Geekspeak: April 9, 2001

Geekspeak: April 9, 2001

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Peter Coffee
Peter Coffee
Apr 9, 2001
1 minute read
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Literally penned up in chain-link enclosures, harried teams of hardware hackers labored to produce a working PC from a collection of components during the WinHEC Wars competition at WinHEC last month.

As PCs increasingly come to market as sealed-box appliances, the WinHEC Wars, which were held in Anaheim, Calif., reminded IT buyers that the open PC platform is a Darwinian jungle where every manner of subsystem vendor continually seeks a price/ performance edge.

The elevated hardware requirements of Windows XP, although in some ways merely catching up to the Macintosh, will stimulate the next stage in that evolution.

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