It looks like the NDAs have lifted and the reviews are pouring in. So far we have HardOCP claiming that the AMD FX-62 CPU is a tad bit slower than Intel’s top of the line Core 2 Duo chip. Then we have Anandtech reporting that the lower end E6600 Core 2 Duo chip is outperforming AMD FX-62 chip in most benchmarks and on top of that they were able to get the chip to 4.0GHz on air!!!! That is just insane! I’ll be linking to the review sites as they start to come in.
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Archive for July 13th, 2006
I’ve posted about backpacks in the past. I just bought the Jansport Solstice about six months ago. I received the bag, thought it was damn cool but soon came to realize that it was much smaller than what I needed it for and that there were a few minor quirks that annoyed the crap out of me.
First and foremost the bottom of the bag drooped incredibly low and would press up against your back while having anything medium sized/heavy in the bag.
When I first started looking for bags I found two Jansport bags that were in my radar. I opted for the smaller looking bag and received the Solstices. Now looking back, I should have, from the start, choose the Jansport Odyssey. This bag has AirLift shoulder straps with a removable sternum strap, two large compartments with organizer compartments which keeps all the pencils, pens, calculators, various other things in a neat and tidy place, it is form-fitting, it has an internal frame sheet and aluminum stay which will keep the bag from bunching up. This is a problem I had [bunching up] with the Jansport Solstice. You would put a light item in the bag and when you’re walking, you’d notice something riding on your back. It was a major annoyance and with the stay sheet, this will not happen anymore. You may come across a review from someone on another site which indicated that the side pockets which can hold water bottles and the like does not hold bottles very well. Well, that’s true but if I’m not mistaken, you should use the compression straps to help hold the water bottle in. That is what I did with the Solstice and I never had a problem, once.
All in all, I’m waiting for the bag to come in, I will keep you all updated, as always.
So I received the IOGear KVM switch. The build quality of it is really sturdy. It comes with four 6-feet cables and the various cards for registering your product.
I am at home right now so I can’t test it on more than one box but I was surprised to find out that after plugging my mouse and keyboard receiver into the KVM and then plugging the KVM into my nForce 4 chipset motherboard, that the keyboard and mouse worked like normal. Something froze up and I could only move the mouse and then eventually froze the entire computer up. I’m pretty sure it’s due to the incompatibility with the nForce 4 chipset.
I’ve bought a USB 2.0 hub to alleviate the problem. That should be arriving in another few days. I’ll be able to fully test this KVM when I go in to work tomorrow. I will report back in this post what I find and if it’s any better than the Belkin KVM switch I’m using right now.
Here’s hoping that it will be much better and a great improvement over the Belkin!