On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 22:11, Justin Fitzgibbon wrote:
> >Then they are stupid ;-)
> 
> A difference of emphasis I think, if having the fastest hardware
> is really important to you, for games and the like then you'll want
> to save as much as possible on software to spend on the latest 
> 3D accelerator or whatever.

> So gamers/modders could be an important market for Oo.o

Maybe, I bet most don't pay for MSO ;-)

> They are not people with limitless cash in fact the relative 
> value of different hardware is ruthlessly examined in many cases.

So I think the CPU speed might be less significant to them than the
graphics card?

> an example of this group would be overclockers
> http://www.overclockers.com.au/
> very hardware and gaming orientated but not uninterested in FLOSS.

All I was saying was that the attitude that a PC isn't worth using if
its CPU speed is < 3gig is stupid.
-- 
Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ZMS Ltd


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