Seriously, I have to agree here. It is extremely rare for NTFS to get corrupted under Windows. It just wins this battle.
I've never seen NTFS get corrupted. I have seen it delete multi-gigabyte files because they were open when Windows crashed.
I've never seen ext3 get corrupted, or delete multi-gigabyte files because they were still open when Linux crashed (or, more likely, went down due to a power failure).
I've never trusted ext4 after the early 'so what if I delete your data after a power failure?' arguments from the developers.
I somehow dont expect them to have the same features or ease of use as Windows RT.
You mean it will be missing even more features than the RT version and you won't be allowed to use it for non-commercial use as well as commercial use? Maybe people will just install it to look at.
So you just define the first Atoms as not mainstream?
I have several Atoms, including one that's 32-bit only, but I would define them as not mainstream too. The 32-bit Atoms were largely used in netbooks and embedded systems.
Obviously your fanboyism has clouded your ability to grasp the situation. The AMD chip which beats this Intel chip in "a few multi-threaded benchmarks" is doing it for significantly less cost.
So Intel are presumably beating the snot out of AMD's margins, as the AMD chip is twice the size of the i7 yet has to sell for a fraction of the price because it's unable to compete.
And unless you're overclocking, I believe the i7 3770 will have the same performance as the 3770K at a lower price (about $30-40 less last I looked).
Have you ever seen some people boot up their machines? It will take 5 minutes because of the sheer amount of crap installed.
So uninstall the crap or install an SSD. A faster CPU makes far less difference to boot time than an SSD, because boot time is mostly limited by the seek performance of the disk as it loads all that crap into RAM.
The new Trinity, and now these FX Procs, are perfect for "the 99%," that is to say for what 99% of people do with their machines: surf the web, check email, maybe do some photo editing or piecing together home movies.
I did all those things on a Pentium-4.
I agree about AMD's low-end CPUs, but why would you want an 8-core CPU to do any of those things? Does an email program really need eight cores these days?
CPU's tends not to be the bottle neck these days its either the hard drive or slow internet connection.
AMD fanboys have been saying that for years as AMD lagged behind Intel's CPU performance. But they then keep telling people they should buy AMD 8-core CPUs instead of Intel 4-core, when, if they really believed what they were saying, they would be telling people to buy the cheapest dual-core available, or an Atom.
Seriously, why would you possibly think an 8-core CPU was 'perfect' for your parents' PC, no matter who makes it? If they're not CPU-limited, buy the cheapest CPU you can get.
I'm just ordering the parts to build another Windows PC for gaming. I'll need one eventually, and with Windows 7 vanishing soon I don't want to be stuck with an 'awfully simple' OS.
At current Windows release rates, hopefully a box built with high-end parts today will last at least until Windows 10.
Twenty years ago most computers other than PCs were 'fully vertical systems where one company either makes most of the components or designs and manufactures the whole product'. So that's not much of a prediction.
Of course we then decided it was a bad idea because the more open PC was much cheaper than a Unix workstation built by a company with no competition other than different and incompatible Unix workstations. Took the best part of a generation for the wheel to turn back.
And how many end users actually check how long their OS is supposed to be supported for when they buy a PC? If they buy a new PC off the shelf with XP, they expect Microsoft to continue supporting it until they buy another one.
No tablet in the past is worth comparing to something that you can comfortably (as long as you know where your fingers are) type a document up *with the screen*.
Nor is any current tablet, unless your definition includes typing five words a minute with one hand while holding it in the other. Even typing a URL is painful on my Android tablet and from my experience with iPods I can't imagine the iPad is much better.
Except the netbook I bought in 2010 came with XP. So it only gets four years' support.
Not that it matters since I wiped Windows and installed Linux instead, but XP was for sale until very recenlty; the only reason you can claim it was supported for a long time is because it was for sale for a long time, unlike the new compulsory-upgrade-every-two-years cycle.
This just goes to show how wasteful Hollywood is, and how they have no foresight.
Having gone dumpster-diving at the end of major movie shoots I'm always amused when I see some Hollywood actor telling us how we must recycle and conserve stuff. On the plus side, I don't think the indie movies I worked on ever had to pay for a light gel because we collected so many perfectly good ones that had been thrown away just because the movie wrapped.
I remember Roger Corman saying that one reason he could make movies so cheaply in the 60s and 70s was because he kept sets and reused them, rather than just tearing them down and throwing them away.
True. If you're bring thrown around the bridge, the consoles are probably already exploding and sending showers of sparks right where you were just sitting.
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ActiveX might not have been good, but it sure was innovative.
'Innovative' in the sense that everyone else realised what a stupid idea it was and didn't even consider implementing it.
Seriously, I have to agree here. It is extremely rare for NTFS to get corrupted under Windows. It just wins this battle.
I've never seen NTFS get corrupted. I have seen it delete multi-gigabyte files because they were open when Windows crashed.
I've never seen ext3 get corrupted, or delete multi-gigabyte files because they were still open when Linux crashed (or, more likely, went down due to a power failure).
I've never trusted ext4 after the early 'so what if I delete your data after a power failure?' arguments from the developers.
But the Wintel Surface 8 Pro looks very exciting. I can't wait to get my hands on one.
Why?
I mean that seriously: what does it do that a $200 netbook doesn't do at least as well?
