Chad Smith wrote:
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On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 22:11, Justin Fitzgibbon wrote:
So gamers/modders could be an important market for Oo.o
Maybe, I bet most don't pay for MSO ;-)
"pay for"? You mean it's not free? lol
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?
Definitely. Or the amount/speed of RAM.
All I was saying was that the attitude that a PC isn't worth using if
its CPU speed is < 3gig is stupid.
But, less than 2 GB is kinda worthless to gamers. (Speaking as one
who is stuck on old PC.) But, of course, just because it's *over* 2
GB doesn't mean it's good. The newest games have system requirements
higher than 2.0 GB.
-Chad Smith
Robert Derman replies: The whole point, which I am still not sure that
Ian gets from the wording of his replies, is that since the demise of
BYTE, MaximumPC is the favorite magazine of the HARD CORE hardware
geeks. The editorial staff of MPC is not known for handing out praise
liberally, and they have in fact been known to brutally diss a product
oposite a full page add for the same product. Many MBAs would call that
stupid too, but it* is* one way to earn the trust of hardware geeks.
The point being if MaximumPC gives you one of their highest awards it is
SIGNIFICANT! Many important people in the computer and IT fields are
regular readers of MPC, and the Softie Awards are very prominent! This
WILL get noticed, and IMHO this is some of the best publicity that OOo
has gotten so far!
