31/05/05
Updated the Roadmap following the release of AMD's X2 processors -
Manchester and
Toldeo.
Updated the Roadmap following the release of ATI's Crossfire products -
the ATI Radeon Xpress 200 CrossFire-Edition for
Intel and
AMD along with the Radeon
X850 and
X800 Crossfire
Edition GPUs.
Noted the expected cost of the X-Box
360.
Split the i945P and
i945G Roadmap entries and
updated the i945G Roadmap
entry with details of GMA950's improvements over the GMA900 present in
the i915G.
Minor change to the R520 Roadmap
entry to note the CPU overhead of H.264.
28/05/05
Added a Roadmap entry for Windows Media
Player 11.
Added a Roadmap entry for
Windows 2000 UR1.
27/05/05
Updated the Roadmap following the release of Intel's
Smithfield CPUs, the Pentium D
8x0 series.
Updated the Roadmap entries for Intel's
i945 and
i955X chipsets, released
alongside the Pentium D yesterday.
Noted the release of the Pentium 4 670
yesterday. The P4 670 is likely to be the fastest single core NetBurst
CPU to ever be released.
Renamed Creative's Zenith soundcard to
X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity and moved it's release date to August.
Noted the possible inclusion of H.264 decoding hardware inside ATI's
R520.
Added a Roadmap entry for nVidia's forthcoming
C51G chipset for AMD CPUs and
C60G/D chipsets for the
Intel platform.
Updated the VIA C7 (Esther)
Roadmap entry noting it's likely release (more than a year later!).
Minor updates to Intel's Cedarmill
(65nm Celeron) Roadmap entry.
22/05/05
Significantly updated the X-Box 360 Roadmap entry,
which is now as accurate and detailed as the PS3
Roadmap entry.
21/05/05
Updated the expected release date for the Athlon 64 X2
Toledo and
Manchester
cores.
Moved and updated nVidia's G70 Roadmap
entry.
Moved ATI's R520 Roadmap entry.
Added a Roadmap entry for
Netscape 8.0 released on Thursday.
Added a Roadmap entry for AGEIA's PhysX
PPU.
19/05/05
Split the Athlon X2 Roadmap entry into
Toledo and
Manchester
cores in both the Roadmap and the AMD CPU
Prices page.
Very minor fixes to the PS3 Roadmap
entry.
Updated the Roadmap entry for Nintendo's
Revolution console.
Added a Roadmap entry for the
Game Boy Micro.
Added a Roadmap entry for
Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2006.
18/05/05
Split up, and updated, the X-Box 360 Roadmap entry into
announcement and
release.
Noted the announcement of
Sony's Playstation 3.
Rewrote the PS3 main Roadmap entry.
16/05/05
Updated the AGP and
PCI Express Graphics
card recommendations.
15/05/05
Updated the X-Box 360 Roadmap entry.
Moved the Merom Roadmap entry from
early 2007 to late 2006.
Added a Roadmap entry for Conroe.
Reorganised the CPU Roadmap page, adding a
section for Dual Core Athlon 64 processors.
Moved AMD's Windsor and
Orleans Roadmap entries
slightly.
Moved the Athlon 64 FX-57 Roadmap
entry.
11/05/05
Rewrote the Soundblaster
Zenith Roadmap entry.
Updated much of the Recommendations page.
Updated the majority of the systems on the
Example Systems page.
09/05/05
Modified the expected release date of the Intel
5x1 EMT64 P4 CPUs.
Noted the quiet release of the
Pentium Extreme
Edition on May 1st.
Updated the Intel CPU Prices page and
noted that price cuts are expected on June 30th.
Fixed some issues with the Socket 754 CPUs on the
AMD CPU Prices page and added a L2 cache
column.
Noted the release of ATI's
Radeon X800 XL 512MB.
07/05/05
Updated the AMD CPU Prices page following
AMD's price cuts on May 2nd.
Updated the expected release dates of nVidia's
G70 and ATI's
R520 GPUs.
Updated the Max OS X Tiger
Roadmap entry.
Noted the FSB speed of Yonah.
03/05/05
Noted the release of MacOS 10.4,
Tiger.
Added YouSendIt to the Other Links page.
Updated the Roadmap entries for Longhorn
Beta 1,
Developer Preview,
Beta 2 and
RTM.
Added a Roadmap entry for the final release of
Internet Explorer 7.
Updated and moved the IE7 Beta 1
Roadmap entry.
Noted the inclusion of NEC eDRAM into the
X-Box 360.
