| [News] 1GHz Athlon released | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 09-Mar-2000 21:57 GMT by Christian Kemp | 32 comments
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Sauro quotes BoingWorld: According to the AMD website the Athlon 1GHz chip has been released, and the first boxes that will be available will come from Compaq & Gateway. You can read a review of the new Athlon chip here. See AMD's web site too.
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| 1GHz Athlon released : Comment 22 of 32 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Jofre Furtado on 11-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 16 (Plain English):
Pile of shit?
Really?
I work at a Graphic Design firm that uses PC's- I'll have you know that MOST servers, even when the software is WindowsNT, are ACTUALLY UNIX-- NOT x86!
Constant Development? Oh, Please- and where did it go? I see no improvements...
Picking up clock speed by number is not progress, I'm sorry. Pentium class CPU's are good, don't get me wrong- but NOT as good as PPC- ESPECIALLY IF THE FREAKIN OS DOESN'T KNOW SHIT FROM SHINGLES AND DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO USE IT!!! Are we paying attention? My argument was not that they totally suck, but that they are not as good as PPC- The OS that currently runs on them is Windows, which renders the hardware near useless, not the hardware itself- but you can NOT tell me that putting something like TAO's Elate or Linux OS's on a Pentium class system will out perform a PPC running the same OS. PowerPC also has a superior architecture beyond the CPU and into the board and utilizes hardware properly- Wintels do NOT do this! Custom boards are superior to industry standard- we all know this- The Pentium class CPU's are made for a board that sucks and does not perform well- it doesn't go on anything else, therefore it is slower due to the bus speed anyway. Clock speed DOES NOT MATTER in reality. Co-processing capabilities are not as efficient. You want proof? Take a 68040 Amiga (25MHz) and put next to its competitor, the 486 (at 33MHz)- Um, I don't think that an Episode of Babylon5 or Jurrasic Park will be created on the latter- the other already proved it could. Defend it all you want, but Amigans stuck by their product because it was good-better and demanded no less- Windows people and MAC people have ripped each other off, pissed each other off, and made their crap systems into a religion more than anything else- just keep an open mind.
And I know I should talk after this response, but PLEASE keep the profanity down in here- I'm sure that the ANN host doesn't appreciate it and it's just not appropriate for a computer discussion sight. And if you're gonna be a pessimistic "IBMer", then screw- this is NOT a sight for you. |
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