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...live virtual lives. Something tells me undergrads weren't pulling out their planners 25 years ago to pencil in Sunday brunch with their roommates. We hear the casualties of the computer age during exam time--with those who can no longer think sequentially and long for a word processor to help them organize their thoughts. Never mind love--there's no time for anything. Off to the gym, off to coffee, off to call the broker. You can go virtually anywhere in the world (except, I suppose, inside the Porcellian). You can obtain a virtual identity (I could be dirtydancer666...
...Food Processor 1973, for home use, by Robot-Coupe...
According to BYTEmark integer test scores, the G3 Processor in every iMac is over 40 percent faster than a 400 MHz Pentium II. The iMac also integrates the Universal Serial Bus (USB) for connecting peripherals such as keyboards, mice and disk drives. This technology, now standard in many PCs, is over 50 times faster and more user-friendly than its predecessors...
...Last year, when I was trying to decide whether to buy the PlayStation or the N64, I went with the Sony. With 10 times as many games to choose from, there didn't seem to be a contest. I hadn't seen any evidence that Nintendo's 64-bit processor (twice as fast as the PlayStation's) made a great difference in game play. Besides, Sony-only games like the Crash Bandicoot series--which sold more than 5 million copies--proved to be as good as, if not better than, Nintendo's best. The latest in the series, Crash Bandicoot...
...could face new competition next year from inexpensive, tablet-style devices for surfing the Web and reading e-mail. At this week's Comdex show in Las Vegas, Cyrix is unveiling a prototype of its 2.7-lb. WebPAD with a 10.4-in. color screen and a 200-MHz processor. Wireless technology requires a "base station" or computer to be nearby, and the keyboard is optional, but the chipmaker hopes to entice vendors to sell the device for about $500 by next summer...