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24/09/05
Added an initial Roadmap entry for nVidia's G80.
Noted the release of Firefox 1.07 and moved the Firefox 1.5 Roadmap entry.
Noted the release of Opera 8.5 in it's advert free form.

20/09/05
Updated & split the nVidia integrated graphics chipset Roadmap entries - the nForce 410 and nForce 430 MCPs and their GeForce 6100 and GeForce 6150 graphics cores.
Added a separate Roadmap entry fro ICH8.
Moved and slightly updated the Office 12 Roadmap entry.
Updated the AGP and PCI Express Graphics section of the Recommendations page.

19/09/05
Added a Roadmap entry for the forthcoming GeForce Go 7800 GTX.
Noted the release of Windows 2000 UR1 V2 last week.

18/09/05
Noted the release of the X800GTO on Friday.
Updated the IE7 Roadmap (Beta 2 preview, Beta 2 and final).
Noted the release of Visual Studio 2005 RC1.
Updated the release schedule for the X-Box 360.
Updated the Radeon X1800 XT and X1800 Pro Roadmap entries to reflect initial benchmarks.
Removed the GeForce 7800 Ultra Roadmap entry (not required now that the R520 is expected to perform no better than the GeForce 7800GTX)
Added a Roadmap entry for a 'standard' GeForce 7800.
Updated the expected release date of Windows Media Center 2005 UR2 (Emerald).

14/09/05
Updated the Roadmap entries for the X1800 XT, X1800 Pro and X1800 XL.
Moved the Roadmap entries for the X1600 and X1300 series.

13/09/05
Updated the release date for the Radeon X800GTO, which is expected to be released this Friday.
Moved the X1800 XL Roadmap entry to October, specifying an exact launch date.
Updated the Radeon X1800 XT, X1800 Pro and X1800 XL Roadmap entries to give further information about their expected specifications & clock speeds.
Added a Roadmap entry for the Radeon X1800 LE.

11/09/05
Updated the forthcoming ATI GPUs with their final names - X1800 (R520), X1600 (RV530) and X1300 (RV515).
Slight updates to the Radeon X1800 Roadmap entry.
Noted the expected pipeline counts for R580.
Updated the expected release date of the Celeron 355.
Updated the Intel CPU Prices page to reflect expected price cuts in January 2006.
Moved the Windows Media Center Edition 2005 Update Rollup 2 (Emerald) Roadmap entry to Q4.
Added a Roadmap entry for Windows XP Media Centre Edition 2006.
Updated the Windows Vista Roadmap entry to outline the featuresets of the various editions that will be released.

04/09/05
Updated the Security and Maps & Travel sections of the Other Links page.
Updated the R520 Roadmap entry.

I will be on holiday in Tuscany, Italy until 11th September, so my site will not be updated until then.

03/09/05
Updated the Pentium Extreme Edition (Presler) Roadmap entry with details of clock speeds and L2 cache sizes.

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