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On Saturday 26 June 2004 09:12 am, wchast@utilpart.com wrote:
> > Well, I think that the idea of putting a 3Ghz G5 in a laptop is about
> > as silly as putting an Athlon64 into a laptop. i.e. very. However I
> > wouldn't have a problem with either of them sitting on my desktop.
> > Very few people need anything much faster than 1Ghz anything in their
> > laptop, and the ones who "need" it probably really don't. (I suppose
> > I could be thinking of columnist Rob Enderle and his "Ferrari-branded"
> > laptop that makes "Vroom vroom" noises when it boots up....)
So I love powerful computers, get's even the BIG job done fast. It was not
that many years ago when they said that the new Pentium 1 will only run on
the biggest of servers...
Funny to claim people don't need it. Once you got the ability to do something
someone will figure out how to use it. Running either w2k/xp or Linux on 1G
is way too slow for me.
OK, somone simply doing Internet related stuff don't usually need a lot of
power. Unless they rip music, then it's very handy. I multitask, i.e. run a
number of things at the same time. If I can cut out any lag anywhere I'll
take it.
Nothing wrong either with wanting the latest and greatest toy. True, this
could be silly, but might still be the biggest way for some to enjoy their
status symbol. OK, that is silly...
It's just this notion that one cannot seriously take advantage of a fast CPU
in a laptop which I disagree with. In a few years we will have 10G CPU's in
laptops and the O/S will have new ways of harnishing that power.
- --
Steve
"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
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