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Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3346
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 10:20 am: | 
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http://www.applematters.com/index.php/section/comments/windows-on-a-mac-helping- the-switch/ |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 14447
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 10:25 am: |
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Ideas like these could bring down the cost of middle and high end systems.
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Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3350
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 10:43 am: |
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that could be a good thing |
Tom Reingold
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Username: Noglider
Post Number: 14448
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 10:51 am: |
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That's my point. Sorry I wasn't clear.
On the other hand, the trend of pushing prices down has some bad effects. For example, it means people don't know what they are getting because feature for feature, two systems could be the same and have different prices. The lower price one could be lower quality, and the problems won't arise immediately. The free market economy assumes everyone knows everything about all products, but it's not true.
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TarPit Coder
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Username: Tarpitcoder
Post Number: 75
Registered: 12-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 11:52 am: |
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It's really tough because it all depends on what the user is working on. Take memory bandwidth for example. Having a really screaming fast CPU with a straw feeding it may well be fine for lots of people.
OTOH if your inverting really big matricies your gonna be very unhappy.
I've often wondered if the computer market will evolve into more of a plug the bits together place. E.g. I want to take CPU A but I need a really really wide fast memory. I can buy that from YoYoMemory.
It's a bit weird because it seems CPU's are more and more tied to specific memory implementations.
It just seems like there is *value* to having a memory system that is large and lots of ways and low latency - and it's real engineering at the end of the day, so it's gonna have some real value regardless of what you glue it to.
A little like paying extra bucks for a 15K RPM drive vs a 5400RPM beastie.
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