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5th April 2007, 02:26 PM
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... Eight 3GHz cores would be up to about 15-times faster. I wonder what would I need it for...
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5th April 2007, 02:26 PM
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If I could afford it I would go for it. Dual boot linux-mac is very interesting option. And 8 cores. hm.... that is maybe enough to run gentoo on it  ... Well, now more serious. It's great machine and must perform great, but who needs such power on a desktop? Only a limited number of people AFAIK. I do not - therefore it would be too much waste for me - having 8 cores, while only one or two in work. Now I am perfectly happy with Celeron M 420 (1,6 GHz). Eight 3GHz cores would be up to about 15-times faster. I wonder what would I need it for... |
Umm, it's called "bragging rights" where I come from
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5th April 2007, 02:26 PM
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Alrighty then.
Just getting ready for work here, so I'll take the watch.
Go get some bunk time!
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5th April 2007, 02:28 PM
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That's old hat! It's taken 5 years for M$ to develop a Mahjongg game for Vista, it probably needs that much power to run!
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5th April 2007, 06:03 PM
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This remind anyone of the clockspeed days when we compared chips by the hertz and not the flops (or for some of the oldies here mips). I don't think anyone has made software to justify getting a dual-core yet let alone a quad-core machine. Oh well by the time we need the stuff the multi-core chips will be cheap.
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5th April 2007, 06:17 PM
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This remind anyone of the clockspeed days when we compared chips by the hertz and not the flops (or for some of the oldies here mips). I don't think anyone has made software to justify getting a dual-core yet let alone a quad-core machine. Oh well by the time we need the stuff the multi-core chips will be cheap.
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In linux, software developers usually use multiple threads, dunno how effectivly, but I think that 8 cores could make a difference here. And so is the case when you use more applications simultaneously, or are compiling something. More cores are perfect for processing videos, for real-world physics simulations (usually a bunch of many parallel counts), etc. But here, now and for me, they are completely useless. 
btw. where are the days when an office suite needed <32 MB of memory? Nowadays OpenOffice are real memory eaters and what do they do to deserve such memory? Dunno. You can do most of the things you do in Writer in AbiWord, yet for Writer it takes about a minute to start, while AbiWord pops up after few seconds... I think, development is nowadays about features (and usually those, you would never use ), not about effectivness.... *sigh*
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5th April 2007, 10:09 PM
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If I could afford one, I would have one. Those things can hold up to 3 TB! (That's 3072GB) That's enough to triple-boot Fedora, PCLOS, and OSX and let each OS have 1024 GB! I guess you could even quad-boot or quint-boot. If you "octobooted", each OS would still have 384GB! Man, I need to save up some $$$ and get one of these things.
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5th April 2007, 11:21 PM
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Seems we are at the same boat...
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5th April 2007, 11:46 PM
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Seems we are at the same boat...
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Yeah looking at your specs seems we have the same CPU. I maxed out the memory some time ago to 512Mb and recently got a 250Gb disk since a new series of Doctor Who started last weekend and I was running out of space on my other two disks
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6th April 2007, 02:14 AM
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long live the Celerons :P my 1.2gig P3 based beauty is still humming along :P
regardless.. show me anything written to take use of 8 cores and ill get excited, until then.. Im going to have a Hot Cross Bun
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6th April 2007, 02:18 AM
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long live the Celerons :P my 1.2gig P3 based beauty is still humming along :P
regardless.. show me anything written to take use of 8 cores and ill get excited, until then.. Im going to have a Hot Cross Bun |
Is it that time of year again? Put a rabbit in the oven and you'll have a Hot Cross Bunny!
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6th April 2007, 02:35 AM
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I dunno. I've been playing about a bit with the iMac we recently acquired (It's the only machine connected to a printer that has ink in it and I needed to print a letter!) I thought I'd play with the scanner part of the printer and thought it would be a pain to use. It was a doddle. Turn on the printer, select 'scan' from the menu, put photo under scanner and hit the 'Mono' or 'Colour' button and wait... didn't even have to start any program on the Mac, it just grabbed the file and opened the folder where it was scanned into ready for me to move to my USB memory stick to bring up here to my Linux machine.
Sometimes I wish I had the money..... even for a printer! My Lexmark Z51 is long in the tooth (I bought it because it had OS/2 drivers back in the day!) and it costs $50 to replace each of the two cartridges! I could buy a new printer for $50, use it till it's dry, chuck it out and buy another one! 
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I don't even have room in here for a printer and I have wanted one for years. I guess when I move out.
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6th April 2007, 02:43 AM
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Is it that time of year again? Put a rabbit in the oven and you'll have a Hot Cross Bunny!
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took the words right out of my mouth
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6th April 2007, 02:50 AM
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I don't even have room in here for a printer and I have wanted one for years. I guess when I move out.
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My Z51 is connected to another machine right now although I haven't set it up. I really need to get a USB printer cable, although it worked fine with OS/2 with the parallel cable it's a bit unreliable with Linux. The other printer (connected to my son's PC) is an Epson. I think it needs a new yellow cartridge. It drives me nuts that Epsons will not print black if one of the colour cartridges is empty! The Z51 is too old to care if the colour cartridge is empty and will happily print black text. I'll never buy an Epson again, they're nearly as crappy as Lexmark!
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6th April 2007, 08:24 PM
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Yeah looking at your specs seems we have the same CPU. I maxed out the memory some time ago to 512Mb and recently got a 250Gb disk since a new series of Doctor Who started last weekend and I was running out of space on my other two disks
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Tell me, did you noticed any significant improvement going to 512Mb RAM?
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