Better yet, daydream this: You get your first domain for 70 USD a year and one on the same price for every 10 employees you employ - and you pay 17920 USD extra a year for any extra domain above that.
It's not a waste - from one "new technology" processor you can make 4..16(?) P3-compatible processors, as they are more simple, consist less transistors and even -maybe- you can re-design them a bit better. So, think about 50 USD processors and 2 G potential customers and not about 400 USD processors and 10 M potential customers.
Plus, all those users who *like their machines as they are* and *do not want to migrate to new computer/OS/technology* and *want to keep their system working* might pay for it - to keep their legal Win98 with their legal accounting program running on a Pentum2, as my friend (sure, he also has a P4 laptop), but without noise (plus more RAM, a solid state disk, a CD=>HD replacement?, a passive cooler and a backup in one 200 USD refurbishment package). Maybe a new TFT and mouse, altough he would prefer VNC, I guess.
Yes, they could migrate from 933 Celeron to 1200 Non-Celeron, but then they would need bigger fans and it would cost a lot (you see, they have to pay somebody to replace it, because they can't change it for themself now). And maybe a PSU replace was necessary. And of course, you need to replace your motherboard 3-4 times to migrate from low-end P3 to high-end P4 (crazy, isn't it?).
Yes, some of us Java programmers would not buy it, but maybe lots of Chinese mothers will (would?). And enviromentally educated people like my Fiance (translator) and my sister (lawyer). They don't need anything fast, they said "this is better, I can work 5-10% faster" when I replaced their 200 MHz and 400 MHz CPUs with a 900 MHz and a 1800 MHz. Because - guess what - even the 200 MHz CPU was usually waiting for them or for the disk. And you can develop your Java on servers from a P1 with ssh/Remote Desktop/X/VNC fairly well.
And please imagine a classroom with 24 fan-triplets less than now. And please calculate the difference between 24*200 and 24*1000.
Let's face it, Pentium 3s and ThunderBirds are strong enough to run even Vista with a browser and some office applications, it is enough in itself to code SQL, C or even some Java - we don't really need stronger PC CPUs. Everyone knowns that, that's why they are moving towards Mobile, Media and Multi-core - of course, Vista SP2 might help it to increase the CPU intake. From 4 MHz, we got to 4 GHz - I believe that we use about 75% of the difference to waste.
And yes, I would like to upgrade my old Web server's P3 processors to some faster stuff that is cheaper than gold (in weight) and I don't want to dump the whole server just to upgrade processors (and it's okay for the given traffic). And yes, there are old, slow 9 GB disks inside, and because they are in a RAID and they are SCSI, and the web pages are cached in memory, they will remain there for another 10 years, unless something brakes.
So, it is not a question of "waste of technology" - rather the question of "waste of nature" and "waste of CPU power / electric power / fresh air". And maybe a question of "why we let them create so many incompatible stuff and why we have not rejected all this RAM, CPU and GPU sockets we don't need"? And if we did, why don't we ask them to produce compatible parts with more modern and enviromentally friendly technology? Why do we dump our computers every year instead of using it for 10 years, replacing and upgrading it every two years as it was in 89? Do we remember, when an IBM-compatible PC was modular? And now? We replace the CPU, thus we must replace the motherboard, and then (AT=>ATX=>BTX) the case and the PSU, and yes, the RAM. The PCI cards and the disk can stay.
Is there any chance that they will produce 1-Watt (silent), low-transistor count (cheap) Pentium 2 / Pentium 3 / SDRAM133 replacements with this new technology? Combined with Solid State Disks, plenty much of old hardware could be saved and lots of users (like my fiance or my sister) would be happy with a P2 or P3 class refurbished machine, provided there is at least 256 RAM to run a browser and some office applications. Not to mention thin clients or second/third world countries.
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Better yet, daydream this:
You get your first domain for 70 USD a year and one on the same price for every 10 employees you employ - and you pay 17920 USD extra a year for any extra domain above that.
It's not a waste - from one "new technology" processor you can make 4..16(?) P3-compatible processors, as they are more simple, consist less transistors and even -maybe- you can re-design them a bit better. So, think about 50 USD processors and 2 G potential customers and not about 400 USD processors and 10 M potential customers.
Plus, all those users who *like their machines as they are* and *do not want to migrate to new computer/OS/technology* and *want to keep their system working* might pay for it - to keep their legal Win98 with their legal accounting program running on a Pentum2, as my friend (sure, he also has a P4 laptop), but without noise (plus more RAM, a solid state disk, a CD=>HD replacement?, a passive cooler and a backup in one 200 USD refurbishment package). Maybe a new TFT and mouse, altough he would prefer VNC, I guess.
Yes, they could migrate from 933 Celeron to 1200 Non-Celeron, but then they would need bigger fans and it would cost a lot (you see, they have to pay somebody to replace it, because they can't change it for themself now). And maybe a PSU replace was necessary.
And of course, you need to replace your motherboard 3-4 times to migrate from low-end P3 to high-end P4 (crazy, isn't it?).
Yes, some of us Java programmers would not buy it, but maybe lots of Chinese mothers will (would?).
And enviromentally educated people like my Fiance (translator) and my sister (lawyer). They don't need anything fast, they said "this is better, I can work 5-10% faster" when I replaced their 200 MHz and 400 MHz CPUs with a 900 MHz and a 1800 MHz. Because - guess what - even the 200 MHz CPU was usually waiting for them or for the disk.
And you can develop your Java on servers from a P1 with ssh/Remote Desktop/X/VNC fairly well.
And please imagine a classroom with 24 fan-triplets less than now. And please calculate the difference between 24*200 and 24*1000.
Let's face it, Pentium 3s and ThunderBirds are strong enough to run even Vista with a browser and some office applications, it is enough in itself to code SQL, C or even some Java - we don't really need stronger PC CPUs. Everyone knowns that, that's why they are moving towards Mobile, Media and Multi-core - of course, Vista SP2 might help it to increase the CPU intake.
From 4 MHz, we got to 4 GHz - I believe that we use about 75% of the difference to waste.
And yes, I would like to upgrade my old Web server's P3 processors to some faster stuff that is cheaper than gold (in weight) and I don't want to dump the whole server just to upgrade processors (and it's okay for the given traffic). And yes, there are old, slow 9 GB disks inside, and because they are in a RAID and they are SCSI, and the web pages are cached in memory, they will remain there for another 10 years, unless something brakes.
So, it is not a question of "waste of technology" - rather the question of "waste of nature" and "waste of CPU power / electric power / fresh air".
And maybe a question of "why we let them create so many incompatible stuff and why we have not rejected all this RAM, CPU and GPU sockets we don't need"?
And if we did, why don't we ask them to produce compatible parts with more modern and enviromentally friendly technology?
Why do we dump our computers every year instead of using it for 10 years, replacing and upgrading it every two years as it was in 89? Do we remember, when an IBM-compatible PC was modular?
And now? We replace the CPU, thus we must replace the motherboard, and then (AT=>ATX=>BTX) the case and the PSU, and yes, the RAM. The PCI cards and the disk can stay.
And whose children will clean all this up?
Yep, it's demagogue and it's off the mark.
Men, I need a blog. And a beer. Or a Bed. By.
Is there any chance that they will produce 1-Watt (silent), low-transistor count (cheap) Pentium 2 / Pentium 3 / SDRAM133 replacements with this new technology? Combined with Solid State Disks, plenty much of old hardware could be saved and lots of users (like my fiance or my sister) would be happy with a P2 or P3 class refurbished machine, provided there is at least 256 RAM to run a browser and some office applications.
Not to mention thin clients or second/third world countries.