Assessing Virtual Machine Performance
If you want to try a new operating system, but don't want to put your computer and data to the risk of being corrupted, virtual machines can come in handy. They are small programs simulating to be a completely independent system with CPU, GPU, memory, HDD, DVD drive and so on and can run another operating system parallel to the... Continue Reading
Assessing Virtual Machine Performance: #3 VMware Player
In this series, I’m going to focus on comparing different Virtual Machines running Windows and their performance regarding different tasks such as single-threaded CPU-only applications, multi-threaded programs or even games requiring hardware 3D acceleration. This article will show you when and for what to use VMware Player. VMware Player is quite similar to Sun Virtual Box. You can also confi... Continue Reading
Assessing Virtual Machine Performance: #2 Sun Virtual Box
In this series, I'm going to focus on comparing different Virtual Machines running Windows and their performance regarding different tasks such as single-threaded CPU-only applications, multi-threaded programs or even games requiring hardware 3D acceleration. This article will show you when and for what to use Sun VirtualBox. For these tests, I used a quite uncommon configuration: I ran a vi... Continue Reading
Assessing Virtual Machine Performance: #1 Microsoft Virtual PC
In this series, I'm going to focus on comparing different Virtual Machines running Windows and their performance regarding different tasks such as single-threaded CPU-only applications, multi-threaded programs or even games requiring hardware 3D acceleration. This article will show you when and for what to use Microsoft Virtual PC and the XP mode that comes with Windows 7. The first thing to... Continue Reading
Opera 10.50b claims to be fastest browser on Earth
Opera claims on its own website that its latest beta version, Opera 10.50b, is the fastest browser the world has seen so far. This statement is based on test results from different browser benchmarks published on the official Opera blog. As Google Chrome has been the fastest browser for a while and the alpha version of Opera 10.50 caught up quite... Continue Reading
Google Chrome 5 comes with automatic page translation
The latest version of Google Chrome, build 5.0.317.2, brings a new feature to improve the browsing experience when visiting foreign websites. It includes an automatic page translation tool which detects the page language and, if it differs from your browser language, offers to translate it to your language using Google Translate. When Chrome offers you to translate a site, a blue... Continue Reading
New version of Opera catching up with Chrome’s performance?
There is an updated benchmark including Opera 10.50b and Chrome 5.0 here! A newly released pre-alpha version of Opera promises to radically improve the browser's performance and speed of displaying and loading websites. The official developer website even claims that "[Opera 10.50] is fast, more than 7x faster in SunSpider than Opera 10.10". Since Google Chrome has been the fastest browser... Continue Reading
Battlefield Bad Company 2 exclusive preview
Yesterday evening, the Closed Beta of Battlefield Bad Company 2 started. I managed to secure a beta key and get the game installer and immediately started testing. First of all, a few screenshots and performance information, but more information and a video will follow! There is a torrent download for Battlefield Bad Company 2 that's working quite well in contrast... Continue Reading
If you want to try a new operating system, but don't want to put your computer and data to the risk of being corrupted, virtual machines can come in handy. They are small programs simulating to be a completely independent system with CPU, GPU, memory, HDD, DVD drive and so on and can run another operating system parallel to the... Continue Reading 
In this series, I’m going to focus on comparing different Virtual Machines running Windows and their performance regarding different tasks such as single-threaded CPU-only applications, multi-threaded programs or even games requiring hardware 3D acceleration.
This article will show you when and for what to use VMware Player.
VMware Player is quite similar to Sun Virtual Box. You can also confi... Continue Reading 
In this series, I'm going to focus on comparing different Virtual Machines running Windows and their performance regarding different tasks such as single-threaded CPU-only applications, multi-threaded programs or even games requiring hardware 3D acceleration.
This article will show you when and for what to use Sun VirtualBox.
For these tests, I used a quite uncommon configuration: I ran a vi... Continue Reading 
In this series, I'm going to focus on comparing different Virtual Machines running Windows and their performance regarding different tasks such as single-threaded CPU-only applications, multi-threaded programs or even games requiring hardware 3D acceleration.
This article will show you when and for what to use Microsoft Virtual PC and the XP mode that comes with Windows 7.
The first thing to... Continue Reading 
Opera claims on its own website that its latest beta version, Opera 10.50b, is the fastest browser the world has seen so far. This statement is based on test results from different browser benchmarks published on the official Opera blog.
As Google Chrome has been the fastest browser for a while and the alpha version of Opera 10.50 caught up quite... Continue Reading 
The latest version of Google Chrome, build 5.0.317.2, brings a new feature to improve the browsing experience when visiting foreign websites. It includes an automatic page translation tool which detects the page language and, if it differs from your browser language, offers to translate it to your language using Google Translate.
When Chrome offers you to translate a site, a blue... Continue Reading 
There is an updated benchmark including Opera 10.50b and Chrome 5.0 here!
A newly released pre-alpha version of Opera promises to radically improve the browser's performance and speed of displaying and loading websites. The official developer website even claims that "[Opera 10.50] is fast, more than 7x faster in SunSpider than Opera 10.10". Since Google Chrome has been the fastest browser... Continue Reading 
Yesterday evening, the Closed Beta of Battlefield Bad Company 2 started. I managed to secure a beta key and get the game installer and immediately started testing. First of all, a few screenshots and performance information, but more information and a video will follow! There is a torrent download for Battlefield Bad Company 2 that's working quite well in contrast... Continue Reading 