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Emachines 64-bit Athlons Now On Sale
tomhudson writes "According to zdnet,
emachines, the company geeks like to make fun of, finally has a toy we'd all like to get for Xmas -- an Athlon64 on the cheap :-)"
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Dont knock packard bell, they made the best damn PC this side of tandy, and it came with a killer software pack including komander keen!
$1299 is cheap? Since when? Is it 1998 again? This thing is practically bare-bones! Call me when they're $699. Until then I'll keep drooling over a G5 (which is only a few hundred dollars more, with TONS more stuff).
The Emachine is much more useful than the Mac, as it can run a hellofalot more software.
The last time this was mentioned, the retort came from a Mac user listing all the wonderful software they could use. Almost all of the software packages listed were web sites. Not sites where you could download software: just web sites. "I can do anything at all on the Mac: I can go to Google! Yahoo! wow!"
'cept for Linux. Fuckwit.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/howtobuy/ default.asp
Windows XP 64-bit is already made -- for the Itanium. You either get to wait for them to port it to the Athlon64, or you get to find another one.
REM Old programmers don't die. They just GOSUB without RETURN.
..just imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!!!
What is a Beowulf cluster anyway? I'd like to know.
Great. I was really pissed when I learned that my lame 32Bit CPU couldn't make use of as much RAM as a 64Bit CPU!
BTW... will Games work faster?
I've been able to play SWG and the new Dark Age of Camelot expansion with good results.
If you would call scaring off any chance of ever losing your virginity "good results", then yeah, I can see that. Moron.
So you work at Best Buy? Okay, I know this is totally offtopic (hence AC), but I have to tell you my Best Buy story.
A couple years ago, I was building my first computer, with a 1.4 GHz Athlon and a DFI motherboard. The place I got them, Delta Computers (don't EVER do business with those retards), gave me a heatsink with an extremely loud fan. After using this system for a while, I decided to replace the heatsink/fan with something quieter.
Why I went to Best Buy, I don't know, but I did, and I went over to the Antec shelf to see what they had. The only AMD-compatible model said it was rated for 1.2 GHz, so I figured I'd go somewhere else, but just for kicks I asked the sales kid if he thought it would be safe to use on a 1.4 GHz chip. He said, and I quote, "Well, why don't you try it and see, and if it doesn't work, bring it back?"
This being Slashdot, I don't feel as though I have to exlpain the ridiculousness of this statement. Suffice it to say, I haven't returned to Best Buy since.
HP consumer-level machines suck too.