Posted by
michael
on from the penny-pinching dept.
Lt Wuff writes "CNN has a story about how the newest/fasted/latest and greatest processors aren't selling like Intel and AMD hoped. Maybe people are wising up to the fact that you don't need the fastest processors on the market in order to open AOL..."
Well, bear in mind that most machines are purchased by businesses -- and they follow some weird rules.
Consider the 3-year-old Dell 450 PII on my desk. High end when I got it, low-end now. I don't need to do any heavy processing, but some of the apps I use consume a lot of RAM, and I'm always short of disk. So I requested an upgrade.
It had almost gone through, when my boss told me that I was making things difficult by not requesting a new machine. Computers are amortized over three years (at least by anybody who pays federal taxes), and our IS department takes the attitude that a fully-amortized computer costs more to support than it's worth.
Of course, as soon as I changed my upgrade request to a new computer request, there was a purchasing freeze....
Re:I love when they use the Internet
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Kaz+Riprock
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Even better than the computer companies are the broadband providers that offer "lightning-fast downloads".
Hello! Do you know how fast lightning moves? That's just not even close to ATT Broadband/RCN/@home speeds.
-- Mordor...a magical, mythical land where women are more rare than dragons--but where every man would rather find a dragon
It's cause were all F@CKIN UNEMPLOYED
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43PercentBurnt
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See subject.
-- There will be plenty of time for smoking doobies when your living in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER.
I'm running a Z-80 computer system (1 Mhz) and I was wondering if I should upgrade to the new Z-80B processor. They go 2.5 Mhz, and supposedly really scream. But is the extra speed worth the $4 that the new processor would cost? Thanks.
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Consider the 3-year-old Dell 450 PII on my desk. High end when I got it, low-end now. I don't need to do any heavy processing, but some of the apps I use consume a lot of RAM, and I'm always short of disk. So I requested an upgrade.
It had almost gone through, when my boss told me that I was making things difficult by not requesting a new machine. Computers are amortized over three years (at least by anybody who pays federal taxes), and our IS department takes the attitude that a fully-amortized computer costs more to support than it's worth.
Of course, as soon as I changed my upgrade request to a new computer request, there was a purchasing freeze....
Hello! Do you know how fast lightning moves? That's just not even close to ATT Broadband/RCN/@home speeds.
Mordor...a magical, mythical land where women are more rare than dragons--but where every man would rather find a dragon
See subject.
There will be plenty of time for smoking doobies when your living in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER.
I'm running a Z-80 computer system (1 Mhz) and I was wondering if I should upgrade to the new Z-80B processor. They go 2.5 Mhz, and supposedly really scream. But is the extra speed worth the $4 that the new processor would cost? Thanks.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
.. and what if DOOM3/UT2003 is 75% of all software that you run?
it means youre pretty bad at math.