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Two Approaches to the Next-Generation Desktop

Posted by timothy on from the neck-and-neck-and-gizzard dept.

puppetman writes: "Tom's Hardware has a review up of a pre-production P4/2666 using 533 mhz Rambus memory (and shows it stomping the competition). The Pentium 4 needs memory bandwidth, and DDR doesn't supply it. Or does it? Anandtech, ironically, has a preview of the E7500 chipset from Intel - dual channel DDR with support for up to 16 gig of RAM. With a new bus architecture, this looks perfect for high-load databases that need wide pipes to hard-drives, memory, and ethernet. Both of these technologies look great for mid-range database servers. Anandtech claims that dual DDR200 will provide 3.2 gig/second bandwidth, where Tom claims that DDR266 (single channel) offers only 2.1 gig/second. Intel is sure hedging their bets. I wonder what AMD has up their sleeves."

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  1. COOL! by prizzznecious · · Score: 0, Funny

    Maybe now I'll be able to run XP at an acceptable speed! At least until Microsoft tells me not to!

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  2. Photoshop by spookysuicide · · Score: 4, Funny

    But you know there is at least one photoshop filter that would run faster on a 1ghz g4 and i'm sure we'll see steve jobs demonstrating it at macworld 2004 proving that macs are still twice as fast. :)

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    1. Re:Photoshop by 2nd+Post! · · Score: 4, Funny

      Maybe he'll start comparing against itself!

      I mean, what better way to encourage people to upgrade from 'old' iMacs to 'new' iMacs when you show them the ability to burn DVD data at 4x the speed?

      'With our old iMac you were able to burn a DVD in real time, which was incredible, but that still took forever. 90 minutes of video would take over your computer for too long, so we fixed that. With the new 1.4GHz processors, you can encode your DVDs at four times the speed. You can burn your home movies, 90 minutes of video, in just twenty minutes. Isn't that wonderful?
      We've also added the capability of storing up to three hours of video on a DVD. That's 180 minutes of video, and it still only takes 45 minutes to burn. We think you'll find this very exciting. Marvelous.'

      Something like that. Can't you just hear him saying something like that?

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  3. Interesting number 2666 by alefbet · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't know about anyone else, but I'm a bit worried about the sign of the beast coming up on my future BIOS screen everytime I reboot. I suppose it's a fitting follow-up to a blue screen of death.

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  4. Lets take the wayback machine: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "640k should be enough for anyone"