if your a car driver and your job is to drive a certain amount of miles or a distance by the end of the week (a deadline) then being able to have a fast cpu is nice (along with a fast system in all regards). there is the down side in production of products though...speed. if you make something that runs fast on your system, then dust off the 'old' p166 and run it, you might want to cry. its for this reason that developers hope for faster systems as well...the ability to do more. it may seem an excuse for slipshod inefficient code, and sometimes is...but there is also a certain ability gained with faster computers in general.
Not fully compatible with what? With an overly expensive RAM architecture? guilty as charged.
looking at the short term eh? We all see how the technology business has been growing by leaps and bounds; what else is there to look at? we both know in 10 years we will laugh at the processor speeds of todays fastest commercial solutions; do i need a computer to last as long as a car? sure it would be nice, but if you were buying a Model T and you knew in 5 years they would have cars that could go 300% faster and they would raise the speed limit on all roads by 30mph...would you care about long lasting?
if your looking for a computer, you can get an Athlon 700 or so, total machine, for under $900 easy, and still have it pretty nicely configured. go for Intel's solution, we are talking $1300+...for me, thats not a tough choice. the king is dead, long live the king.
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bob you sound bitter. some kid steal your job?
last time i was in college, i missed the html degree signup sheet....damn.
are you joking? spitfire will beat CuPIII much less celeron2.
if your a car driver and your job is to drive a certain amount of miles or a distance by the end of the week (a deadline) then being able to have a fast cpu is nice (along with a fast system in all regards). there is the down side in production of products though...speed. if you make something that runs fast on your system, then dust off the 'old' p166 and run it, you might want to cry. its for this reason that developers hope for faster systems as well...the ability to do more. it may seem an excuse for slipshod inefficient code, and sometimes is...but there is also a certain ability gained with faster computers in general.
Not fully compatible with what? With an overly expensive RAM architecture? guilty as charged.
...for me, thats not a tough choice. the king is dead, long live the king.
looking at the short term eh? We all see how the technology business has been growing by leaps and bounds; what else is there to look at? we both know in 10 years we will laugh at the processor speeds of todays fastest commercial solutions; do i need a computer to last as long as a car? sure it would be nice, but if you were buying a Model T and you knew in 5 years they would have cars that could go 300% faster and they would raise the speed limit on all roads by 30mph...would you care about long lasting?
if your looking for a computer, you can get an Athlon 700 or so, total machine, for under $900 easy, and still have it pretty nicely configured. go for Intel's solution, we are talking $1300+