Neowin News Feed for: Yields

WinXP SP3 Yields Performance Gains Over Vista SP1 Again

Steven Parker — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:36:06 +0000

exo.blog has at the request of their members re-run the original OfficeBench test, this time with 2GB of RAM in the test system. Unfortunately the outcome is unchanged bar a 4% improvement on the previous... Read more...

Windows XP SP3 Yields Performance Gains Over Vista SP1

Steven Parker — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 13:12:25 +0000

After a disappointing showing by Windows Vista SP1 (see previous post), we were pleasantly surprised to discover that Windows XP Service Pack 3 (v.3244) delivers a measurable performance boost to this aging desktop OS. Testing... Read more...

YouTube yields to royal pressure

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 11 May 2007 09:29:49 +0000

YOUTUBE is likely to remove all video clips deemed insulting to Thailand's king, a government official said Thursday, paving the way to the ban on the website being lifted. The popular video-sharing site, owned by... Read more...

Breakthrough in Blue Lasers Yields 10X Write Times

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:46:39 +0000

Nichia Corporation of Japan has announced a new blue-violet laser that can fill up a 54GB double-layer disc at more than 10X record speed, compared to typical 2x and 4x Blu-ray/HD-DVD format disc recorders. In... Read more...

Low Yields to Stop x86-64 Processors from Becoming Popular

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:07:12 +0000

Thanks xStainDx...There are a lot of concerns in regards availability and pricing of AMD's next generation x86-64 processors these days. Since AMD has been postponing their code-named K8 aka Hammer CPUs for ages now, a... Read more...