Simon of MGON sent me an email requesting that we post his Home Edition review, well since this is one of the first I thought hell! why not!
Snip fom the review: It has been touted as the biggest revolution since Windows 95 and Microsoft are throwing all their marketing muscle behind this one. Is Windows XP a fly by nighter or will it live long into the future on peoples hard drives? Microsoft is hoping the latter of course. MGON has had the privilege to be able to test the Beta 2 (Build 2462) and Release Candidate 1 (2505) which we are sure most of you have perused over the past few months. So what’s different well not much which is a good thing as it shows the operating system has even been stable during beta testing. The forecast for Windows XP is good ….
As you probably have noticed by now the previews were done on the Professional builds of XP and this review is on home. The reason why professional was used is that no external beta code of Home was released except for the actual Microsoft beta testers.
View: Windows XP Home Edition: The Review
Snip fom the review: It has been touted as the biggest revolution since Windows 95 and Microsoft are throwing all their marketing muscle behind this one. Is Windows XP a fly by nighter or will it live long into the future on peoples hard drives? Microsoft is hoping the latter of course. MGON has had the privilege to be able to test the Beta 2 (Build 2462) and Release Candidate 1 (2505) which we are sure most of you have perused over the past few months. So what’s different well not much which is a good thing as it shows the operating system has even been stable during beta testing. The forecast for Windows XP is good ….
As you probably have noticed by now the previews were done on the Professional builds of XP and this review is on home. The reason why professional was used is that no external beta code of Home was released except for the actual Microsoft beta testers.
View: Windows XP Home Edition: The Review
"The problem right now is Intel is getting some momentum back with their 2 gigahertz Pentium 4 chip," said Needham & Co. analyst Dan Scovel. "They stole the crown back after a six-month hiatus."
AMD has been, for several months now, stressing to reporters and analysts that the clock speed of a microprocessor, the brains of PC, is not the last word on overall performance. There are benchmark tests that have been done showing AMD's Athlon -- running at a slower clock speed -- outperforms Intel's Pentium 4 chip on certain tasks.
Some wonder, though, whether it's too little too late.
"If you're going to get serious about weighing price performance, I think it's a valid point that AMD is making," Scovel said. "But beating the drum at this point is kind of like closing the door after the horse has left the barn."
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