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To: tejek who wrote (149185)8/7/2002 12:57:41 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578294
 
Ted, why do you think the mainstream needs 2.0 GHz? Or 2000 QuantiHertz for that matter? It's all a marketing game. Watch as Apple takes market share away from PCs as they focus on the one problem that GHz (or QuantiSpeed) cannot solve: poor user-friendliness.

It'll be a similar "user-friendliness" that AMD needs to overcome as they push into servers. Only in this area, "user-friendliness" is RAS, a.k.a. reliability, availability, and serviceability.

Tenchusatsu



To: tejek who wrote (149185)8/7/2002 3:01:53 PM
From: i-node  Respond to of 1578294
 
Tenchusatsu, is it that 2 Gs is truly not that much faster than 1 G, or is it that the performance varies from brand to brand as contended by AMD?

GHz is like RPM in a car engine; means nothing taken alone.

Today, discount stores are FULL of 1.6GHz machines that have 5200 RPM hard drives in them. Pointless, when the true bottleneck for most operations is the HD.


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