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Two points of complaint:
1) Performance laptops. The Dell Vostro has an 8600M GT and costs half the price of the XMS 1300 ( I think it's called that).
2) The media centre article seemed a bit rushed. I realise there will be more to it now though, so I suppose that's just something to look forward to.
Great mag as usual aside from these 
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I really enjoyed the section on "modular" PC's... but was reminded of "Taligent" back in the last 1980's. It too showed promise as a modular system of software (kind of like Lego, if one believed the blurb) based around an agreed standard, to be used by one and all.
It wasn't Bill Gates who said "I want my fair share of the market: 100%", but it might just as well have been. If there's going to be a universally agreed standard for modular software (where, for example, you can take the parts of Wordperfect you like, and the parts of Ami Pro and the parts of Word... and mix and match the modules to make what YOU, the consumer, want) then there had to be a conference to agree that standard... and Microsoft would have to be invited to participate. Microsoft obfuscate, prevaricated.... strung things out as long as possible... the pulled out, (having successfully wrecked the proceedings) and, to absolutely nobody's amazement, they announced that they'd just put the finishing touches to a rival standard, called "Object Linking and Embedding". Pink - the codename for the promising looking new operating system was dead in the water. OLE wasn't like the (rather elegant) "Organ transplant" envisioned by Pink.. more like using plastic surgery to create Siamese twins.
Unless water has started running uphill since the 1980's, I fancy that this is the nature of the beast. In the IT field, co-operation on standards just isn't the order of the day.
Particularly where Microsoft or Intel (or both!) are concerned! But it would be nice... wouldn't it!
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