if all you do is read email and run trivial processing tasks (the largest customer base) there's no meaningful metric because things have been fast enough for a long time now.
If you're a Mac or Linux user, yeah. On Windows, they have this weird ritual called "virus scanning" that is able to consume arbitrary amounts of CPU time and RAM. Apparently this protects their computer from being possessed by evil spirits from beyond the internets or some such.
But think about it. No matter how much one upgrades, the "virus scanning" ritual can still consume all the CPU time and main memory left, so what's the point of upgrading? Virus scanner going multi-thread?
In secondary schools in Hong Kong, we never have graphing calculators, neither for class nor for exam. What we usually have is a CASIO fx-3650P or if you want to pay cheap like me, a Sharp EL-506V. If you can't even draw high school level 2d graph by hand yourself, then your maths skill is just not on par. If you really need to draw complex 3d graph or such in university, then you have a full-fledged computer, with MATLAB or Mathematica, available after class.
Could somebody tell me what force you guys in America needs graphing calculator in class in the first place?
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If it can do word processing, browse the internet and maybe spreadsheets... and its $35, I'll buy one.
But it can't run flash games!
If you're a Mac or Linux user, yeah. On Windows, they have this weird ritual called "virus scanning" that is able to consume arbitrary amounts of CPU time and RAM. Apparently this protects their computer from being possessed by evil spirits from beyond the internets or some such.
But think about it. No matter how much one upgrades, the "virus scanning" ritual can still consume all the CPU time and main memory left, so what's the point of upgrading? Virus scanner going multi-thread?
In secondary schools in Hong Kong, we never have graphing calculators, neither for class nor for exam. What we usually have is a CASIO fx-3650P or if you want to pay cheap like me, a Sharp EL-506V. If you can't even draw high school level 2d graph by hand yourself, then your maths skill is just not on par. If you really need to draw complex 3d graph or such in university, then you have a full-fledged computer, with MATLAB or Mathematica, available after class.
Could somebody tell me what force you guys in America needs graphing calculator in class in the first place?