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Nvidia calling out Intel on their “tactics”

More news on Nvidia and Intel, or should I say Intel vs Nvidia.

Nvidia is the world’s leading supplier of “discrete,” or standalone, graphics chips but takes a distant second place in overall market share to Intel, which supplies “integrated” graphics built into the chipsets that accompany all of its processors. Mercury Research estimates the total market for graphics chips, including integrated graphics, at almost $10 billion in 2009.

I think the competition is good, I mean what else can Nvidia do but take their prices down for their “stand-alone” video cards… I currently am using a Geforce 8800GT and love it, I know it has its limitations, so I am always looking for the next best thing. AMD or Nvidia, personally I like them both, whomever gives me the best bang for my dollar wins!

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Windows 7 Release Date

Microsoft announced that it will launch Windows 7, on Oct. 22.

Aside from the obvious desktop deployments, Windows 7 will also be ported onto netbooks.  Microsoft reall needs Windows 7 to be a hit, and be on as many PC’s as possible. I for one love Windows 7, I have it running at home flawlessly. My favorite feature is the rotating wallpapers

Windows 7 will also work much better in the enterprise because of its rumoured backwards compatibility, for applications, with Windows XP Applications.

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