I know, I'm taking the title thing too far, this will be the last one I promise.
The Mac article is done and has been done for a while, the publication date is October 8th. I pushed it so far back so I could hopefully have more Mac articles done, giving you all a nice continuum of Mac articles for a while; unfortunately things don't always work as planned. At this point ATI has been the most cooperative when it comes to supporting the Mac section; they've always been good to send me Mac related products and later this month I will be making a trip up to ATI's Marlborough, MA offices to talk to their Mac team about what they're working on. NVIDIA on the other hand has been far less helpful, I've been requesting their new 6800 Ultra DDL since before the wedding and have yet to receive anything firm. I will get through to them, it's just going to take a little more time. One of the first product-review related articles will be a GPU roundup, I just need NVIDIA to cooperate so I can actually make it happen.
Next up: hard drives. I told you all I was going to work on a follow-up RAID article before I got married and I meant it, but what I wasn't prepared for was how massive the project was going to get. The innocent little RAID article has now turned into a massive set of HDD Guides, about 10 in all, to be published starting the end of this month and continuously throughout the end of this year. What's going to be covered? Everything. Desktop, gaming, server performance, SATA, ATA, SCSI, controllers, RAID, everything. The project is so big that I had to split it up, like I said, into around 10 individual articles or guides (not sure which I'm going to call them yet). I have already put in requests with all of the hard drive manufacturers and I have already started receiving drives. Controllers have also been requested and they will hopefully be fulfilled soon. I expect to start initial benchmarking by the end of next week; I'm waiting for some more motherboards and CPUs to arrive at our place here in Branford before I can start benchmarking.
Over my blog hiatus I also brought on a new editor to AnandTech, he's someone that most of you have probably already heard of and he'll be contributing content about once a month. More on him later...
This month should be relatively interesting, there are a couple of NDAs coming up that you'll hear more about in the coming weeks.
Take care and enjoy the weekend.
The Mac article is done and has been done for a while, the publication date is October 8th. I pushed it so far back so I could hopefully have more Mac articles done, giving you all a nice continuum of Mac articles for a while; unfortunately things don't always work as planned. At this point ATI has been the most cooperative when it comes to supporting the Mac section; they've always been good to send me Mac related products and later this month I will be making a trip up to ATI's Marlborough, MA offices to talk to their Mac team about what they're working on. NVIDIA on the other hand has been far less helpful, I've been requesting their new 6800 Ultra DDL since before the wedding and have yet to receive anything firm. I will get through to them, it's just going to take a little more time. One of the first product-review related articles will be a GPU roundup, I just need NVIDIA to cooperate so I can actually make it happen.
Next up: hard drives. I told you all I was going to work on a follow-up RAID article before I got married and I meant it, but what I wasn't prepared for was how massive the project was going to get. The innocent little RAID article has now turned into a massive set of HDD Guides, about 10 in all, to be published starting the end of this month and continuously throughout the end of this year. What's going to be covered? Everything. Desktop, gaming, server performance, SATA, ATA, SCSI, controllers, RAID, everything. The project is so big that I had to split it up, like I said, into around 10 individual articles or guides (not sure which I'm going to call them yet). I have already put in requests with all of the hard drive manufacturers and I have already started receiving drives. Controllers have also been requested and they will hopefully be fulfilled soon. I expect to start initial benchmarking by the end of next week; I'm waiting for some more motherboards and CPUs to arrive at our place here in Branford before I can start benchmarking.
Over my blog hiatus I also brought on a new editor to AnandTech, he's someone that most of you have probably already heard of and he'll be contributing content about once a month. More on him later...
This month should be relatively interesting, there are a couple of NDAs coming up that you'll hear more about in the coming weeks.
Take care and enjoy the weekend.
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Joe - Thursday, October 7, 2004 - link
Reports are out yesterday that Nvida is now shipping the 6800. Mac buyers are reporting confirmation of PowerMac shipments with the 6800klah - Tuesday, October 5, 2004 - link
"Let me get this right. You got Van Smith? THE VAN SMITH? Excuse me while I clean up, I just shat myself."That ";)" was a wink. I was joking. Not that it would be a bad idea...
Anonymous - Tuesday, October 5, 2004 - link
#17: Calm down. He hasn't confirmed anything.WHOA - Tuesday, October 5, 2004 - link
Let me get this right. You got Van Smith? THE VAN SMITH? Excuse me while I clean up, I just shat myself.klah - Tuesday, October 5, 2004 - link
"Over my blog hiatus I also brought on a new editor to AnandTech, he's someone that most of you have probably already heard of and he'll be contributing content about once a month."Van Smith! ;)
Tab - Monday, October 4, 2004 - link
I know how hard you work AnAnd, but could you please mention some thing about cabling? Such as 40w and 80 wire cables? Not to mention the benifits of S-ATA. :Rahim Z. - Monday, October 4, 2004 - link
Really, WOW thats going to be a lot of work, but im interested more in the security and networking software. so when u get to that please inform me.Glad to hear - Monday, October 4, 2004 - link
That's what I'm talking about Anand, getting back to work. Precisely why I said "quit screwin' and start reviewin'"!"we'd use our Macs even if PCs were twice as fast because of the other benefits to us of the Mac platform"
I have been a Mac user for a LONG time. I started on a Performa 476 with OS 7.1. PCs always sucked to me but I have to give credit to Micro$oft for making XP a very good platorm.
The problem is that for the longest times PCs were "twice as fast" compared to Macs. Even when Apple opened up and allowed Mac clones (remember that) it still didn't help the HUGE difference in price/performance when compared to the PC. Macs continue to be more for less. I have up trying to keep up with the Mac "Jones'". It really comes down to preference and price more than anything I suppose.
Personally I'd like seeing come cross-platform benchies including Linux. I think it would be very informative.
Anonymous - Monday, October 4, 2004 - link
#11: AnandTech and all publications get their products directly from companies so I don't think ATi or Nvidia will try to send a tricked out version for the hype purposes because once the products hit the retail channel and users find out that Nvidia and ATi sent out "tricked versions" of the products, they will have a serious blow to their reputation.So I think it is safe to assume that AnandTech will not get any special or tricked out products from either companies.
GhandiInstinct - Monday, October 4, 2004 - link
Anand, is it safe to assume that getting products directly from ATI and Nvidia will give you "tricked out" products rather than standard retail?