... who read the title and immediately thought - is this so people don't get caught by their partners/parents/kids with Porn DVDs? Seeing as normal DVDs don't burn too well it seemed like a sensible improvement.
Vaguely on (parent) topic - I recently hunted for a new high(ish) spec, low priced (as far as possible) desktop machine and found Dell to have many good machines available, most with fantastic offers along the lines of "double memory" or "X% off the price!" which really appealed to me. However, the reason I didn't buy from Dell wasn't because of their (supposed) bad customer relations or any other reason that people can come with except this - they don't offer AMD. I wanted an AMD dual core processor, not an Intel one. There are various reasons for this but for the last Y years I've bought AMD processors and have been happy, plus Toms Hardware seems to agree;
That's ogg encoding between the AMD model I purchased (AMD X2 4200+) and it's nearest priced Intel (D 930). We could argue for days about the relative costs, memory, motherboards and a variety of other topics, but I think the numbers generally speak for themselves.
Dell, wake up, smell the coffee, drink some coffee, realise you need to offer AMD products.
"And in Microsoft's case, it's vaporware until version 3.0 at least."
Oh come now, that's not true! It wasn't until Windows _2000_ that people actually considered the OS vaguely usable (and I use 'vaguely' in the loosest sense!).
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What the hell is this so called "Spyware" all about? I don't think I've ever stumbled across it before.
Did I mention I run Linux and Firefox?
... who read the title and immediately thought - is this so people don't get caught by their partners/parents/kids with Porn DVDs? Seeing as normal DVDs don't burn too well it seemed like a sensible improvement.
Vaguely on (parent) topic - I recently hunted for a new high(ish) spec, low priced (as far as possible) desktop machine and found Dell to have many good machines available, most with fantastic offers along the lines of "double memory" or "X% off the price!" which really appealed to me. However, the reason I didn't buy from Dell wasn't because of their (supposed) bad customer relations or any other reason that people can come with except this - they don't offer AMD. I wanted an AMD dual core processor, not an Intel one. There are various reasons for this but for the last Y years I've bought AMD processors and have been happy, plus Toms Hardware seems to agree;
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That's ogg encoding between the AMD model I purchased (AMD X2 4200+) and it's nearest priced Intel (D 930). We could argue for days about the relative costs, memory, motherboards and a variety of other topics, but I think the numbers generally speak for themselves.
Dell, wake up, smell the coffee, drink some coffee, realise you need to offer AMD products.
"And in Microsoft's case, it's vaporware until version 3.0 at least."
Oh come now, that's not true! It wasn't until Windows _2000_ that people actually considered the OS vaguely usable (and I use 'vaguely' in the loosest sense!).