Friday, December 29, 2006

iTunes 7.0.2 takes up 100% CPU when downloading?  [Digg.com This!]

This is something I've noticed with previous version of iTunes for Windows, but 7.0.2 seems especially bad. Why should downloading one file cause iTunes to max out my Athlon 3200+ CPU??



As soon as the file has finished transferring iTunes resumes low CPU usage:

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Fanboy Christmas Wishlist  [Digg.com This!]

Here's the start of my fanboy Christmas wishlist.. Comment if you'd like to add your own!

Digg Fanboy Wishlist

1. Kevin Rose distributes $60m among users
2. Netscape admits to being a cheap clone of Digg
3. Diggnation moves to daily shows
4. Lala co-hosts Diggnation... in fact, replaces Kevin/Alex

PS3 Fanboy Wishlist

1. Someone takes the PS3 seriously (anyone...)
2. Developers realise writing code for 8 processing units is actually easy
3. Wii fanboys get Wii Tennis Elbow and cannot comment on Digg
4. Sony decide they're not selling the PS3 at enough of a loss and drop price to $200

Microsoft Fanboy Wishlist

1. Mac owners stop being smug about lack of malware for OSX
2. Mac owners think Windows is shit, but still buy it (done)
3. Apple move hardware and essentially become a PC (done)
4. Vista works on their mediocre hardware and doesn't take up 10 GB to install

Apple Fanboy Wishlist

1. Microsoft release Zune in colour associated with shit (done)
2. iMobile/iPhone/iWhatever released for $99 and is better than a Treo/Blackberry
3. OSX released for all PCs... and it works with the millions of hardware configurations
4. Apple rumour sites are in fact well informed
5. All products everywhere come with shiny white plastic cases

Wii Fanboy Wishlist

1. PS3 becomes huge failure (done?)
2. Nintendo admit fault in wiimote wrist strap, replace "my broken 50" HDTV"