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Firefox 3 Beta 2 Impressions: Awesome
ZDNet gave their impressions of the recently released Firefox 3 Beta 2 release and so far the comments are suggest the same thing: The memory and performance enhancements are awesome. Word on the street is that it’s snappy as hell, uses anywhere from 1/2 to 1/4 the memory Firefox 2 used, and is overall looking like [...]
Continue reading...Windows Vista SP1, Positive Impressions
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Well the tides are starting to turn… it seems hot on the heels of the public SP1 RC announcement, ZDNet is reporting some good things about SP1, including some nice network performance improvements (they claim 300% increase):
Continue reading...Windows XP SP3 Shows 10% Performance Gains
Saturday, November 24, 2007
No wonder Microsoft held XP SP3 release back so damn long, exo.blog benchmarked it using the OfficeBench benchmark and an XP Pro install with SP3 applied actually shows a 10% speed increase over it’s existing SP2 install. (Shorter bars better): That’s a pretty damning result following closely on the heals of Vista SP1 showing no performance improvements [...]
Continue reading...Memory Usage: Firefox 2 vs Firefox 3
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
We’ve covered some very interesting articles in the past about some of the work going into improving the memory usage of Firefox 3 as Firefox 2 is currently a fat pig. Well it looks like Adrian over at ZDNet took the new Firefox 3 Beta 1 release out for a test drive with some relatively subjective [...]
Continue reading...Windows Vista SP1 Performance a Bust
Monday, November 19, 2007
exo.blog did some testing of the Vista SP1 Release Candidate that was released recently and found the performance overall was almost completely unchanged between the RTM version and this SP1 version. So for the folks that sit and stare that that goddamn progress bar while Vista takes 4x longer to copy the images off your camera, [...]
Continue reading...New Samsung SSD: 100 MB/sec Write, 120 MB/sec Read
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
FastSilicon has the scoop on Samsung announcing their new ultra-fast, ultra-low energy 64GB SSDs (Solid State Drives). We have covered SSD development quite a bit in the past, including the sometimes lack-luster performance. It’s true that in some cases the drives can perform pretty phenomenally (0.1ms seek times for example) but some of the read/write numbers [...]
Continue reading...Sun Rewrites Java Plugin
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Grant Gochnauer sent in this kick-ass news; looks like Sun has completely rewritten the Java Browser Plugin as part of the new Consumer JRE work (now called Update N or something). The changes include: Improved scripting support (java/javascript integration is better) Improved reliability Supports more powerful applets (applets can ask for more memory) Better windows vista support (signed applets) Enterprise features [...]
Continue reading...Media Temple Performance Issues
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
First off let me apologize for the shit performance for the last week or so. Traffic has been going through the roof. I’m currently hosted on Media Temple using a (gs) account. Even though my bandwidth, disk usage and “GPU” usage is 1/10th of its maximum allotment the site has become totally unresponsive with standard load [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s Leopard Requires 867 mhz G4 or Higher
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Word on the street is the new Leopard OS (OS X 10.5) will require an 867 mhz G4 or higher to run and will not work on the original 800 mhz G4. Not too much news there for folks that use OS X… or computers… or have an Apple product. For the folks that are [...]
Continue reading...Mozilla Fixing Memory Leaks in Firefox 3
Friday, September 21, 2007
Grant Gochnauer sent this gem along, it looks like the Mozilla team is hard at work making Firefox 3 not suck as hard as Firefox 2 did when it came to memory usage. For those that don’t know, the longer you use Firefox, the more memory it leaks. It’s very common to have 1 tab [...]
Continue reading...Sandisk SSD vs Seagate HD
Friday, September 21, 2007
Grant Gochnauer sent along another cool benchmarking article showing how the Sandisk 32GB SSD (solid state drive) stacks up against a Seagate 160GB HD in a laptop. The bottom lines are: Read-speed is impressive and very consistent Write-speed is surprisingly disappointing Seek-speed and load times are insanely high (programs “instantly” load, Windows boots 9secs faster) Price is ridiculous for SSD [...]
Continue reading...How Important is Fast Memory?
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
You have heard this 1000 times: I am building a new gaming rig and want it to run crazy fast. Should I pay 2x the price for the super-fast gaming memory? The short answer is no. Take a look at some of the results of benchmarking the latest cutting edge DDR3-1800 memory from OCZ here. If you [...]
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
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