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Motorola MPx200

Heavyweights Motorola and Microsoft unite to produce the MPx200; a sleek, all-black clamshell smart phone. Read our Australian review.

March 15, 2004 by Jeremy Roche

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Athlon XP/2600+: workstation performance

The Data Explorer test in the brand-new Viewperf 7 Open GL benchmark places both Athlon XP processors well ahead of the 2.53GHz Pentium 4.

September 3, 2002 by Kai Schmerer

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Athlon XP/2600+: Internet performance

Page renderingThanks to new chipset updates and BIOS optimisations, the Pentium 4 is now faster at rendering HTML pages than the Athlon XP processors.The 2.

September 3, 2002 by Kai Schmerer

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Athlon XP/2600+: rendering and decoding performance

Despite the fact that 3D Studio Max 4.26 includes Pentium 4 optimisation, rendering of simple 3D objects (Kinetix Logo) with the 2.

September 3, 2002 by Kai Schmerer

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AMD released the Athlon XP/2600+ to market earlier than expected. This was urgently necessary, as the Intel architecture has been constantly improving, with faster PC1066 Rambus memory and a quicker 533MHz frontside bus.

September 3, 2002 by Kai Schmerer

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Athlon XP/2200+: rendering performance

Despite a new version 2.46 of 3D Studio Max that contains optimisations for the Pentium 4, the 2.

June 18, 2002 by Kai Schmerer

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Athlon XP/2200+: application performance

ZD Business Winstone 2001With business applications such as Word, Excel, Notes and WinZip, which are all components of Business Winstone 2001, the new Athlon XP/2200+ further extends its lead over the Intel competition. Even a 2.

June 18, 2002 by Kai Schmerer

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Pentium 4 v Athlon XP: rendering performance

3D Studio MaxDespite a new version 2.46 of 3D Studio Max that contains optimisations for the Pentium 4, rendering of simple 3D objects (Kinetix-logo) does not go faster with the new Pentium 4/2533 than with an Athlon XP/2100+.

May 16, 2002 by Kai Schmerer

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MP3 Jukebox Programs

Today software jukeboxes programs do a lot more than play music. They let you work with multiple audio-file formats, create and save playlists, copy files to a CD or portable MP3 player, and even print CD covers and inserts.

August 31, 2001

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