It means the card's performance isn't restricted by a slow system so it's easier to measure the difference between cards.

Last week's news.

"Uh, it makes perfect sense."

I hope for your sake you are joking.

Take a look at these bits and then tell me again that it's written in good English:

"[here] comes Pioneer latest, are the firm is unleashing a UK-based head unit that does a little navigatin' while holding down your multimedia demands."

"but savvy shoppers should it a few hundred pounds cheaper if snooping around."

It's careless and lazy, it's missing joining words all over the place among other things.
In such a popular, industry-leading world-read 'blog' there is really no excuse.

Your comment that this is 'British English' (I am British) is ridiculous. The basic rules of English still apply (regardless of 'variation')and this article fails on a number of them.

That has go to be one of the poorest written articles I have ever had the misfortune to read.

Words are missing, sentences don't make sense, words are written in singular when they should be plural.

The quality of the writing in the articles seems to have nose-dived recently.

You should be ashamed, proof-reading of a one paragraph article takes less than a minute and yet you call yourselves journalists.

Absolutely disgraceful.

It seems like an attempt for a global DRM system which, although is worse than no DRM, it's better than multiple incompatible DRM systems for individual platforms and formats.

The Xvid codec will decode DivX as well.

What sort of people wear earphones in the club?

I just got the Saitek Eclipse II keyboard in the post today.

Excellent keyboard for gaming and for general typing.

And it's also backlit (can choose from of 3 colours whilst in use) and it is pretty cheap too @ �25 (~$45).

It's also not a huge keyboard so doesn't take up too much space on the desk and is also rather better looking than the Tarantula.

I recommend it.

Toby:

It will keep all your files and documents and many of your settings.

It will also keep all your installed programs.
However, very few of these will work and it is likely that once you upgrade and boot into Vista, the whole thing will crash as the numerous programs you have that run on startup try to run and fail.

I strongly advise that you only install this on a clean partition away from valuable files.

TO PEOPLE ASKING ABOUT INSTALLING VISTA WITH XP

1. It would be foolish to upgrade your winxp installation to Vista as it's not 100% stable and not all programs are compatible. The Upgrade option is available, but it's not recommended.
2. Install Vista on a separate partition (to Win XP)that is at least 12GB in size(required by Vista.)(This means you can dual-boot between your XP installation and Vista)
3. Ensure that any personal files etc that you use are kept on a partition that is free from any OS installation
4. Don't whine like a baby and curse Microsoft when things don't wrk or when the whole things crashes, this is what beta build will do.
5. Download it from a torrent link as MS servers are having issues at the moment (look for build 5384.4), but signup with MS here ( http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx ) to get you product keys. You can get a maximum of 2 keys, and each will allow up to 10 computers to be activated with MS.

If I think of anything else, I'll make another post.