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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chic_hearne who wrote (102733)	4/6/2000 11:58:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575596

chic, <Do you know how many people have been to my house and saw a cable modem in action, then the next day called for service? Before, they were saying "who needs anything more than 56k"? This is the same for CPU's.> Would you mind digging up the number of cable modems and DSL installed in the last 12 months and projections for the next couple of years and posting them on this thread? <If you went over to a friends house in a few years that was on a 2 Ghz system, would you still say all you need is 500 Mhz? I doubt it.> I have a MMX 233 now and I don't give a damn what my friends have. The next PC I buy probably will be based on Spitfire 550s or whatever the lowest speed grade AMD will offer in the Q2/Q3 time frame. <I'm lucky enough to work with BIG BIG BIG webservers and it's crazy how fast they are. At work, when working on a site, I can be the only one on a 32-way system with 4 gigs of main memory on a 100 base-T network. Pages load up in 1/10th of a second. Until everyone has this power, we will continue to see an explosion in the need for better processors.> The bottleneck today is NOT the processor for MOST users. Less than 1% of the population has DSL or Cable Modem today. I have seen plenty of data over the years to suggest that the average user connect to the web at 33.6/52kbps and uses PC for word processing, email. To summarize again, you are a power user and are not representative of the "masses". You can disagree on that point and that's OK. Chuck