unless the benchmarks I've seen are wrong, you better add the rider 'and make gosh darn diddley sure you aren't using some )*&)*( "INTEGRATED" ATA RAID, or some barely modified ATA controller. the differance between a promise fast trak, (a promise ata100 controller that's gotten a new firmware) and a supertrak, with cache, and an asic is the differance between JBOD, and a striping configuration with benefits like higher throughput and lower proc usage.
also 'you nitwits always griping about how raid 0 is dangerous should all take a long walk off a short pier'
1 HDD is rated tor 10K hours MTBF. take 2 HDDs, and you need both of them working flawlessly to boot every morning, and the same to store your pirated muzack, then you no longer have that MTBF. with 2 drives that each have a 50% chance of not reaching 10K, suddenly, to reach 10K, there are 4 outcomes, and only 1 will leave you a happy camper with your cheesecake pics of that studly elvish feller in the LOTR
ok, this'll be a bit more than ten.
mostly I'm a windows homeboy... I hated it when win 95 came out, I suddenly had to leave my precious DOS, but now I've been at home with windows for years, but I've only been tooling with linux for a little, so my windows list is good, my linux list is bad... but it's what I got.
windows:
mostly what I do, is browse, use IRC, play music, watch divX stuff, chat, and browse jpgs. so those are the areas in which I have app suggestions
internet browsing: Mozilla.
mail: I remember using pegasus mail, then I started using yahoo.
Images: Acdsee (great trial-ware browser) Irfanview (freeware, more manipulation features, but not as fluid a browser)
sound: winamp for when I'm multi tasking, musicmatch for when I'm only listening because it does something to make the mp3's sound good, and "QCD" to play.ogg in windows. it also has a nifty playlist thing when it's in it's runt mode.
multimedia: I have 2 versions of windows media player, the latest, which is annoying, and colorful, and then the latest win 9x version even though I use win 2K. sometimes files work with one, not the other, so I've got wmp 6.4, and the latest. also (BSplayer) top marks go to low cpu usage and Bsplayer.
I don't like real one player, I have RP8, and of course, quicktime.
for linux media, I really like mplayer.
for text manipulation, I like notepad, worpad, and VI.
for image culling and stuff, I use wget. the mozilla I use on this computer, 1.0 r canidate 3, doesn't do ftp well, so I either use the command line, or IE...
I also like trillian, though yahoo messanger has been crashing it recently.
for CD burning, I use nero, solely, I like it alot
for what limited sound manipulation I do, which to date has only been my ripping ELO's time album to ogg, but with their intro and twilight track being 2 tracks but one continuous song, I used nero's competant looking wave editor to slap the two together, I don't do much ripping or encoding, so I have no preferance there.
hope this has helped.
I hate to rag on someone like this, and actually it's an enormous group of people from my estimation, but the numbnuts that'll feed intel with this latest, greatest processor, are the people who did it the last time, and the time before it. a HUGE segment of gamers think that cold cathode lights will improve performance, because IT COSTS MONEY!! they think a 200 dollar P4 1.7 will beat a athlon 2.4 because the P4 costs more, etc. etc. people buy expensive things, they get ripped off. it's never been a niche market, it never will.
your skipping the $250 for the 4 year service agreement dell offers. Now I'm not here saying that there isn't a single institution on the face of this, or any other planet that would be more likely to suddenly become cost-conscience then to pass up a service-agreement, what I'm saying is that your dreaming if you think that an institution is going to skip the service agreement, also microsoft works? office'll be another $250. and finally, the P4... how SMP is that? you're going to need to go for the gusto. a P4 SMP, i.e. "XEON" which'll give you a larger price, only 3.06ghz in the pants, and a 533 FSB, though the place for a front side bus in strictly mathmatical benchmarks like these *as I understand it* won't matter much
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unless the benchmarks I've seen are wrong, you better add the rider 'and make gosh darn diddley sure you aren't using some )*&)*( "INTEGRATED" ATA RAID, or some barely modified ATA controller. the differance between a promise fast trak, (a promise ata100 controller that's gotten a new firmware) and a supertrak, with cache, and an asic is the differance between JBOD, and a striping configuration with benefits like higher throughput and lower proc usage. also 'you nitwits always griping about how raid 0 is dangerous should all take a long walk off a short pier' 1 HDD is rated tor 10K hours MTBF. take 2 HDDs, and you need both of them working flawlessly to boot every morning, and the same to store your pirated muzack, then you no longer have that MTBF. with 2 drives that each have a 50% chance of not reaching 10K, suddenly, to reach 10K, there are 4 outcomes, and only 1 will leave you a happy camper with your cheesecake pics of that studly elvish feller in the LOTR
ok, this'll be a bit more than ten. mostly I'm a windows homeboy... I hated it when win 95 came out, I suddenly had to leave my precious DOS, but now I've been at home with windows for years, but I've only been tooling with linux for a little, so my windows list is good, my linux list is bad... but it's what I got. windows: mostly what I do, is browse, use IRC, play music, watch divX stuff, chat, and browse jpgs. so those are the areas in which I have app suggestions internet browsing: Mozilla. mail: I remember using pegasus mail, then I started using yahoo. Images: Acdsee (great trial-ware browser) Irfanview (freeware, more manipulation features, but not as fluid a browser) sound: winamp for when I'm multi tasking, musicmatch for when I'm only listening because it does something to make the mp3's sound good, and "QCD" to play .ogg in windows. it also has a nifty playlist thing when it's in it's runt mode.
multimedia: I have 2 versions of windows media player, the latest, which is annoying, and colorful, and then the latest win 9x version even though I use win 2K. sometimes files work with one, not the other, so I've got wmp 6.4, and the latest. also (BSplayer) top marks go to low cpu usage and Bsplayer.
I don't like real one player, I have RP8, and of course, quicktime.
for linux media, I really like mplayer.
for text manipulation, I like notepad, worpad, and VI.
for image culling and stuff, I use wget. the mozilla I use on this computer, 1.0 r canidate 3, doesn't do ftp well, so I either use the command line, or IE...
I also like trillian, though yahoo messanger has been crashing it recently.
for CD burning, I use nero, solely, I like it alot
for what limited sound manipulation I do, which to date has only been my ripping ELO's time album to ogg, but with their intro and twilight track being 2 tracks but one continuous song, I used nero's competant looking wave editor to slap the two together, I don't do much ripping or encoding, so I have no preferance there.
hope this has helped.
I hate to rag on someone like this, and actually it's an enormous group of people from my estimation, but the numbnuts that'll feed intel with this latest, greatest processor, are the people who did it the last time, and the time before it. a HUGE segment of gamers think that cold cathode lights will improve performance, because IT COSTS MONEY!! they think a 200 dollar P4 1.7 will beat a athlon 2.4 because the P4 costs more, etc. etc. people buy expensive things, they get ripped off. it's never been a niche market, it never will.
your skipping the $250 for the 4 year service agreement dell offers. Now I'm not here saying that there isn't a single institution on the face of this, or any other planet that would be more likely to suddenly become cost-conscience then to pass up a service-agreement, what I'm saying is that your dreaming if you think that an institution is going to skip the service agreement, also microsoft works? office'll be another $250. and finally, the P4... how SMP is that? you're going to need to go for the gusto. a P4 SMP, i.e. "XEON" which'll give you a larger price, only 3.06ghz in the pants, and a 533 FSB, though the place for a front side bus in strictly mathmatical benchmarks like these *as I understand it* won't matter much
IBM already has some sort of j-key thing on some of their mice, so this would only be eye raising if it had some rotational movement too it.