Nintendo Switch still a hype in 2018.

The Nintendo Switch with blue and red handles

It was an instant hit when the Nintendo Switch was released on 3 March 2017. Now; in 2018; the game console still rocks. Nintendo's Switch has become a milestone in the gaming world.

The Switch is the first game computer that can be played on TV and as a portable game console. It became a success. In the Nintendo Switch you find a pieces of every modern game console. It has a piece of the Game Boy, the Wii and the PlayStation.

A little bit of history
The gadget of the nineties was the Game Boy. A portable gaming computer that ensured years of game fun, a lot of empty batteries, dislocated thumbs and magnificent financial results for Nintendo. The only withdraw that the popular Game Boy has that the game where simple in comparison with the gaming consoles on TV. This withdraw is now totally eliminated with the Nintendo Swich of the Japanese producers.

First hybrid gaming console
The Nintendo Switch is the first hybrid gaming console. You can plug them in to the television like a traditional console or use it as a tablet version in your hands. You can even switch the modus and continue to play the game you was on. This give the gamer a lot of perspectives. Playing a game on the backseat of the car, in the train, on vacation, in the bedroom or on the sofa beside your lover who watches television.

The reinventing of the game console
Nintendo claims that they had reinvent the game console. Some has their doubts but the concept to make a game console that can be played on the television or as a stand alone console is just genial. It's certainly something else than the Playstation and Xbox.

Social happen
Nintendo trays to make gaming a social happen. This was already a fact with the Wii when we where swinging our arms and legs in front of our televisions when where playing virtual tennis, football our doing karaoke nights. The Nintendo Switch will do the same in our living room with some party games. With two handles that can be disconnected from the Nintendo Switch, you can do a dual and shoot like cowboys, milk a cow, do a boxing match or fight each other with samurai swords without splashes of real blood on the wall. The Nintendo Switch is one computer with a lot of options and opportunities.

Contras
Off course the Nintendo Switch has some wither's. The console doesn't score like the best when it comes to power. This because you can play on the Nintendo Switch as a portable console it can not hold big CPU's and RAM Memory compared with the Playstation 4 or the Xbox One.

And Nintendo does not yet offer many game title on the Switch console. We hope that this will change because the Wii had the same problem. The Wii eventually didn't reach the big mass because of the few game titles.

The diehard gamers do not have enough with the Switch. And with it's 330 Euro it's a bit to pricey to use it as a second game console beside an Xbox or a Playstation that has the full capacity in power and the lack of many game titles.

Conclusion
Despite the contras the Nintendo Switch has been a hype from the moment it was released in March 2017. And it continues with already 10 million units soled in just 9 months.

Microsoft Windows 8, a 128 bit platform! Is it going to be real or is it just a hype or a rumor?

The start screen in Windows 8

Windows 7 just arrived in 2010 and the workers of Microsoft are already busy making a better operating system. It will be known as Windows 8, what else did you expect?

128 bit?!
XP was known as a 32 bit operation system, Windows 7 made 64 bit the standard but Microsoft has plans to make the Windows 8 OS a 128 bit platform.
Here for, your computer has to have an 128 bit architecture to manage the data processes. The question is what for CPU it need to drive on. Will it be a single core 128 bit processor or do you need several 64 bit cores. No panic the 128 bit processor already exists.

What does it means in reality?
First you need more RAM Chips. And new software that is 128 bit compatible including Microsoft's own Office. Now a day there is no such a software available for the masses. Software companies has just made their software 64 bit compatible for Windows 7. Another investment for a 128 bit version of their software seems a little too far.

How to use Windows 8? The look and the feeling of Windows 8?
When you start your Windows 8 computer it starts very fast and you can log in with your Hotmail account. When logged in you get the start screen, not the usual screen with the Windows start screen and the task bar. Instead you get a screen with big icons that you can arrange. The big icons tell you a lot stuff like how the weather is, if you have new mails with additional information of who the mail is and the subject.

Where is my usual desktop?
On the start screen you can find the big icon 'Desktop'. By clicking it you get the normal desktop screen like you have in Windows 7.

When does Microsoft Windows 8 arrive?
According to some rumors it will be 2012 until we can expect a public beta version. The question is: will the hardware be good enough adapted to the needs of the new OS. Are do we have to reverse the question: will the new OS be ready in 2012? An ex-Microsoft employee said on a French blog: www.blog.ma-config.com that Windows 8 RTM will be released on Friday, July 1 in 2011. There are no release dates so far for Windows Server 2012 and Office 2012. We hope to test the beta version in 2010.


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