My Ramblings and experiments

SiS confirms Socket AM2 chipsets to ship Q2 | Reg Hardware

SiS confirms Socket AM2 chipsets to ship Q2 | Reg Hardware

SiS has let the cat out of the bag. Yesterday, it announced half a dozen chipsets all of which will support AMD’s Socket AM2 microprocessors – none of which have yet been formally introduced by the chip maker – which will ship in Q2, SiS said.

SiS’ AM2 line-up includes two desktop parts and four mobile chipsets, with one discrete offering in each category. The company said the chipsets would support AMD’s Athlon 64 X2, Athlon 64 FX, Athlon 64, Sempron and Opteron processors.

I have been impressed with SiS lately, lets hope they can still deliver unlike 5 or so years ago when you heard SiS you wanted to kill something

MS: Halo 2 for PC a Windows Vista 'exclusive' | Reg Hardware

MS: Halo 2 for PC a Windows Vista ‘exclusive’ | Reg Hardware

Microsoft looked to Bungie’s Halo to sell its Xbox console, and it’s now planning to see if the same trick will persuade gamers to upgrade to Windows Vista. Yes, Halo 2, which shipped for Xbox over a year ago, is coming to the PC but you’ll need Microsoft’s next major operating system release to run it. The game will not run on Windows XP, Bungie admitted this week. It will run “exclusively” on Vista.

Bungie maintains the scheme is “absolutely not” motivated by a desire to drive consumers to Vista, despite going to great lengths in its announcement to stress just how good the new OS will be for them. No, it’s all about getting the best quality experience.

Well I do plan on getting Vindows Wista (If you don’t get it you need to watch the CES shows done by dl.tv & ZiffDavis) anyway but what about those poor bastards that cant run it.

IOL: SpaceShipOne opens new space-tourism frontier

IOL: SpaceShipOne opens new space-tourism frontier

Mojave – The world’s first private rocket ship blasted into space on Monday for the second time in five days, snatching a $10-million (about R60-million) prize and ushering in a new era of space tourism.

In a flawless mission, SpaceShipOne, piloted by former United States navy test pilot Brian Binnie, also smashed the sub-orbital flight altitude record, reaching 112km, judges announced.