
Original Link: https://www.anandtech.com/show/3103
I know, I'm taking the title thing too far, this will be the last one I promise.
The Mac article is done and has been done for a while, the publication date is October 8th. I pushed it so far back so I could hopefully have more Mac articles done, giving you all a nice continuum of Mac articles for a while; unfortunately things don't always work as planned. At this point ATI has been the most cooperative when it comes to supporting the Mac section; they've always been good to send me Mac related products and later this month I will be making a trip up to ATI's Marlborough, MA offices to talk to their Mac team about what they're working on. NVIDIA on the other hand has been far less helpful, I've been requesting their new 6800 Ultra DDL since before the wedding and have yet to receive anything firm. I will get through to them, it's just going to take a little more time. One of the first product-review related articles will be a GPU roundup, I just need NVIDIA to cooperate so I can actually make it happen.
Next up: hard drives. I told you all I was going to work on a follow-up RAID article before I got married and I meant it, but what I wasn't prepared for was how massive the project was going to get. The innocent little RAID article has now turned into a massive set of HDD Guides, about 10 in all, to be published starting the end of this month and continuously throughout the end of this year. What's going to be covered? Everything. Desktop, gaming, server performance, SATA, ATA, SCSI, controllers, RAID, everything. The project is so big that I had to split it up, like I said, into around 10 individual articles or guides (not sure which I'm going to call them yet). I have already put in requests with all of the hard drive manufacturers and I have already started receiving drives. Controllers have also been requested and they will hopefully be fulfilled soon. I expect to start initial benchmarking by the end of next week; I'm waiting for some more motherboards and CPUs to arrive at our place here in Branford before I can start benchmarking.
Over my blog hiatus I also brought on a new editor to AnandTech, he's someone that most of you have probably already heard of and he'll be contributing content about once a month. More on him later...
This month should be relatively interesting, there are a couple of NDAs coming up that you'll hear more about in the coming weeks.
Take care and enjoy the weekend.