Aero's a CPU hog: Enterprise Desktop blogger Randall C. Kennedy digs a bit deeper into the Vista's slick yet ridiculously processing-power-hungry Aero interface. It "chews up more CPU cycles (an average of 22%) with desktop composition enabled than with it disabled. In other words, turn on the "bling" and you toss nearly a quarter of your CPU bandwidth out the window." Maybe that's why HP is seemingly struggling Aero’s a CPU hog: Enterprise Desktop blogger Randall C. Kennedy digs a bit deeper into the Vista’s slick yet ridiculously processing-power-hungry Aero interface. It “chews up more CPU cycles (an average of 22%) with desktop composition enabled than with it disabled. In other words, turn on the “bling” and you toss nearly a quarter of your CPU bandwidth out the window.” Maybe that’s why HP is seemingly struggling to develop a PC that comes with Vista and also complies with Energy Star 4.0.Taking on Dell’s rugged laptop: Stephanie Bruzzese is really putting Dell’s resilient Latitude ATG through the wringer in an effort to see how truly rugged it is. “Usually when you grab the sides of a laptop screen with both hands and try to twist it, you get a decent amount of bend. But I hardly got any bend at all with the Dell, even when I twisted just about as hard as I could.” The laptop’s not without it’s flaws, though. Read her entry and find out why.Linus on GPLv3: Over in Open Sources, Matt Asay shares some comments from the king penguin himself, Linus Torvalds, on his reasons for not supporting GPLv3. Among them, he cites the unknown issues (“I would be totally crazy to accept a license for my code sight unseen.”); technical problems in the draft; and the fact that ” the GPLv3 drafts have not been about developing code in the open, they’ve been about what you can do with that code.” Technology Industry