Archive for November, 2004

AMD CPUs fastest for Half-Life 2

Thursday, November 25th, 2004
Xbit labs ran benchmarks measuring CPU speed in Half Life 2 demos. AMD CPUs came out ahead overall.

I find it somewhat staggering that the slowest CPUs were “3000″ series (i.e. as fast as a 3 GHz P4). Ye gads.

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Hybrids

Friday, November 19th, 2004
This isn’t really all that tech, but a lot of new Hybrid vehicles (Electric + gasoline) are hitting the market. The Ford Escape SUV seems pretty good and I test drove one, but the Toyota Highlander with 270H.P. (est.) that will be launched sometime around May looks like it might be the new standard to beat.

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