I put out a Twitter plus Facebook post, telling the world I was looking for a podcast partner. I received quite a few responses, which made me realize that I need to be more specific about what I want to cover in a podcast and the kind of person I’d want to share a Skype connection with.
Here’s what I’m currently thinking about goals and structure.
Yeah, I’ve been slacking on this blog.
Actually, I’ve been busy with other writing projects, consumed with Mass Effect / Mass Effect 2 and brought low by a bronchial infection. The good news is that I’m coming out of my Bioware addiction and at the tail end of this combination of cold and sinus infection.
This is just a quick post to point towards a few articles. I recently wrapped up several big projects for Maximum PC, including extensive benchmarking of Nvidia’s new 480 GTX, a review of Sapphire’s take on AMD’s Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition and a roundup of Raw photo editors. Writing the article on editing raw images was great fun, but I’m not happy with the way it turned out. I waxed a little too enthusiastic, and got carried away writing it, so the fault was entirely mine — not the editors at MaxPC. That happens every now and then, if you write a lot. Not every article can be perfect, even when you have great editors. All you can do is learn from them and move on.
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I’ve been running the full release of Windows 7 since the RTM went up in August on TechNet, but today is the day that most users who are so inclined will pick up a copy of Windows 7 and attempt to install it.
Most of them will be successful. Windows 7 setup is remarkable forgiving, but some users will still have issues. Even I had a problem with one older laptop based on the original Core 2 Duo, in which Windows 7 installed fine, but the HD audio device refuses to work even though the driver reports itself as working normally.
Of course, there will be people who have issues, sometimes serious ones. That’s the nature of the PC.
I started writing about technology back in the mid-1990s, writing some of the first hardware reviews for gamers in the old Computer Gaming World. Over the years, one of the constants in the game business is the constant tussle between console gaming and PC gaming.
Consoles have an edge for several reasons. Marketing support and developer assistance from the console companies is one. But the big deal is the known, consistent platform. When a game console ships, it’s good for at least five years. It’s possible that the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 will last longer than five years. Having a consistent platform makes issue like debugging easier from the developer perspective. From the gamer perspective, persistent platform problems (eg, graphics and sound drivers) are not an issue.
PCs have had the edge in overall bleeding edge performance. At some point in the console life cycle, PC games often look substantially better in the eye candy department, and developers can do more stuff with a PC than they can with a console.
That dynamic seems to be shifting.
So my older daughter, Elizabeth, has been playing with this recently.
Dell Mini Inspiron -- Not Quite Free Yet
This is a Dell Mini Inspiron — a pretty typical Netbook, although the keyboard seems better than most netbooks. However, the touchpad has touch sensitive areas at the bottom of the trackpad, rather than physical buttons, for the left and right moust buttons.
But this isn’t a review. What’s interesting about this is how we acquired it.
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