Recent content by Bill Campbell

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    Intel Announces 'Iris' as Top Tier Graphics for Haswell

    jezus53, the existing integrated graphics will perform no worse than this for "viewing documents." Viewing a document requires a refresh only when you're scrolling. Also, many document viewers will utilize the GDI which isn't even accelerated on some systems. Modern enterprise applications...
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    Report: No Service Pack 2 for Windows 7

    I can't speak for the business user, but for the gaming crowd, Microsoft will simply discontinue updating DirectX for Windows 7, just as they did with XP, and then all gamers will be forced to upgrade to Windows 8 to play the newest games. If that happens, I'll stop playing games altogether...
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    Intel Announces 'Iris' as Top Tier Graphics for Haswell

    Nobody buys a CPU for the integrated graphics capabilities; EVER. I disable it on every CPU/Motherboard it's implemented on. An $80 PCI-Express x16 graphics card would blow this away. Why do they waste their time, and the end user's money? (R&D costs the end user in the end)