[NefCanuck]

NOS2Go4Me,Jul 6 2005, 03:52 PM Wrote:

NefCanuck,Jul 6 2005, 03:07 PM Wrote:Stoopid good bargain that only offers incremental gains until 64 bit and dual CPU OS'es hit the mainstream, (which will be quite a while unless a "killer app" comes along... and it ain't Longhorn :D)

Until that time its like having a V8 rammed into a bone stock Focus base model sedan.  Lovely to look at and tell yer friends about, but its use is severely limited by its surrounding arcitecture.

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You do know that XP Pro is dual-core aware and capable OOTB, right?

You also must be aware that there is a plethora of apps available right now in many fields for multi-core / multi-threaded use?

Also, killer app is one thing. MS's latest "bloaterating system" is hardly keeping 64-bit or dual-core / multi-core goodness from appearing. If nothing else, we'll get to enjoy a multi-core environment long before their logic vampires completely wreck the entire experience.
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Okay, I think I have to clairify things here, when I say killer app I mean something that a sizeable chunk of average computer users can see a demonstratable benefit from. Why do you think that both Intel & AMD are finding most of there action still in older chip designs? Sure cost is a factor, but does "Mr. & Mrs. Average Computer User" need the latest whiz-bang CPU to do what they want to do?

My suggestion is no... hell, my father contiues to poke along with a P-166 w/96MB of RAM, I despise using his machine but it does everything he needs to do"

If there was an app that needed a high end processor that he needed to use for himself, he could easily afford to buy such a PC and would do so in a shot. Hell if they could ever get voice recognition software to the point where it understood every dialect and prononciation right outta the box I'd cough up for a bleeding edge processor if that's what it took to run it.

Even for my own use, aside from the occasional game, I hardly feel the "Need For Speed" that I would have years ago when I see the latest CPU's being released. Faster CPU's benefit a segment of the computer using crowd I agree 100%, but until that segment gets large enough, it's like giving 80 year olds Focus SVT's to get their groceries.

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