I somehow dont expect them to have the same features or ease of use as Windows RT.
You mean it will be missing even more features than the RT version and you won't be allowed to use it for non-commercial use as well as commercial use? Maybe people will just install it to look at.
So you just define the first Atoms as not mainstream?
I have several Atoms, including one that's 32-bit only, but I would define them as not mainstream too. The 32-bit Atoms were largely used in netbooks and embedded systems.
Obviously your fanboyism has clouded your ability to grasp the situation. The AMD chip which beats this Intel chip in "a few multi-threaded benchmarks" is doing it for significantly less cost.
So Intel are presumably beating the snot out of AMD's margins, as the AMD chip is twice the size of the i7 yet has to sell for a fraction of the price because it's unable to compete.
And unless you're overclocking, I believe the i7 3770 will have the same performance as the 3770K at a lower price (about $30-40 less last I looked).
So AMD's fastest desktop CPU from 2010 beats an Intel laptop CPU from 2008? Call me impressed.
Have you ever seen some people boot up their machines? It will take 5 minutes because of the sheer amount of crap installed.
So uninstall the crap or install an SSD. A faster CPU makes far less difference to boot time than an SSD, because boot time is mostly limited by the seek performance of the disk as it loads all that crap into RAM.
Guild Wars 2 seems to be CPU-limited as well; no graphics setting change other than supersampling makes more than 1fps difference on my system.
The new Trinity, and now these FX Procs, are perfect for "the 99%," that is to say for what 99% of people do with their machines: surf the web, check email, maybe do some photo editing or piecing together home movies.
I did all those things on a Pentium-4.
I agree about AMD's low-end CPUs, but why would you want an 8-core CPU to do any of those things? Does an email program really need eight cores these days?
CPU's tends not to be the bottle neck these days its either the hard drive or slow internet connection.
AMD fanboys have been saying that for years as AMD lagged behind Intel's CPU performance. But they then keep telling people they should buy AMD 8-core CPUs instead of Intel 4-core, when, if they really believed what they were saying, they would be telling people to buy the cheapest dual-core available, or an Atom.
Seriously, why would you possibly think an 8-core CPU was 'perfect' for your parents' PC, no matter who makes it? If they're not CPU-limited, buy the cheapest CPU you can get.
Lay the monitor almost flat on the table.
Yeah, hunching over the screen all day will be a really comfortable way to work.
Touch is great for accessing and consuming content.
So long as you don't mind 'consuming' it behind a smear of fingerprints all over the screen.
I'm just ordering the parts to build another Windows PC for gaming. I'll need one eventually, and with Windows 7 vanishing soon I don't want to be stuck with an 'awfully simple' OS.
At current Windows release rates, hopefully a box built with high-end parts today will last at least until Windows 10.
Twenty years ago most computers other than PCs were 'fully vertical systems where one company either makes most of the components or designs and manufactures the whole product'. So that's not much of a prediction.
Of course we then decided it was a bad idea because the more open PC was much cheaper than a Unix workstation built by a company with no competition other than different and incompatible Unix workstations. Took the best part of a generation for the wheel to turn back.
Hint: how do you think those tanks were filled on the ground?
I believe this is mainly intended for new satellites, but there has been talk about refueling old ones using existing ports.
Ubuntu aren't selling their OS. Microsoft are.
And how many end users actually check how long their OS is supposed to be supported for when they buy a PC? If they buy a new PC off the shelf with XP, they expect Microsoft to continue supporting it until they buy another one.
No tablet in the past is worth comparing to something that you can comfortably (as long as you know where your fingers are) type a document up *with the screen*.
Nor is any current tablet, unless your definition includes typing five words a minute with one hand while holding it in the other. Even typing a URL is painful on my Android tablet and from my experience with iPods I can't imagine the iPad is much better.
Beats me, but its still amusing that there is no E Ink reader competiton.
As I understand it, they all get their screens from the same company, and the tech is probably patented so no-one else can make them.
Every OS will eventually stop receiving security updates. And if 50% of companies are still running XP, Microsoft will be forced to keep updating it.
Except the netbook I bought in 2010 came with XP. So it only gets four years' support.
Not that it matters since I wiped Windows and installed Linux instead, but XP was for sale until very recenlty; the only reason you can claim it was supported for a long time is because it was for sale for a long time, unlike the new compulsory-upgrade-every-two-years cycle.
This just goes to show how wasteful Hollywood is, and how they have no foresight.
Having gone dumpster-diving at the end of major movie shoots I'm always amused when I see some Hollywood actor telling us how we must recycle and conserve stuff. On the plus side, I don't think the indie movies I worked on ever had to pay for a light gel because we collected so many perfectly good ones that had been thrown away just because the movie wrapped.
I remember Roger Corman saying that one reason he could make movies so cheaply in the 60s and 70s was because he kept sets and reused them, rather than just tearing them down and throwing them away.
True. If you're bring thrown around the bridge, the consoles are probably already exploding and sending showers of sparks right where you were just sitting.
That is because it is patented by Intel.
Setting the hyperthreading bit in the CPU flags is patented by Intel?
People run Windows because it does what they want to do and they're happy enough with it.
They run Windows because a Mac costs 2.5x as much and they have a load of old Windows software they can't live without.
In this case the 'Mac' tablet costs about the same as the Windows tablet, and their old Windows software won't run, so why would they buy one?