So far the only uses for the Cell Chip technology has been for research, and the PS3. However, at CES 08. Toshiba demoed the laptop on a modified Qosmio G45 laptop with a standard Intel Core 2 Duo, in addition to the cell chip with four 1.5GHz synergistic processing elements (SPE). They had four demos running, all were multi-tasking beasts. One was scanning movie files and using face recognition to detect all the faces within the movie file. It then created a thumbnails of each of them. You could then click on the faces, and watch all the clips that included that face.

We’re barely getting the 45nm Quad Core  generation into full swing and they’re already using the cellchip in consumer computers.

Microsoft’s upcoming Service Pack 3 for Windows XP, according to benchmarks, is going to be more then twice as fast as Vista with it’s new service pack.

Devil Mountain Software of Florida used it’s own OfficeBench software which runs a series of resource demanding tasks in different Microsoft Office applications , on two machines. One was running Windows XP with Service Pack 3, and the other, Vista Service Pack 1 (both in beta). Guess what? XP more than doubled the performance of Vista according to the performance graph below.

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It’s about time Microsoft owns up to a few of their many faults. Microsoft plans on rleasing a set of 3 updates that they say will cure many of the complaints they’re receiving about Vista. MS claims it will address some of the core issues such as performance, reliability, and the overall stability of the year old operating system.

Patch one will supposedly improve battery life on mobile devices, up the stability of wireless connections, and decrease the operating system’s response time following a period of idle or non-use.

Part two of the trio only pertains only to Vista Ultimate and Home Premium, and adresses the way Media Center interacts with the XBox 360 as an extension on the software.

Finally, a third patch changes the way Windows interacts with USB devices, specifically on waking the computer which Microsoft says causes 2% of crashes in Vista.

However, don’t expect these updates too soon. They’re due to be released along side Vista SP1 in the beginning of next year. But will us Ultimate users ever see our Ultimate Extras we paid so much extra for? I’d say MS is holding out on us, hoping we’d forget eventually, but something tells me we never will.

The Bay department store in Toronto features four massive screens attached to the sides of the multi-level building. What’s odd however, is they have been displaying the Blue Screen of Death for the past few days now. You’d think someone would turn these massive energy hogs off? Nah, leave them on. Afterall, look at the attention they’re getting. “All your memory are belong to dump”

Remember Apple’s Leopard OS X Mac system that’s coming out in mid-2007? If not, remember it here.

Well, AppleMac have released a taste-test before the main course - the Leopard Early Start Kit. Included is access to Apple’s Leopard Dev Team support, a test of its video and graphics capabilities, and Mail 3, the new program for stylish email coming out on the new operating system.

 This review will do a quick look-in to what AppleMac has to say about their lastest test drive, and again, we look into the sweet Apple taste-test, released by the company who made the first GUI in the world…

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So who are two people you thought you’d never see chattin’ it up and have what we call a blasty? Possibly Bill Gates and Steve Jobs? We thought we’d never get to see this awesome yet not too horrifically surprising get together. At a recent conference photos were snapped of Bill Gates having a great time chatting away with his biggest rival, Mac warlord Steve Jobs at the “All Things Digital” (held by the Wall Street Journal) conference near San Diego, California. And who’s on the other side of Bill? Me! (Actually not, unless you’re counting the dream I had of this the night before it happened). See the pictures below:

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According to the Wallstreet Journal’s unknown sources, Dell will begin shipping their personal computers with Windows Vista starting tonight. Newly purchased computers will arrive as early as Tuesday, the official release day of the new operating system.Who’s going to purchase though? I’m not too sure that this would be a good idea, considering the last windows launches that took months for the final major kinks to get rolled out. So will this affect Dell’s sales? I think so, but it could go either way. There’s the group who believe in Microsoft and possibly feel that they are safe (especially since the PS3 shipped, and still seemingly has no problems such as the XBox 360 fires…) and would gladly be one of those to jump the gun and boot it up right away. Others are skeptical and cautious, and plan on waiting for a few months before upgrading (or possibly for bootleg copies to appear, naughty naughty!).

I for one will wait to see what comes of the whole mess. Once I see it working on someone else’s machine, then I’ll get on the boat and purchase my own copy Read official story at The Wallstreet Journal. (Sorry, subscription required..)