1.3GHz Duron Arrives

zebadee writes: "Tom's Hardware has the news that AMD have released a 1.3GHz Duron to the "mainstream PC market" that has been optimised for use with WindowsXP. The article also asks 'why haven't AMD gone with the MHz doesn't equal performance as they have done with the new XP/MP chips, as it would be assumed the market for these will be consumers who don't generally look at benchmark figures?' More information can be found at the AMD website."

Comments

1.3 GHz . . . Hmm . . .

[Anonymous Coward]

Guess that's about a "performance index" of about 2 GHz, right?

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Size Doesn't Equal Performance

[Anonymous Coward]

The reason I tell chicks my dick is 10" (PR) long is that my dick is being marketed against those of Leroy and Stan. This has the effect of Leroy and Stan's dicks being less satisfying at equivalent lengths. 3" of my penis would be more satisfying, for most women, then a 10" Leroy penis. To counter this unfair length advantage, I came up with "PR" (Penis Ratio) numbers to show that my dick performs equivalently to a longer dock. Of course, once women learn to take advantage of Leroy's "architecture" (remember when John Holmes hit the scene?), I might have to push those ratings down.

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This has to be seen, and I've karma to burn, so :

[Pituritus Ani]

The reason I tell chicks my dick is 10" (PR) long is that my dick is being marketed against those of Leroy and Stan. This has the effect of Leroy and Stan's dicks being less satisfying at equivalent lengths. 3" of my penis would be more satisfying, for most women, then a 10" Leroy penis. To counter this unfair length advantage, I came up with "PR" (Penis Ratio) numbers to show that my dick performs equivalently to a longer dick. Of course, once women learn to take advantage of Leroy's "architecture" (remember when John Holmes hit the scene?), I might have to push those ratings down.

Props to the original poster at -1

Re:"Optimized" for WinXP??

[pclminion]

I remember an old story (can't remember the source, so I'll paraphrase):

One day, the makers of a processor for a particular computer system decided to be developers for a day, and do some profiling. They found a particular sequence of several instructions that was being executed quite often, and they figured they could speed up the entire system by adding an instruction to the CPU that carried out that particular operation in fewer clock cycles.

They did their redesign, and tested the new system. There was no speedup.

They had optimized the operating system's idle loop.

Re:What?! [on/off topic]

[Sj0]

I can sympathise with that guy though. I read the entire thread, and while he comes off badly, he has a valid point.

It's like;

"my USB cable modem doesn't work under XP. It works under 2000, NT, 98, 95, and ME."

"You should buy another USB port."

"but it's not a hardware problem. It works under every other MS OS."

"You should buy a new USB cable modem."

"But it's not hardware, it's XP. I've established that."

"Try the drivers. Probably never worked under XP."

"But Microsoft Certified them. They've tested the drivers, and the drivers worked, according to them."

"Yeah, probably the drivers."

"But it's not. The fact that the modem works under 2000 proves it. Besides, if it didn't work, and MS certified it, then MS is at fault anyway..."

"You're being blind here. It's the drivers."

"Listen, fucknut, it can't be the drivers. It can't be the hardware. It must be XP. I'm asking for suggestions on how I could get XP to work with my cable modem."

"You're being blind, retard, it's obviously the drivers! Sometimes manufacturers fuck up. Get over it."

"That's it. This conversation is over. I just returned XP and am using 98 again."

Interesting read(and quite humorous), since everybody else came off as calm, but the fact remains, the process of elimination did point to XP, and everybody kept on insisting that he should run out and buy more hardware.

I also understand why he was pissed off though. He went out and paid 200 bucks for XP, and it didn't work as advertised. The fact that people blamed his hardware for some reason only made the situation worse.