On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:52:47AM -0800, Jonathan M Davis wrote: > On Saturday, March 10, 2012 11:49:22 H. S. Teoh wrote: > > Yikes. That would *not* sit well with me. Before my last upgrade, my > > PC was at least 10 years old. (And the upgrade before that was at > > least 5 years prior.) Last year I finally replaced my 10 y.o. PC > > with a brand new AMD hexacore system. The plan being to not upgrade > > for at least the next 10 years, preferably more. :-) > > LOL. I'm the complete opposite. I seem to end up upgrading my computer > every 2 or 3 years. I wouldn't be able to stand being on an older > computer that long. I'm constantly annoyed by how slow my computer is > no matter how new it is. Of course, I do tend to stress my machine > quite a lot by having a ton of stuff open all the time and doing > CPU-intensive stuff like transcoding video, and how you use your > computer is a definite factor in how much value there is in upgrading. [...]
True. But I found Linux far more superior in terms of being usable on very old hardware. I can't imagine the pain of trying to run Windows 7 on, say, a 5 y.o. PC (if it will even let you install it on something that old!). I used to run CPU-intensive stuff too, by using 'at' to schedule it to run overnight. :-) Although, I have to admit the reason for my last upgrade was because I was doing lots of povray rendering, and it was getting a bit too slow for my tastes. It's no fun at all if you had to wait 2 hours just to find out you screwed up some parameters in your test render. Imagine if you had to wait 2 hours to know the result of every 1 line code change. T -- Lottery: tax on the stupid. -- Slashdotter
