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Hey everyone! Thanks to all of you're great support, we have decided to vastly upgrade atomicmanifesto! We now have a permanent home at Atomicmanifesto.Com This is a huge upgrade, and may take some time to work out all of the kinks, but it will be terrific in the long run! Thank you for all you're support and staying with us!

Intel's up-and-coming Larrabee chip (effectively a huge mass of CPU cores being used in parallel like a GPU), will actually match the performance of a GTX285. Compared to their older offerings [and the meager performance of the Intel GMA integrated chips), such a performance for a first product is amazing. [Similar type of reaction toward's Intel SSD, the Intel X25-M). It will have 24/32 cores, depending on how good the silicon yield is, and be made on a 45nm manufacturing process. Also, the performance seems to increase linearly [scales near perfectly], with the number of cores.

The issue of Intel's "anti-competitive" pricing in Europe has been simmering for a while. The EU was conducting it's investigation, and concluded that Intel, indeed, was being anti-competitive, and was hurting the consumer. (Funny how the prices were actually getting lower, and the consumers were greatly benefitting. Big brother knows all, huh?) The allegations lie with Intel first offering a lower bundle price if they sold their products instead of AMD.

To reaffirm Steve Job's statement last year: “We don’t know how to build a sub-$500 computer that is not a piece of junk,” COO Tim Cook stated that Netbooks don't deserve the Mac brand. “When I look at netbooks, I see cracked keyboards, terrible software, junky hardware, very small screens,” he said. “It’s just not a good consumer experience and not something we would put the Mac brand on. It’s a segment we would not choose to play in.” Ironically, the backlash of the PC Community is quite funny. "Why not?