This was a few weeks (or maybe months...) ago, checking a bunch of the local computer stores (chains, a few of the smaller shops in town) for prices on the boxed PII and PIII processors...
I think I remember the PIII prices being ~$270 and the PII's being ~$290 at the time... Actually, I'm sure it was a few months ago. Anyways, there wasn't a significant differance in price over the week or two I was looking (I think the online prices were about $20-$30 less for the PIII and maybe $10 less for the PII), so I decided to go ahead w/ the PIII.
I figured, "What do I have to lose? $20 and the nonexistance of an extra 'I'?"
BTW: I generally use CNet's shopper.com, so I'm not sure if it's price searches are generally better or worse than PriceWatch...
AC says: "the diffrence between piii's and pii's at the same speed is almost zero"
except that because of the economics of volume production, at least a few weeks ago, every 450 MHz PII I found was about $20 or so more than the 450-PIII at the same shop... if the PII's had been significantly cheaper, I would have gotten that (or a celery...)
Umm... About those 450 MHz PIII's - I can assure you they exist: I typed this comment on a dual-processor box with two of them.
Now, the question still stands: why didn't they do any tests with a 450 PIII machine? I would be interested in seeing a comparison of their results with PIII's at the same clock speed...
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Do you agree that Microsoft has monopoly power and that consumers have been harmed? * 9473 responses 33% Yes. 33% It has monopoly power, but no one has been hurt. 34% No.
What should happen? * 9903 responses 16% Microsoft should be broken up. 11% The company should settle. 2% The government should oversee the company. 13% The company should be forced to license its OS source code. 15% It should be fined and agree not to use monopoly power. 44% Nothing should change.
There was an article in the May 1998 issue of MIT Technology Review which had a sample story called "Betrayal" (very original name) written by Brutus...
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Wait... no, I don't want it to land in my back yard. BAADDD Space Fungus. Back. BACK!!! *CHOMP*
I'd moderate you up, but I just used my last moderator point on another "f1r57 p057!" AC...
Better luck next time ;)
This was a few weeks (or maybe months...) ago, checking a bunch of the local computer stores (chains, a few of the smaller shops in town) for prices on the boxed PII and PIII processors...
I think I remember the PIII prices being ~$270 and the PII's being ~$290 at the time... Actually, I'm sure it was a few months ago. Anyways, there wasn't a significant differance in price over the week or two I was looking (I think the online prices were about $20-$30 less for the PIII and maybe $10 less for the PII), so I decided to go ahead w/ the PIII.
I figured, "What do I have to lose? $20 and the nonexistance of an extra 'I'?"
BTW: I generally use CNet's shopper.com, so I'm not sure if it's price searches are generally better or worse than PriceWatch...
AC says: "the diffrence between piii's and pii's at the same speed is almost zero"
except that because of the economics of volume production, at least a few weeks ago, every 450 MHz PII I found was about $20 or so more than the 450-PIII at the same shop... if the PII's had been significantly cheaper, I would have gotten that (or a celery...)
Umm... About those 450 MHz PIII's - I can assure you they exist: I typed this comment on a dual-processor box with two of them.
Now, the question still stands: why didn't they do any tests with a 450 PIII machine? I would be interested in seeing a comparison of their results with PIII's at the same clock speed...
I bet The Slashdot Crew will be getting a lot of spam from people trying to win AIBO's over the next few days...
BTW: I will not do this, but I'm sure a bunch of AC's already have...
Do you agree that Microsoft has monopoly power and that consumers have been harmed?
* 9473 responses
33% Yes.
33% It has monopoly power, but no one has been hurt.
34% No.
What should happen?
* 9903 responses
16% Microsoft should be broken up.
11% The company should settle.
2% The government should oversee the company.
13% The company should be forced to license its OS source code.
15% It should be fined and agree not to use monopoly power.
44% Nothing should change.
He states, "...we continue to add features on an ongoing basis..."
Hehe... "features"
Ummm... Logitech ACTUALLY makes gamer mice... I thought it was pretty funny when I saw them on the Logitech web page a while back.
Logitech Gaming Mouse @ http://www.logitech.com/us/products/gm10_100.html
BTW, look at the "features" it has... no different from any other 3-button mouse.
Think how bland our food would be without any spices!!!
If you're interested, here's what the original author has to say to the plagerism of his work (and the editing out of the first half):
"Hang the Information Highwayman!"n .HTML
http://www.gsm.cornell.edu/staff/Gene/Highwayma
There was an article in the May 1998 issue of MIT Technology Review which had a sample story called "Betrayal" (very original name) written by Brutus...
Here's the link: http://www.techreview.com/a rticles/ma98/bringsjord.html
Heck... My car gets ~403,200 rods/hogshead!