Kenban

The PS3 has only 7 SPU's the 8th is disabled to improve yields.

The 360 has 3 PPC cores.

From the wording I think its clear that Microsoft will pick the title. It sounds like its going to be a title that has the price changed to 0 points so that anyone can just download the full version for free. This has been done before the most recent was the free copy of Carcassonne.

My hope is that its a new title which has not been released yet. Release it as a free download for the first few days that way there is no chance it might have already been purchased.

Orlando, FL (I can even tell you the airport code MCO and I don't have to look it up.)

I just purchased Sonic. The game looks and sounds great. I have seen very few slow downs. But its VERY hard to control. I can't get it to allow me to roll and continue to push forward at the same time. Jumping is iffy because there is just no fine control of movement. But worst of all its crashing every few minutes of gameplay. I am positive I would be past the first level if it would stop crashing but until a new version comes out I would skip it.

roach Microsoft's Surface technology is totally different. It uses a bunch of cameras to track the movement. It would not surprise me if you can trick it by putting your finger or another object close but not touching the screen. Currently it also requires the use of a rear projection screen and projector. The technology would not work in a laptop, portable, or even your average desktop.

The land has already had a lot of work done. Wonders of Life has been closed and it appears will not reopen anytime soon if ever. The building is currently used as rental space for parties and events.

It should be. I have read that there have been voice actors recording the cut scenes so I suspect a good song written for the game will be in it. FF IV is really starting to look amazing and I can't wait for the US release. I just hope that there is no attempt at translating the songs just put subtitles up on the screen and I will be happy (I can understand getting US voice actors for the cut scenes).

The 1" hard drive is already useless because of flash memory. A 16GB compact flash card which is the same size (but uses less power and is more reliable) then the 1" drive only costs just over $100 (newegg).

Samsung is already shipping nand flash memory in high enough densities to build 32 and 64GB compact flash cards. Its possible to find a 32GB card and if you really look around and are willing to pay close to $1000 a 64GB card is available. But at the rate the prices are dropping 32GB will be $150 or less by the end of next year.

This drive is going to just target the same audience already served by flash memory and 1.8" drives. I just don't see the point because I don't think 1.3" is large enough to justify the space and power requirements over flash memory.

I say go for Marble Blast Ultra. Although I remember reading about an expansion that was finished and delivered to Microsoft around a year ago and it has never been released. Any news on whats going on with that?

AMD is behind in just about every way possible and I have no idea if its even possible for them to catch back up soon enough to save the company. Intel has been spending huge amounts of money working on better production processes. Only one other company is even producing 45nm chips currently and AMD is still trying to get to 65nm. AMD is 2 years behind Intel in production alone.

The Pentium 4 was a complete mistake and failed design strategy. But AMD could not get big OEM producers like Dell to start offering their chips until it was too late. I really think this is a bad case of Intel forcing these companies into not offering alternatives.

Today is what's important though and Intel's new chips are better then anything AMD is curently producing. My last 5 desktop computers were all AMD based systems. But I want to build or buy a new computer soon (next 6-9 months) and I currently am not even considering using an AMD chip.

The only thing I can think of is that AMD's purchase of ATI might offer them a chance to do some interesting systems integration. I think a new low cost chipset designed for lower power systems which uses a dual-core CPU with a GPU integrated into the die (so it can use the CPU's memory controller). Along with that a single motherboard chip which integrates everything from a standard north and south bridge. This combination could be huge in the low cost and laptop market. It could also be good for media center systems.