July 24th, 2009

Two giant companies, Microsoft and Intel, are cooperating to make Windows 7 OS works better. It is created to have the ability to identify resources and break up application processing under multiple chip shores and threads. Microsoft uses the multithreaded and multicore chips from Intel to make the application performing faster.

According to the Intel’s alliance manager, Joakim Lialias, the Windows 7 features with SMT that will give it better performance on hyperthreaded, multicore Intel processors. This new feature added to the Windows 7 to help the users to break up tasks like video encoding and image filtering using multiple task-execution threads. Moreover, the two companies are also working together to make the Windows 7 to boot and shut down faster. It uses the technology of chips based on the Nehalem micro architecture that can make the driver and BIOS-level increasing and will result in the improvement of the start, shut-down, sleep and resume times.

Well, most PCs nowadays are using the Intel chips and Microsoft’s Windows operating system. It makes the collaboration of the Microsoft and Intel can give benefits to the PC world. They have been working together for more than 20 years to provide the most responsive compute experience to the computer users.

If you are planning to buy a laptop, then it is the right time because the laptop price is considered low. The laptop price is closed under US $300. There are some retailers that offer promotional prices for some laptop products.
Wal-Mart is one of the retailers that offers promotional prices for the laptop products. In the Wal-Mart website, starting from July 26, they will sell Compaq laptop for only $298.

The laptop is Compaq Presario CQ60-419WM from Hewlett-Packard. This laptop is using Windows Vista. It features 15.6-inch screen, 3Gb of RAM, a
160 GB hard drive, Nvidia’s GeForce 8200M integrated graphics, and a DVD-RW drive. With the low price offered, the laptop will certainly attract the public attraction. In the website, it wasn’t explained whether the laptop will be in offline store or online store.

Besides the offering from Wal-Mart, Best Buy also offers Acer laptop for only $299. It is powered by a single-core AMD Athlon 64 and run Windows Vista. After it was announced in the market, it sold out in quick. However, the cheapest netbook is offered by the Wal-Mart which is Asus Eee  PC900HD which is only sold for $238.