That is a useless argument that goes nowhere. Yes if AMD could run an Opteron or Athlon XP at 3.2 GHz it would blow away the Intel chips - BUT AMD CANNOT DO THAT. Lets just turn it around:
When the noreasters or a hurricane or tropical storm is brewing out there you get some great surf up your way though.Originally posted by: Megatomic
The surf here in Va Beach is so weak even skinny little kids on boogie boards can't catch a decent ride. Much less full grown men.
Like the computer hardware news . . . weak in SoCal . . .Originally posted by: apoppin
Well it's good to see you brudda!
But take what ya can get. Good surf for teaching my 12yo tho... heh
I cant wait till the presscot comes out i hate my 1.3Ghz P4. It needs to be faster and im to cheap to get a new mobo to get a P4 2.8c.
All true enough. The only question should be: does your rig run the games you want to play, the way you want to play them? What would hardware be without software to run on it? Hardware just gets us to what's really important: games (and awesome cinematics)
Originally posted by: jbond04
Originally posted by: NFS4
Just seems as though nothing really INTERESTING is happening anymore these days. Everything seems rather ho-hum. I mean graphics cards are already fast as hell, processor speeds jump every few months or so, but things just don't seem as "frantic" as they were back in the old Athlon vs PIII battles or Voodoo 5 5500 vs GF2 GTS.
Just go out and do what I did: get a job with a technology company! (I'm currently an engineering intern at HP here in Corvallis, OR) R&D is great stuff...working on technology the consumer won't see for years. Just because the economy is poor doesn't mean that innovation isn't happening. If anything, companies like Intel and HP are "inventing" their way out of the recession...there are truly some AWESOME things going on behind closed doors. But, of course, no great technology is without the wonderful piece of paper called an NDA.
. Things like NDAs may do a little to discourage competition (which is bad for us end-users anyway) but they take away excitement. And excitement is different than hype, and that seperation seems lost on technology companies today. The excitement is usually in the chase, in what's just ahead, but what's nearly in grasp is only slightly different from what we have. Again, a lack of distinction. Slight increases in benchmark numbers don't mean a whole lot (admittedly they do over time, though) since most of us couldn't tell the difference between a Radeon 9700 Pro and a Radeon 9800 Pro running UT2K3 at optimal settings anyway. If companies truly are able, they need to paint us a different picture and stop thinking us sheep will graze from the same field over and over. Most corporations, however, care more about proliferation than they do about innovation, because the bottom line means more than pushing the envelope . Remember, we're customers, not people. The truly neat and amazing things that you guys (consumers) want are out there, but some of them are far enough away that there's a certain amount of discretion that must be used when it comes to divulging information. Not to pick on AMD, but I think they played their Hammer card too early, because it generated a lot of hype, but they weren't able to deliver the product on time, so its reputation has languished. If HP were to promise features early in the development cycle of a product, then not be able to deliver them, it tarnishes their image. I think that to truly blow away the consumer, a company has to create a product that's not only revolutionary, but also be able to release it shortly after its announcement.
Are you sure HP is even gonna be around in 5 years? :QOriginally posted by: jbond04
While I can't speak for the whole company, I personally would love to tell you about all of the neat stuff I've seen at HP Corvallis, but I doubt you'd wait in line at Best Buy in the morning...because you'd be there for about the next 5 years.
Oh...and if you think HP Corvallis just makes printers, you're wrong.
Yes I do . .. .
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