Posts by Chris Wood

ISPs turn blind eye to million-machine malware monster

Quarantining users seems like a good idea

Seems like some other UK ISPs are going down the quarantine route using a hardware solution:

http://www.streamshield.com/

SanDisk guns for iPod Nano with slim video viewer

Not a Nano beater then

If this had been the same price (£129) or cheaper than the iPod Nano then it might have stood a chance. As it is, a memory card slot and a radio aren't enough to justify the extra price.

I've just been looking at the new Nano in the Apple store, and I have to say I was impressed with both the size/shape of the device and the quality of the screen/interface (not so much with the iPod Classic though, the interface lag makes it basically unusable).

Better gadget battery-level readouts in pipeline

Good for devices with non-servicable batteries

I can see how this would be very useful in a device where the battery is never/rarely removed (say, an iPod or mobile phone), as the device would always have a good idea of the initial state of the battery.

It seems this innovation still wouldn't solve the annoyance of being told half-way through your Wii sports session that the Wiimote batteries you thought were full are in fact empty though. At least the readout would be slightly more accurate, but I assume the estimates would depend on the device knowing what type of AA battery (alkaline or otherwise) you'd popped in.

Nvidia 'G92' to debut 12 November?

Clearly 'plating' it safe

Typos aside, this sucks for the people who bought DX10 parts (8800s and the like) thinking they would run top of the range for the foreseeable future; now it looks like there will be DX10.1 parts with a load of extra features before the year is out.

I guess that's the price to be paid for keeping your rig up to date. At least those 8800s can manage DX9 games at a fair old pace.

Apple sells one in six US laptops

re: Vista's the problem

Actually, I'd hazard a guess that a fair proportion of those MacBooks end up with Vista (or XP) installed on them. Most of those laptops will come with 2GB of RAM in them at high FSB speeds which will run Vista easily.

The truth of the matter is, the latest revision of the MacBooks and MacBook Pro's represent good hardware design at a price comparable to similar laptops from Sony et al.

I'm not particularly a fan of Apple or Microsoft, I just don't think you can tell much about the OS-related motivations from hardware sales figures.