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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (47622)1/28/1999 1:36:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1572409
 
<But if you get a PIII 500 now you will be running on the BX chipset. If you plan to move to the Camino platform, you will need a new motherboard and new RAM. But then why would you want to run the lowly PIII 500 (compared to PIII 533) on a newer system? You will want the PIII 533 to fully exploit the Camino's capabilities. How does it feel to be screwed?>

Well, isn't the problem you just described common in the high-tech world anyway? It's not just limited to Intel's products, either. Want a Voodoo2, or a Riva TNT? Buy it and you'll feel screwed six months from now when Voodoo3 or TNT2 is released. Feel like getting a DVD-RAM drive? Make sure you choose the right standard out of many, or else you'll end up with the equivalent of the Betamax VCR. How about that Minidisc recorder you just bought, or the new cassette deck with Dolby S? Thanks to consumer CD-R decks, we can take bets on how long those devices will last before they go the way of the 8-track or the LP.

But to go back to the subject at hand, I personally will wait until this summer before upgrading my system to a Coppermine on Camino w/ RDRAM and a Voodoo3 accelerator. Then maybe two or three years after that, I may even consider getting myself a McKinley or Deerfield IA-64 system, just for the heck of it. Unless I get married before then, of course. ;-)

Tenchusatsu
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