Personally I asked my parents for a couple sticks of RAM for christmas.. and got some cash and a note to go buy myself some RAM. Better than getting it wrong, or a lame-o gift card like I got from most of my relatives. Certainly better than black socks! I realize people want to give 'real' gifts.. but a couple bucks isn't much more/less thoughtful than a gift card, and its certainly nicer to recieve.. What am I going to do with a Starbucks gift card, when I don't drink coffee?!
I've found that Tom's benchmarks almost never line up with what the rest of the hardware sites are reporting. Now... Which is more likely fudged a bit. A single, large hardware site, or just about every other hardware site on the net?
Ah yes, good ol' fud. CURRENT top of the line Intel processors run hotter and consume more power than top of the line AMD processors. You're a good 4 major revisions behind on your info. The Thunderbird was the last really hot Athlon (and it really wasn't THAT bad) They cooled off considerably with the release of the Palamino, and again with the Thoroughbred. Barton is basically the same as the Tbred, and the A64 chips don't seem to be running too hot, either.
Who cares how good the retail "hintsinks" are. They're pretty decent, these days, but anyone who cares will replace it with a better performing model. No different than with Intel CPUs.
You're entitled your opinion, but your post is pretty much just 3 year old FUD.
More than likely.. I think this has been true for a LONG time all across Apple's product lines. There's never been more than a $50 variance or so on Apple hardware, if you buy it new. Thats why resellers would generally try to sell your on extras. (like free memory, software, etc) Pretty much the only way to get discounts on new Apple hardware is educational/developer discounts.
Yup. I might add, almost all of the Finnish people I know are living and working in the US, so they obviously speak english. My real point was, though, that none of the Finnish people I know speak Russian, even if they are a neighboring country.:)
I also distinctively remember IBM having a line of charcoal grey and lavender computers.. It even had a matching monitor. I believe they were the old Aptiva's. Mostly I remember spending a lot of time playing Mechwarrior 2 on one.
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Thanks, I (obviously) wasn't quite sure of the exact history.:)
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I thought StarOffice came first and they opened it up, while keeping their own closed source version?
Why bother? Because OS X has very steep system requirements, and doesn't exactly run on all that x86 hardware laying around. This is, of course, a good thing for Apple, but not for US.
From the inquirer article, I'd guess the major advantages are 2 things - An *extremely* fast bus between the CPUs on the same package, and increased density.
Even if he hadn't put a computer inside of it, the way he created this thing is pretty amazing. Maybe I just have an appreciation for people who have the talent to create stuff like this.
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I don't think I've ever seen Tom's do anything in linux or mac os.. why would they start now?
This is precisely why I dislike recieving giftcards from relatives who don't live nearby.
Personally I asked my parents for a couple sticks of RAM for christmas.. and got some cash and a note to go buy myself some RAM. Better than getting it wrong, or a lame-o gift card like I got from most of my relatives. Certainly better than black socks! I realize people want to give 'real' gifts.. but a couple bucks isn't much more/less thoughtful than a gift card, and its certainly nicer to recieve.. What am I going to do with a Starbucks gift card, when I don't drink coffee?!
I've found that Tom's benchmarks almost never line up with what the rest of the hardware sites are reporting. Now... Which is more likely fudged a bit. A single, large hardware site, or just about every other hardware site on the net?
Ah yes, good ol' fud. CURRENT top of the line Intel processors run hotter and consume more power than top of the line AMD processors. You're a good 4 major revisions behind on your info. The Thunderbird was the last really hot Athlon (and it really wasn't THAT bad) They cooled off considerably with the release of the Palamino, and again with the Thoroughbred. Barton is basically the same as the Tbred, and the A64 chips don't seem to be running too hot, either.
Who cares how good the retail "hintsinks" are. They're pretty decent, these days, but anyone who cares will replace it with a better performing model. No different than with Intel CPUs.
You're entitled your opinion, but your post is pretty much just 3 year old FUD.
More than likely.. I think this has been true for a LONG time all across Apple's product lines. There's never been more than a $50 variance or so on Apple hardware, if you buy it new. Thats why resellers would generally try to sell your on extras. (like free memory, software, etc) Pretty much the only way to get discounts on new Apple hardware is educational/developer discounts.
Since you obviously missed it.. Its a shot at SCO's 'linux licensing' for $699 that got so much press a few months ago.
Yup. I might add, almost all of the Finnish people I know are living and working in the US, so they obviously speak english. My real point was, though, that none of the Finnish people I know speak Russian, even if they are a neighboring country. :)
You obviously haven't done much work with it... Because thats not true. I *have* done a little with it, and even *I* know that.
I doubt it.. I know several Finnish people, and they speak Finnish, English, a few phrases of Swedish, and thats about it.
Not only that, but a veteranarian who happens to be the founder of the company.
Its a website for a Houston newspaper... Why SHOULD they cater to a worldwide audience?
I also distinctively remember IBM having a line of charcoal grey and lavender computers.. It even had a matching monitor. I believe they were the old Aptiva's. Mostly I remember spending a lot of time playing Mechwarrior 2 on one.
Thanks, I (obviously) wasn't quite sure of the exact history. :)
I thought StarOffice came first and they opened it up, while keeping their own closed source version?
Why bother? Because OS X has very steep system requirements, and doesn't exactly run on all that x86 hardware laying around. This is, of course, a good thing for Apple, but not for US.
I think you're missing a 0 on the end of that 286's price..
Yes.. A lot of high school physics teachers show this. Mine used a basketball and a tennis ball, though.
Its on the school's servers.. I doubt the club can afford better.
Yeah.. I feel for those poor servers. I went to WWU for a few years, and they were ALWAYS having bandwidth problems... This is going to be painful.
From the inquirer article, I'd guess the major advantages are 2 things - An *extremely* fast bus between the CPUs on the same package, and increased density.
Read it. The guts weren't working anyway. Or they just weren't there.. one of the two.
Even if he hadn't put a computer inside of it, the way he created this thing is pretty amazing. Maybe I just have an appreciation for people who have the talent to create stuff like this.
Thats not what killed them, though. The removal of the screw from the top plate caused the platters get unbalanced after a few days of use.
Yup. Several people HAVE, however, successfully windowed old junker drives. And they still work as well as they can be expected for old drives.