Other than laptops, I've never actually bought a computer. I've always
just bought parts & made my own.
The laptops I bought have almost invariably turned out to be a
disappointment, but I've never found a good source for components so I
could build them as well.
On 9/7/2013 4:26 PM, John Francis wrote:
well, you'd know a bit about that Gateway 486-DX2/66V I had, wouldn't you?
(for those who don't know, Marnie got some more use out of that system
when I retired it, although I hung on to the flatbed scanner and the
big old laser printer for a few more years)
The system that replaced it - my last desktop system - cost around $1300.
Nowadays you can get a pretty good setup for perhaps $700 to $900 or so;
while you can get cheaper systems, you're often giving up a bit too much.
On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 05:26:23AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
Wow. I knew it was better and better all the time (and cheaper too, I can
get a really computer for well below $2,000), but didn't know that about
the Cray-1.
Fascinating. Thanks, Marnie aka Doe :-)
In a message dated 9/5/2013 9:25:13 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Since that time, though, the price of each successive system has
come down, while the amount of power has continued to climb. I'm
not sure of the exact ratio, but just a single-threaded application
on my notebook PC (a quad-core I7 system roughly comparable to a
MacBook pro) delivers an order of magnitude more computation than
a Cray-1 supercomputer. An application such as PhotoShop that can
use all the power of the PC is better than two orders of magnitude
faster than the Cray, while the amount of memory and storage has
grown even faster than that!
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