LINPACK: Intel’s Nehalem versus AMD Shanghai

 
 
A “beta BIOS update” broke compatibility with ESX, so we had to postpone our virtualization testing on our quad CPU AMD 8384 System.
 
So we started an in depth comparison of the 45 nm Opterons, Xeons and Core i7 CPUs. One of our benchmarks, the famous LINPACK (you can read all about it here) painted a pretty [...]

IPhone Not “Really Fast” Say UK Officials

Another Apple ad gets the axe in the UK for questionable statements
Apple is known for its “Get a Mac” commercials, which blast Windows as virus-laden and virtually unusable. They have been a real headache for Microsoft which is finding that people’s negative perceptions of Vista often have little to do with the OS’s real problems.
While slightly more sedate with [...]