Hi all; DDR motherboards continue to proliferate on PriceWatch. They should soon catch up with the older, more established RDRAM chipsets:
820 chipset based motherboards: 44
850 chipset based motherboards: 45
DDR chipset based motherboards: 73
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Given the amount of DDR that is being shipped as graphics memory, it seems highly likely that DDR will outship RDRAM in 1Q01.
Jdassoc, your nit picking with regard to the capabilities of DDR machines has been going on for months on this thread. What the RDRAM proponents have had to do, in the face of DDR continuing to make inroads on RDRAM territory, is to continue to have to retreat.
Okay, now that DDR machines are widely available on PriceWatch, you've had to retreat to noting that Micron doesn't offer more than 256MB on their DDR machines. Big deal, if you want more, you can assemble it yourself, as Scumbria did, from DIMMs you buy from any of a large number of vendors on PriceWatch.
And what are you going to say when MicronPC starts offering 1GB DDR on their DDR machines? Are you going to apologize?
As far as the note that MicronPC's DDR machines are incompatible with Windows 2000, I don't know much about operating systems, but I do know that installing new operating systems on your machine is a pain almost beyond belief for the amateur (personally I will never try it again), so I'm not surprised that a reviewer had trouble doing it. Micron's DDR machine is available with "Windows 2000 Pro", for $99 extra, as to what the difference is between that and "Windows 2000" is I don't know, and frankly don't care.
There are plenty of possible explanations for Micron not providing any one of a number of possible operating systems on any of their computers, most of them having to do with the market for the various machines. Suggesting that memory incompatibility is the reason is silly in the extreme. No one believes this. We all know that the operating system doesn't know what kind of memory is installed. Try again.
And besides, what are you going to say when Micron supports your favorite OS? Where will you retreat to then?
We all know that Intel is the big boy in this industry and that any technology that tries to grow up without Intel support has a hard road ahead of it. DDR is making great progress, and even Intel has clearly stated that they will support it in the past.
Look around. Have you seen AMD announce an RDRAM based chipset yet? How's about VIA? Is Serverworks working on one? How about Nvidia? Is ALi going to revive their canned RDRAM chipset? Look around you. Think for yourself. Every single RDRAM manufacturer is also putting money effort into DDR, but not vice versa.
-- Carl |
