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AbsoluteVista.com to give away HP xw4600 Workstation

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While I work out the details of how I want this to go, I would like to announce that I have been able to secure a sponsorship tat will allow me to give away one HP xw4600 Personal Workstation after a 30-day contest period.

I am completely stoked at this opportunity, and I wish all potential contestants success.

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© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

The AbsoluteVista.com HP xw6600 Review

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I have had a copy of the HP xw6600 Personal Workstation for review at the Orbiting O’odua for nearly a month.

The xw6600 is one of the smallest form factor dual-socket workstations on the market today. A product of HP’s over quarter-century of experience in workstations, this system came with an ultra quiet tool-less case*, dual quad-core Intel Xeon 5450 CPUs, and 4GB of DDR2-667 FBD RAM. This baby also came with a Quadro FX1700 with a whopping 768MB.

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Microsoft Equipt

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About time!

With all the talk about alternative office suites out there, Microsoft has been lagging in articulating it’s strategy for delivering a financially-competitive offering in this space.

No longer.

With the announcement of Microsoft Equipt – formerly code-named ‘Albany’, Microsoft is attempting to kill several birds with one stone.

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© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

The AbsoluteVista.com HP xw4600 Review

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HP xw4600 Personal Workstation

I have been testing the HP xw4600 Personal Workstation these past few weeks.

The xw4600 is near the low end of a range of extremely powerful and very customizable workstations from HP. However, it is priced starting against some of the more pedestrian systems we find at mega-mart. Have no fear though, this is one serious machine

My test unit came with a Core 2 Duo processor, 8GB of RAM, and Windows Vista Business x64.

I promptly erased Vista Business and installed Windows Vista Ultimate x64

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© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

HP Workstations: Design & Performance

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Workstations in general, and HP workstations in particular, were introduced to me as a viable alternative to the fully configured desktop computer system.

Pursuant to that, I received a couple of HP workstations to review. My review of the xw4600 follows below. The xw6600, which shares the same design and performance philosophies; as a result, that review will focus on the performance scenarios run by SmallBizVista.com.

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© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

CyberLink DVDSuite 6 Ultimate

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A changing of the guard

For the past several years, ahead's Nero had been an essential of both my personal and corporate toolboxes.

No longer!

There is a new and highly recommended replacement: CyberLink's DVDSuite 6 Ultimate.

Like Nero, CyberLink's DVDSuite is a suite of consumer-class digital media software. However, unlike it, DVDSuite is a comprehensive and integrated suite of programs that is easy to use and become proficient in within a very short period.

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© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

AMD Tech Day 2008

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For several days this past week, I was in Austin, Texas, for AMD’s Tech Day 2008, and more.

As is usual with AMD, I was given a very good look into their products, strategy, and pipeline, and as usual, I came away impressed.

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© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

Intel’s global antitrust mess

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AMD has been battling it out with Intel in the courts in the US.

About a year ago, we were able to get a teleconference with AMD Executive VP and general counsel, Tom McCoy, the details of which I posted here after a personal follow-on interview with Tom.

Well, a couple of weeks ago, the other shoe dropped, with the United States Federal Trade Commission, FTC, escalating their former informal inquiry into Intel's trade practices into a formal full-blown investigation.

After that, a cascade of (mostly) bad news has been dropping for Intel.

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© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

HP Personal Workstations

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Yesterday, I was at the HP facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, where I was briefed on HP's offerings in the workstation space.

I went in to see what the offerings were with a view to finding out more information about the systems, and to see if they would pass muster, and become Logikworx's recommended line of workstations, replacing our current line.

In a nutshell, I came away impressed.

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© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

Microsoft Office & the ODF format

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Sometimes it is a wonder how the obvious manages to escape the eyes of the supposedly knowledgeable.

Case in point is Microsoft's decision to add ODF and PDF read/write functionality directly into the next service pack of Microsoft Office 2007, this before the ISO 29500-standard is implemented.

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© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

OLPC returns to Terra, decides to use Windows XP after all!

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Last week, the news came down that the OLPC had decided to use Microsoft's Windows XP as one of the operating systems shipping with the system.

What a letdown for those folks looking to colonize the next generation of 3rd World inhabitants to satisfy their warped egos.

If the allegations made by a former OLPC drone Ivan Krstic are true, then Nicko is a real sick fucker!

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© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

Light blogging the last few…

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…and the next few as well!

Due to a move and going live on a new project, I have been virtually absent from blogging these past few weeks, except for taking advantage of this blog's inclusion in the HP/BuzzCorps.

When opportune, I shall endeavor to post on matters not to stale to blog.

© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

Red RHAT gives up on desktop Linux! Film at 11!

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Really, though, who didn't see this coming?

Who?

The unwashed mob that is known as freetards collectively by the rest of the human race (and affectionately as the Linux-heads by the open source proletariat), really, truly, wanted this to work.

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Microsoft CRM Online & Salesforce.com

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One of the more intriguing new offerings from Microsoft is the 'X' Online series of hosted applications, of which CRM Online is one of the more visible.

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© 2005-2009, John Obeto for SmallBizWindows

OOXML: Rumors, innuendos, and outright lies!

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When you tell a lie often enough, it takes on a patina of truth each time it is uttered, and after a while, it starts to sound like the truth.

Rumors of underhanded tactics, skullduggery, and outright bribery have been heaped on Microsoft since the win.

Microsoft has largely remained silent, in my opinion, allowing these rumors to fester.

In the just-concluded, successful standardization process for ISO 29500, aka OOXML, a lot of ink has been spent by the opposition to OOXML in trying to discredit Microsoft and the standardization process.

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