The News Review:
- Review: Intel’s New Quad-Core CPUs
- Dreaded Blue Screen of Death mars some Leopard installs
- ImT iPod Movie Converter
Review: Intel’s New Quad-Core CPUs
PC World – Oct 28, 2007
Both WorldBench scores would place right in the middle of our top five gaming PC chart though the GPU and hard-drive setup we used weren’t cutting-edge just close to it. As mentioned earlier none of the applications in the WorldBench 6 Beta 2 suite are optimized to take advantage of the new SSE4 (Streaming SIMD [Single Instruction Multiple Data] Extensions 4) instruction set and only a few WorldBench apps can take advantage of more than two cores. Intel’s own benchmark results released on ctober 28 as well as the demos we witnessed at the fall Developer Forum showed much larger performance gains with SSE4-optimized applications such as an HD-optimized DivX encoder.
Dreaded Blue Screen of Death mars some Leopard installs
Register – Oct 28, 2007
Some also had external disks or other peripherals attached when they pulled the trigger on the Leopard install. But plenty of people reporting problems swear they aren’t in either category. Incompatibilities with DIVX Application Support and Tiger’s RAID system may also be at play.
ImT iPod Movie Converter
PC World – Oct 28, 2007
It can convert video files of CUEAPECDAAVIMPEGWMVMVMP4RMRMVBDivXASFVB and 3GP etc to iPod. It can extract audio files from video files or movies to iPod mp3 directly. And the latest version supports creating a video from pictures and capturing multiple pictures from videos. It is easier to use and faster than ever:All properties and settings are displayed in the new interface and you can easily finish converting a file within a few clicks.