haha the average Joe is thinking all that? I don't know where you live, but the average Joe here is still buying HP's from Wal-Mart and could give a shit what CPU it has (assuming they even know what a CPU is) as long as it has lots of really cool software they'll never use and comes with a monitor (actually they call them "screens") and a FREE PRINTER! WOW!
hehe I love how people "let things slip" like that. It's probably bs. Just like someone from Lucent let it "slip" that they might be having to file bankruptcy, then now suddenly ISPs find out that it's going to cost them thousands of $'s in hardware and software upgrades and maintenance contracts to upgrade to v.92. I think someone just let it slip so people would think they were in such bad shape they had to start charging for things that have been free for years by all the companies they've gobbled up.
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I've never used Epox because I've never heard much good about them. I really like the MSI (microstar.com.tw) boards. Only problem I've ever had with them is the built in sound kinda sucks and almost every mb they make has it. The sound works ok, just a bitch to setup the drivers sometimes.
I can't help but think (hope) that someday in the not so distant future this will backfire on MS. Now that we have all this extra hardware power would be the perfect time for someone to come up with an OS that isn't bloated. It wouldn't be easy, but with the right marketing scheme and support from major software vendors it could be done.
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haha the average Joe is thinking all that? I don't know where you live, but the average Joe here is still buying HP's from Wal-Mart and could give a shit what CPU it has (assuming they even know what a CPU is) as long as it has lots of really cool software they'll never use and comes with a monitor (actually they call them "screens") and a FREE PRINTER! WOW!
hehe I love how people "let things slip" like that. It's probably bs. Just like someone from Lucent let it "slip" that they might be having to file bankruptcy, then now suddenly ISPs find out that it's going to cost them thousands of $'s in hardware and software upgrades and maintenance contracts to upgrade to v.92. I think someone just let it slip so people would think they were in such bad shape they had to start charging for things that have been free for years by all the companies they've gobbled up.
I've never used Epox because I've never heard much good about them. I really like the MSI (microstar.com.tw) boards. Only problem I've ever had with them is the built in sound kinda sucks and almost every mb they make has it. The sound works ok, just a bitch to setup the drivers sometimes.
I can't help but think (hope) that someday in the not so distant future this will backfire on MS. Now that we have all this extra hardware power would be the perfect time for someone to come up with an OS that isn't bloated. It wouldn't be easy, but with the right marketing scheme and support from major software vendors it could be done.