Currently, the battery provided with most laptop is sufficient to watch a whole DVD in a row. This could be different in a near future, with the arrival of HD-DVD. Indeed, this format requires processing 6 times more information than a standard DVD. Graphic cards migh be much more used, increasing significantly their power consumption. According to ATI, the autonomy of a laptop could be divided by three when reading a HD-DVD. In order to limit this problem that could waste the trip of several travelling movie-addicts, the canadian graphic chip manufacturer is considering the possibility of implementing a specialised decoding unit within the GPU for this format. While playing the HD-DVD, only this unit would be working, while the rest of the graphic card would be in sleeping mode.
Sébastien sent us a few pictures showing how successful the london Apple Store is.
It would be interesting to know whether those customers have been taken from other resellers, or whether they are "brand new" ones, coming for a first Apple purchase.
If anyone of you has any idea or information about this topic, feel free to communicate it.
Some of our readers where contacted by the iTMS to answer a lengthy online survey. For the ones courageous enough to reach the end of this survey, the reward was a free song from the iTMS. A good deal for those with time to waste.
[Trans.: That's a "4.95 €cents a minute" deal... Hum.]
Monster Cable, quite famous for making pretty many connecting accessories for iPod, is about to launch a producting to compete with Ice>Link.
iCruze will make the same: allow the driver to use and pilot its iPod through the car radio. This product should be available after Christmas.
We talked about the controversial attack against spammers leaded by Lycos,
Make Love not Spam.
The site has been closed since a while. It was hacked.
A message warns the people taking part to this attack that their IP had been registered and that their ISP would be warned of their behaviour.
This adventure shows until what point those people, making tons of bucks filling our mailboxes with undesired e-mails, are ready to go, to prevent anyone from blocking somehow their lucrative activities.
