ATI Catalyst 5.11, 5.12, 5.13 Beta and Radeon Omega Drivers 2.6.87 performance comprasion. ATI updates its drivers software monthly. This tradition was set up after the first version of Catalyst software was out. But besides that, index version is chosen with the accordance to one specific rule. The first part of it symbolizes the year when the software was out and the second is the month when the driver was released. We should mention that changes in every new version of ATI graphics drivers are not very fundamental. Usually only some bugs are corrected and the performance is improved a little in some popular tests and games. But when the new generation of GPUs is released the company programmers very often need to optimize the driver code for some time. So the new drivers version sometimes can include considerable improvements, but in most cases they concern only the last generation of graphical processors.

Those people whose childhood fell on the “happy” nineties, at least most of them, remember what the “hunt” for innovative at that time computer games was like. They could be called “computer” only at a stretch since the majority of the middle class in our country used to do with available games devices like Dendy or SEGA, cartridges for which cost as much as half of the device. Then there appeared computers with diskettes and disks. The latter kind of data storage device is still popular, but is it going to stay dominant long? The producers of Blu-ray are seriously concerned about movies brought online. But is the same going to happen to games? Judging by the latest events, it is very likely. Besides, the ideas of certain individuals have gone further – you won’t have to download a game, just get an image from the Internet that has been drawn on a remote server. It already exists and works now. And this article tells how it works and where it exists.

In the 12 of November 2007, Intel Company introduced new processors, which were known as Penryn before. In a range of main novelties??™ modifications there is a change-over on new type transistor usage. A month later, the 12 of December, in Moscow, Intel Company pass the presentation of new CPU. This arrangement was dated to the 60 years from the transistor invention except the description about 45 nm processor possibilities.

Apple performed the Safari browser for Windows final release in March 2008. Threre are high productivity and usability in the list of it advantages. This is the first browser on the WebKit runner ported on the Microsoft operational system. We decided to check the declared and don't declared advantages and to find disadvantages independently. We examined all Safari functional in ditails. The results of our work are in this article.

Many people pay attention for the time of it unmanaged mode time when buy laptop for usage without net. But do not all aspects depend from accumulator and energy consumption of processor. Any, even the most save mobile computer is able to discharge it accumulator, if it was very loaded. Not everybody knows the laptop component that consumes a lot of energy and the component consumes a little one. We've found out it. The results are in this article.

Already ears about Windows 7 exist more than a year. Microsoft, unerstanding the low popularity of Vista, decided to tell about the next OS version's plans. At the beginning of 2008 its first preliminary build was ready and performed to a few partners of the company. And at the end of October, 2008 there is the 6801 build in Internet. We were able to get it in the order and suggest to familiarize with it in this article.

The Samsung Company is on up-grade today. It is swiftly working up the market of mobile phones and smartphones, and its profits enable it to create unique and high-quality products as well as to experiment with new technologies. Pico-projectors are one of the relatively new trends of the South Korean manufacturer. A pico-projector is a miniature of a regular projector. This device is notable for its small size and can be compared to a packet of cigarettes. It is able to display an image of 100" in diagonal, though. There appears a question: whether it’s going to be of a good quality? This article answers it and tells what else the pico-projector Samsung SP-H03 is capable of.