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Pentium 4 2.8Ghz Review
Alex Behrens writes "Hardware-Unlimited, part of the 3D-Unlimited Network, has posted a review of the Pentium 4 2.8Ghz! The review includes all the latest benchmarks and information about the final Pentium 4 processor before we hit the 3Ghz mark. Check it out!"
It was only a few ours that I heard intel were releasing a errrmm.. 2.8GHz chip
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Reviews of hardware come from pretty much the same half-dozen review sites every time. How about this idea?
When a review of a "new release" hits one site, wait 24 hours for all of them to release reviews then link it in one article?
You could even time it, considering many of the sites do "previews" that say something along the lines of "the NDA will expire on XX/YY, until then..." Sort of gives you a clue when the full review is coming out.
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Slashdot jumped the shark when;
(a) When they switched to a "pay for no ads" service
(b) When they posted a dupe story within a six hour period
(c) When they started displaying those huge ads
(d) When they started showing MS ads in those banners
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I can understand if Slashdot needs to flaunt its redundant, fail-proof system of posting, but jeez, we only need to see the redundant systems when the primary ones fail... Stop the double posting, already!
The whole problem here is that Taco doesn't read his own site anymore. He just assumes that whatever he posts coudln't possibly have been put up already by anyone else. If you disagree with me, just look back at all the redundant posts in the past and you'll notice that the second poster is always the supreme leader himself...
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
It seems to me that processor speeds have relly shot up in the last 6 months. Before, there was always a nice tie between the advances in processor speed and the extra needs of Windows. This arrangment worked well for both parties in that everyone felt they had to have both to be right with the world. Has Intel (and AMD) now said to heck with MS we're going to put all the speed we can into our machines? Or, are we seeing a MHz race between Intel and AMD? With a viable competitor, Intel can no longer trickle out improvments at their own pace, they have to deal with someone else matching and exceeding their pace. What does this bode for the future of processors?
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They forgot the exclamation !! points in the first one!!!!
You mean Intel has a 2.8 GHz processor out? Sorry, I'm a little slow.
Clearly they used a Pentium 4 (jingle) to double post this quick!
Today, Intel proudly announced their new dual Pentium 2.8GHz processors.
Yeah, they'll probably be much happier with the discussion in this one. :-)
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Umm...the article makes a rather curious statement about Moore's Law.
12 months ago - 2.0GHZ
Now - 2.8GHz
Fairly soon - 3.0 GHZ
Where is Moore's Law? How does fairly soon translate to 4GH?
c'mon folks, this info is important...
;-P
i mean, just look at the kind of info we get from page 5 of the linked review:
The video card is still throttling the higher resolutions...
blah blah blah...
We are also nearing 300 frames per second at the lowest resolutions...
blah blah blah, wait for it, because the paragraph ends...
meaning that the Pentium 4 running at 2.8Ghz is really fast.
i mean c'mon folks, could you make it through the day without this kind of insightful, probing journalism?
i expect this kind of devastating information to be important to us on slashdot!
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So the geeky chicks will come over your house to play with your computer?
"It's about all we can do right now," CmdrTaco said in an interview Monday morning. "We're hoping to get a new shipment of karma in within the next few days, but until then we're gonna have to just keep posting trollbait." Mr. Taco refused to comment on rumors that the low-quality postings were in any way related to the recent spate of coffee-machine breakdowns at slashdot.
Stay tuned for further developments.
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They aren't. AMD made a paper release: they claimed the chip had been released to try to one-up Intel, but they won't be ready to put it into production until sometime next month; this is the exact same trick Intel used to pull when it was P3 vs. Athlon (of course, the zealots who used to whine a bitch then are notably quiet now).
Of course, most rational people ignore such 'releases' as marketting gimmicks whether they be prepetrated by Intel or AMD; the real release of the AthlonXP 2400+ and 2600+ won't be until next month. AMD's lost the speed game... until next quarter when it releases the hammers. Whoopdedo. I'm sure /. will celebraet.
To have "jumped the shark" pretty much means to have "gone to hell"
Mmmm, not quite. The point at which something has jummped the shark is that precise moment where you know that the 'golden days' are over. You know that from that point, it's all downhill.
There's a good web site about jumping the shark as applied to TV shows here.