Top videos of 2006

A selection of the best watched videos on vnunet.com

Written by Tom Sanders in California

One Laptop per Child – first working prototype demo
Red Hat's Christopher Blizzards shows off the first working prototype, one week after the device left the factory.

Intel laptop concept designs demonstration
Intel likes toying around with PC and laptop designs to push the imagination and creativity with computer makers. That's why the chipmaker periodically creates concept designs that it will never produce.

Intel Core 2 Duo Launch 
Intel chief executive Paul Otellini launched the Intel Core Duo during a company event at its Santa Clara corporate headquarters.

15 years of Linux: past and future 
Linux on 21 August 2006 turned 15. At Linuxworld, open source luminaries Larry Augustin (VA Software), Dirk Hohndel (Intel), Chris DiBona (Google) Eric Raymond (author of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar") and Jon "maddog" Hall discussed the operating system's past and future.

Fly-by malware installation
If you aren't paranoid about your security online you, you'd better watch this video. If you are, it will only further confirm your fears.

Sun Fire X4500 demonstration
Sun Microsystems in July unveiled three new servers including the Sun Fire X4500: a 4-way AMD Opteron system with up to 24 terabytes of storage. The system's chief architect Andy Bechtolsheim walks us through the system's features. 

Intel's quadcore gaming power 
Why do we need quad-core processors? The answer is as old as the question itself: gaming and video rendering. Rendering a video makes for lousy demonstration, so Intel opted for the game demonstration at its Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco last September.

Apple iTV launch 
Apple is heading for a head-on collision with TiVo and Intel Viiv now that the company plans to unveil its iTV settop box. It is set to launch some time early 2007 under a different name, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said.

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