Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th May 2008 07:08 UTC
Windows XP SP3, the final service pack for Windows XP, was released to manufacturing a few weeks ago, and popped up on Windows Update about a week later. Even though the service pack is rather light on actual new features, it still caused a few problems for some users. Despite these problems, some benchmarks show that while SP3 delivers better performance compared to XP SP2, Microsoft seems to have solved many performance issues with Vista, turning the company's latest OS offering into the better choice for gaming - according to ExtremeTech.
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There are a lot of people like me who don't game anymore on their PC and only need the internet connection.
Same here, infact, when I purchased this laptop, Windows Vista didn't even get to the first boot; I erased the whole disk using the Hitachi Disk tool, then I installed OpenSolaris B87 - I haven't looked back since.
More and more games are coming to xbox, there will be keyboards, mice and so forth; big computers are going to be basically the realms of a niche few with most consumers going for laptop for work and a games machine for entertainment. Even Microsoft see that, hence their move with XBox 360 attempting to be the centre of the 'family entertainment'.
The move to laptops mean more standardised hardware, easier to install alternative operating systems - a rise in Ultra Portable as computers become nothing more than music playing, internet surfing, cheque book balancing, letter writing machines.