Tuesday, April 25, 2006

802.11N Products Reviewed

eWeek.com has a first run review of Linksys' 802.11N draft router. From what they have discovered, the draft run products seem to have problems with legacy network devices. There was also some concern regarding the range tests. According to the article the tests show promise, but the fact that they have only tested one product doesn't really show too much.

Netgear has a draft product out that eWeek couldn't get their hands on, lets hope that performs better or else the move to 'N' maybe a step backwards. At least until the committee gets all the bugs worked out.

Read more here.

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Microsoft Ending Support for 98 & ME

Microsoft is finally ridding itself of its old children. The handy but now dated Windows 98 & 98 SE, and the absolutly awful Windows ME. Support officially end on the 11th of July. We have known this to be coming for a while now, but the time has finally arrived. Check out more here.

Thursday, April 06, 2006

Apple Releases "Boot Camp"

Apple has helped facilitate its hardware customers in installing Windows on their new Intel Macs. They released a new boot loader called boot camp that will allow the user to choose which OS they want to boot. Check out more here.