64 X2 Dual Core CPU
So you can consider between PCI-X (K8T890) or AGP (K8T800) and Dual Core (K8T800) or Single Core (K8T890).. makes sense

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
Any corporation, given the opportunity, would try to monopolize a market and impose DRM

No, only contents companies do.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Atahualpa

After they screwed up with AMD motherboards, they are to try again in the CPU market
Read: VIA K8T890 incompatible with Athlon64 X2 Dual Core CPU
So you can consider between PCI-X (K8T890) or AGP (K8T800) and Dual Core (K8T800) or Single Core (K8T890).. makes sense

It's not a joke, they make low-power x86 processors...they bought Cyrix.

http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/

[Atahualpa]

Yes I know that... but what are you trying to say? That they are competitor to Intel?

[Asher]

They are in the embedded systems/ultra low power market. They're more of a direct competitor to AMD, who is going for "x86 everywhere", including embedded system.

Intel uses a different ISA for embedded systems.

[Verto]

When do you use your MP3 player? I'd have given anything to have bought one before I went to Germany, but now that I'm back I don't know if I'd listen to it often enough to justify having it. At home, I have a stereo and my comp. It would be handy in my car, but other than that, I don't think I'd use it.

[Asher]

I use mine at the gym, while on walks/jogs, in the car (I drive 1.5h to Waterloo and back twice each week, for instance), and at work sometimes.