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Microsoft, Sony Clash Over Vista Turbo Memory
Anonymous writes "Sony is claiming that the current release of Vista does not support Intel's Turbo Memory technology, but Microsoft has dismissed the allegation. If Microsoft is telling the truth then all is well. But if Sony is right, Microsoft has opened itself to being sued for deceptive marketing practices."
There was a test recently in the german gamers magazine Gamestar, and they found that ''turbo memory'' did nios speed things up at all in a number of different set-ups they tested.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
"The issue is that the OS needs to learn what to load into the Robson memory in order to increase performance," Sony said."
It sounds to me like Microsoft may have implemented it poorly so it's a feature that doesn't really help.
How many people here are old enough to remember the transistor radio? I remember the big thing was to get a five transistor radio. That was a radio with five (5) transistors. And they had five too but if you looked you might see that one of the three leads on two of the transistors were cut.
Unscrupulous companies were putting five transistors into their radios so that they could advertise that feature but they were using two of them as simple diodes not as transistors. What you paid for was a five transistor radio but what you got was a in effect three transistor radio. You couldn't really sue because the unit had all five transistors, just some of them weren't being used as transistors.
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
When presidential candidates are debating about evolution you really must wonder how enlightened the masses really are.
Engineering is the art of compromise.