Intel and Microsoft are building Hoover. I hope it doesn't su@@.....................................
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Bill got a chance to see an i740-based AGP graphics card up close and personal. He sent Alice a note. It read, "How do you spell 'Bleeechhhhhh'?" But there's insight available even from the mundane because Bill's figured out just what's happening here.
Intel and Microsoft are hedging their bets on the computer industry and secretly designing a game machine, code-named Hoover, as a joint project. However, they're trying out the various components in the computer marketplace. That's the only reason for a CPU like the Celeron and a graphics accelerator like the i740. Think of it. They put the processor, graphics, and sound on a 5x7 motherboard. Then add a self-booting ROM BIOS, a joystick port, a modem, and a DVD player. Sell the whole shebang for $399 as a video/Internet/game box (with the appropriate software either in ROM or on CD) and--voil…--they have a second income. And a flock of meteors may penetrate the atmosphere, impact the earth, and radically change life as we know it, remember.
Bill was going to send the wonder twins a T-shirt, but he's been designing a new one on a Celeron system with an i740 graphics adapter, so it might take a little while.
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