Thank you Mike -- again - for turning very technical stuff into interesting reading.
Now a followup question -- why do we have this "all or nothing" mindset towards chips?
If the only people who "get" anything out of this new chip set are "gamers" -- why not
market a chip to them only? And a less expensive chip towards the home market? Or one
that's optimized for file serving for *that* market?
Is it a mass production thing? That is, are the economies of scale such that specilty
chips would cost a lot more to produce? It just seems like the business market (number
of units sold to home offices, small business, F500, etc) is much larger than the
gaming market -- of will it be this factor (product not approriate for major market)
that makes this new chip not an attractive "upgrade option."
And we all know that Swiss Army knives have their place [emergencies, for example],
but if you really need a functional screwdriver -- and aren't trapped on top of a
mountain -- it's best to go get a screwdriver out of the tool box!
Unfortunately, the OEMs seem to take whatever's new and put it in their current
models. Try buying a *new* PC with a 200 MhZ pentium chip. Even if that's all the
power you need.
> Kathy E. Gill
>
>
>
> From: Michael A. Stone[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
>
> > Would be interesting to see if there is any performance improvement with
> > business applications or web server or mail server or DB processing ....
>
> business applications i couldn't tell you.. though i imagine a spreadsheet
> would sing. improvements in standard server applications would be
> unlikely. databases might see some improvement, but it's hard to say.
>
<SNIP>
> if you want things like high speed realtime 3D rendering, or high quality
> digital audio and video, that kind of architecture has a lot to offer. if
> you want something more prosaic, like a file server, it's just so much
> wasted metal.
>
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