Acer slam Microsoft
The head of Taiwan-based personal computer maker Acer, Gianfranco Lanci, slam Microsoft for its not up to standard Vista Operating System.
Personally I couldn’t agree more, “I really don’t think that someone has bought a new PC specifically for Vista,” he added. I bought an Acer Aspire laptop and I choose Windows Xp instead of Vista because of stability and software compatibility. Anyway, mine is a laptop and since Vista drains battery at 40% faster than XP, I see no reason for me to choose Vista, it defeats the idea of having a portable computer anyway.
Read more – The Age
Western Digital Energy Saving Hard Disk
Finally, Western Digital is leading the hard disk industry in bring out energy saving hard disk, according to source, The GreenPower family will ship in capacities from 320 Gbytes to 1 terabyte and will use 40% less energy than other similar products.
The GreenPower drives only consume about 8.5 watts compare to Hitachi’s 13.5 watts, currently it is only available in 3.5 inch format, if Western Digital has the ability to further reduce the energy consumption and comes in a 2.5 inch format for the laptop, they have a winner.
Source: ARS
