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Quad Core Chips From Intel and AMD
lubricated writes "According to the San Fransisco Chronicle, in an effort to one-up AMD, Intel will be coming out with 4 core cpu's in 2007." From the article: "Chips with two cores have been the latest rage, with both Intel and AMD selling those microprocessors as their high-end offering. Apple Computer Inc.'s new iMac, which started selling last month, uses the dual-core chip ... Not to be outdone, Randy Allen, AMD's corporate vice president of server and workstation division, said Friday that his firm is working its own quad-core processor for release next year."
It's amazing how bad "educated" people can be with grammer and punctuation. The apostrophe and comma are probably the two most misused punctuation elements - but seriously, if you're going to post on slashdot and have anyone take you seriously you need to learn to use them properly. CPU is an acronym for Central Processing Unit. When you pluralize that phrase, you add an S to the end of unit. What you wrote is "Central Processing Unit's" ... and those CPUs sure aren't owning anything in what you said.
I just built a new computer specs will be posted below. I plan on building another in 2 years so I suppose by the time I do there will be a reason to own a quad core cpu but still...why do they have to make people who just got a new box feel like total ass by saying stuff like this...? Why not wait till a couple months before release to start their propaganda wars thus allowing people like me to be happy with my purchase? Sure I should be used to it by now but damnit im not! AMD 4800+ Dual Core Dual (SLI) nVidia 7800 GTX's (512mb) 2 GIGS Corsair XMS PRO DDR 1 TB Raid Array Liquid Cooled and Overclocked Now it all feels useless and im just gonna throw it in the garbage!