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Re: My soopercomputer sucks.
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Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:54:17 GMT
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Calum Tsang wrote:
> Chris always laments his Soopercomputer has the early P4 which sucks.
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> Well, I got the last generation P4 two years ago which REALLY sucks. I didn't
> realize JUST how bad it was until I actually read up on the famed Prescott
> NetBurst family:
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> "Upon release, the Prescott turned out to generate approximately 40% more
> heat clock-for-clock than the Northwood, and almost every review of it was
> negative. A shift in socket type (from Socket 478 to LGA775) was expected
> to reduce the heat to more acceptable levels, but in fact proved to have
> the opposite effect, with power requirements increasing by a further 10%."
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> "Considering Intel boasted at launch the Pentium 4 architecture was
> designed for 10 GHz operation, this can be seen as one of the most
> significant, certainly most public, engineering shortfalls in Intel.s
> history."
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> Sigh. That's why I hate PCs. You always end up buying some horrible mess that
> eats power and burns a hole on the drywall behind it from fan exhaust.
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> Calum
So, when do you buy the Mac?
Chris
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| (...) Well, so far this MacBook Pro has been pretty nice. I like the hardware and base OS, they're well designed. I liked MacNQC, it works flawlessly with the USB tower. It also took a while to get used to the touch pad. But now I can't use a (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| Chris always laments his Soopercomputer has the early P4 which sucks. Well, I got the last generation P4 two years ago which REALLY sucks. I didn't realize JUST how bad it was until I actually read up on the famed Prescott NetBurst family: "Upon (...) (20 years ago, 18-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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