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Core 2 Reviews All Around the Web
NerdMaster writes "NDA for Intel Core 2 CPUs was lifted on the night from yesterday to today and all major hardware reviewing websites are posting Core 2 Duo E6700 and Core 2 Xtreme X6800 reviews. Here is a collection of several reviews so you can check for yourself whether Core 2 Duo is faster or not than Athlon 64 X2. Reviews posted at Tom's Hardware Guide, AnandTech, HEXUS, Hardware Secrets, OCAU, TweakTown, HotHardware, The Tech Report, Trusted Reviews, Legion Hardware, bit-tech, ExtremeTech, Legit Reviews, Sharky Extreme, HardOCP, PC Perspective, GotFrag Hardware, Gamepyre, X-bit Labs - Part 1, tbreak, neoseeker and Byte Sector." We've already touched on this technology, but there has been (obviously) a lot of discussion about it since it was announced.
From anandtech's article:
However, if all goes well, although Vista may be delayed until 2007, Intel's Core 2 processors will give you a very good reason to upgrade this year.
As impressive as the Intel fanboys make these processors out to be, we are all going to continue to suffer from the same paradigm - faster hardware means software gets more bloated. Seriously folks, how many thousands of dollars have we all spent on new computer hardware only to have it slowed down again by bigger bloatware from MS? Why is Vista so much better than XP? Why was XP any better than Win2k? Why was Win2k any better than Win98SE? What did Win95 give us that was so revolutionary besides the ability to keenly mis-detect hardware? To me, the progression of windows has only been to add more and more eye candy.... I haven't seen that much more _useful_ functionality added to windows since 3.1 (which I still use on my 486-100Mhz machine, which by the way accomplishes all of my office, web browsing, and other day to day needs just fine)...
And if AMD is crushed out of existance becuase Intel abuses their Monopoly position, leading to 2000$ processors, hey, that's Capitalism, right?
Sometimes, it's not just about you.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.