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At last...

By Paul van der Lingen Posted Tuesday 26th June 2007 13:00 GMT

finally, a computer with enough grunt to run Vista smoothly.

Chess playing ??

By Ian Bush Posted Tuesday 26th June 2007 13:49 GMT

Speaking as one of the guys who will program this beastie at Daresbury Lord only knows why the reference to chess is in there. The relationship of BG/P to Deep Blue is at very best distant to say the least,

Ian

IBM says it's Deep Blue's progeny

By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 26th June 2007 14:25 GMT

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21527.wss

re: Chess playing??

By Tony Posted Tuesday 26th June 2007 15:57 GMT

You mean it won't be backwards compatible?

Vista?

By Steven Raith Posted Tuesday 26th June 2007 19:52 GMT

"finally, a computer with enough grunt to run Vista smoothly."

I see no mention of it supporting DX9.0 in the hardware, so it might not run the Aero/Glass thingy though...

re: IBM says it's Deep Blue's progeny

By Ian Bush Posted Wednesday 27th June 2007 07:12 GMT

OK. According to that criterion an XT4 is related to the pentium II + ethernet

Beowulf cluster we had here all those years ago. But then again I should have expected such a thing from a press release.