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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: ptanner who wrote (86295)1/10/2000 1:54:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (1) of 1573103
 
PT, I have not bothered to upgrade from 400 as the target keeps moving and the price falling so it will seem like a waste in a few months. For people who bought blindingly fast(and expensive) Kryotech systems at 600 Mhz a year or so ago
it is even worse. In fact this recent acceleration has even affected supercomputers where it has been found that you can analyze a problem and if it can be solved in a certain long time period(~26 months of calculation) it pays to not start now, but wait for a year and the faster product then for sale will let you finish before 26 months, even though you waited a year, doing nothing.
In the mundane world of x86 PCs this effect is not yet quite that bad....but it is getting there. Long before the machine is paid for in a three year typical office lease it becomes hopelessly slow by current standards....yet it works fine and nothing faster is needed? Is this the ceiling that the industry will hit? Most office apps work fine at 300 Mhz or even less. they are $399-499, why pay more.

Bill
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