Post by Miss Perspicacia TickEverest isn't related to AIDA32 in any way, shape or form, other than
the guy who developed AIDA is now Head of Development at Lavalys.
They are mutually exclusive, despite performing a similar function. I
still prefer AIDA, however, as it reveals installation keys.
Not "in any way" related? Miklos, author of AIDA32, gets hired by Lavalys
on April 19, 2004, which obviously was arranged before the announcement.
Lavalys then comes out later with Everest Home and Pro versions on May 3,
2004. Just a coincidence that Miklos is now at Lavalys and now Lavalys has
a product that has a very nearly identical interface and feature set as
AIDA32? Nope. Lavalys only has one other [publicly available] product than
Everest, and Everest came out after they got Miklos. What, you don't think
Miklos is susceptible to money either by Lavalys paying him for his code or
giving him royalties on its sale? I'm sure Miklos wasn't getting much with
his donation scheme for all his hard work.
Yep, the FAQ screenshot for Everest Home shows Licenses and Filetypes are
missing under the Software node in the tree list. However, the FAQ
screenshot for Everest Professional shows all the same nodes under the
Software tree node as AIDA32 EE, including Licenses and Filetypes, along
with a couple new nodes for Custom Programs and File Scanner. To me, it
looks very much like AIDA32 got split between 2 flavors of Everest: Home and
Pro. The Home version of Everest gives you most but not all of AIDA32 but
you have to buy the Pro version to get the rest (along with more features
that got added in Everest beyond what AIDA32 has but the Pro version also
drops some AIDA32 features that they put in the Home version of Everest,
like benchmarks). So AIDA32 EE sits between Everest Home and Everest Pro.
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I wouldn't worry about what she says. She has a history of blowing up
computers in an effort to overclock them.
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