deepaksharmaThe Vista Start Menu has links to almost everything: Music, Games, Pictures, Documents, etc. You may not need all of these, or you may need to add some more shortcuts. To remove
these links, right-click on the taskbar and click on Properties. Click on the Start Menu tab. Here you can choose to set the Start Menu to look like older Windows versions, you can choose to
deepaksharmaThe only icons on the desktop you will find after a clean install of Vista is that of the Recycle Bin. We love our desktops, and it’s one of the quickest ways to access programs. To get icons of the other
deepaksharmaThis black beauty comes with an HDMI-out—perfect if you’re planning on getting an LCD HDTV. The Elite sports a full 1080p HD resolution; it also comes with a 120 GB hard drive, and unfortunately, not much more in terms of features than the regular Xbox models. But well, you’ll be able to actually use it as a media centre to play back movies on your HDTV. Besides, with the Elite you get digital audio. And more… The Elite is supposed to be backwards-compatible with previous Xbox and Xbox 360 games, but this doesn’t hold true all the time.
deepaksharmaIf it’s portable entertainment, nothing beats the Sony PSP (PlayStation Portable). There’s a new version out called the PSP Slim, widely available with your local grey market vendor. Price varies between Rs 7.5 and 8.5K. So what’s so good about it? Well, the Slim (PSP 2000) is lighter than the PSP (PSP 1000)—down to 189 gm with batteries. It has been optimised to use less power. The RAM
deepaksharmaThe hottest tech talk on the Internet now is, of course, about cores. AMD has officially announced its Quad FX Platform, in which a pair of AMD Athlon 64 FX series dual-core processors can be used together on a supporting motherboard. This dual-socket platform enables use of four cores for megatasking— use of multiple displays or running multithreaded applications such as games, while running other processes like disc burning and so on.
Power consumption is much higher than an equivalent Intel system, though. Some forums are
