New XBOX360 and Kinect
On the E3 finally Project Natal was presented as Kinect. November 2010 is the release date in the USA, Europe’s release date is not known yet.
Here you see some examples of Kinect, new games and the new XBOX360:
Read here the official announcement from Microsoft on the E3 and the video in full quality.
Rest In Peace : Henk Grendel (18-04-1929 – 04-12-2009)
Yesterday evening, 4th of december 2009, at 11.30pm passed my dear friend Henk Grendel away.
I know Henk since my childhood. He owned a Commodore Amiga, like I did at that time. I met him because he was a friend of my father.
People who experienced problems with learning to do computer stuff did sometimes hear me say. Come on. It’s not that hard. My friend Henk is 80 years and he can manage it, that’s right. He did. Sad to write in past time. Henk is no more.
Since a few weeks he had Windows 7 correctly installed on his computer with some tips and hints I gave him. He had to know the difference. Fantastic to see this.
I can remember one time he had a complaint filed with Apple because the sync-program between his iPod and Windows did not function well and now and than his collection was erased. Always funny moment when the people asked him his age. If he called me those moments gave me a big smile on my face. He actually knew more about it than the young nerds who were working at the helpdesk.
He was delighted on gadgets. We shared that interest…
We could have a good discussion… because on some issues we were not having the same thoughts and ideas but always did we respect eachother opinion and feeling.
Henk, Rest In Peace…
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32 or 64 bit, that’s the question…
With the announcement of Windows 7 more and more systems will be delivered with the 64-bit edition.
The most important advantage of 64 bit versus 32 bit is that you can use more than 3.5 GB in your system. If your computer at the moment is equipped with 4 GB you can only use 3.5 GB for your system and applications. With 64 bit versions either Vista or Windows 7 you can use above 4GB.
Your processor has to have 64-bit capabilities.
I have tested several versions especially with the focus on speed. Windows Vista and Windows 7 were tested in 32 and 64 bit on an AMD Turion64 X2.
My focus was looking for difference between the feeling of speed and working speed.
Editting a Full HD 1080p recording with adding 3 effect in Adobe Premire Elements 7 (32 bit version).
I did a surprising conclusion.
I had expected that Vista 64 would give a power boost, but this wasn’t true. I had Windows 7 32bit installed. The editting went without delays. The system was able to monitor the recording without sound stuttering.
Weird was this problem is known due to slow harddrives. The harddrive cannot cope with the stream. On the desktop computer I don’t have this problem due to faster harddrives, on the notebook I have. The weird part is that I was able to edit easier and faster on Windows 7 32bit than on the fast desktop pc.
I would have expected Vista 64 should perform the same or better than Windows 7 in 32bit… End conclusion is that Windows 7 is really faster with the same hardware even on 32 and 64 bit… On this ‘old’ notebook I have a preference for the 32 bit version because I can’t upgrade to more than 4GB. Also some drivers and programs cannot deal well with 64 bit yet. But it is really well compared to Vista 64.
I’m sure the next computer will be 100% certainly Windows 7, 64 bit edition…