The forum has suffered massively with his absence.
The forum has suffered massively with his absence.
thisTotally agree. The forums are very polarized now between the intel/amd and amd/nVidia. There is more ranting for ones favorite team than useful information it seems sometimes.
This. Freefall ever since.
Totally agree.
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It's great to hear from you again!Regarding the present state of most things technology (or the end-consumer products as it were), is it just me or have we micro-iterated ourselves to the point of diminishing returns wherein the impetus for upgrading is practically non-existent?
My latest upgrade was to put a 1TB SSD in my laptop. Yawn.
IMO we need sub-20nm tech across the board (CPU, GPU, Ram, and SSD/Flash) to get things exciting again, we are languishing in these 2X-nm doldrums.
Kabini looks to be the savior of the memory makers, finally a product that enables a value-add opportunity for the memory makers' higher margin and higher speedbin dimms.The most excitement we've had around here was the Kabini AM1 launch, which was semi-exciting. An interesting product, low price-point, great for entry-level mini-ITX HTPC rigs. For ordinary desktop usage, not so much, when you can get a Haswell Pentium or Celeron for not much more, and have much-improved single-threaded performance.
I started some somewhat-unpopular threads, about Intel's (I believe) move to BGA, and that they would start using "hardware DLC" - selling fully-capable chips, soldered onto motherboards, and in order to unlock features, you would have to pay for unlock codes. Given the success in the online gaming market of this scheme, I think that my idea has merit.
Hi folks, a caring forum member happened upon this thread and emailed it my way to get my attention
Thanks for all your many kind words :$:$
I truly have missed the forums, or more specifically I would say I have truly missed my forum friends and the intellectually exciting discussions we held in the past.
But, as some of you mentioned, I'm now located in Taiwan which is exactly 12hrs time difference from the majority of you who live on the east coast of the USA.
I'm not prevented from posting here by technical "golden handcuffs" or any other compulsory requirements; rather, it simply became impractical to squeeze time out of what has been a crazy steep learning curve with acclimating myself and my family to our "chinese immersion" environment.
For the Zhōngwén speakers among you - 你好嗎? - and for the rest of us English speakers (be it first or third language) - how ya been?
Regarding the present state of most things technology (or the end-consumer products as it were), is it just me or have we micro-iterated ourselves to the point of diminishing returns wherein the impetus for upgrading is practically non-existent?
My latest upgrade was to put a 1TB SSD in my laptop. Yawn.
IMO we need sub-20nm tech across the board (CPU, GPU, Ram, and SSD/Flash) to get things exciting again, we are languishing in these 2X-nm doldrums.
I started some somewhat-unpopular threads, about Intel's (I believe) move to BGA, and that they would start using "hardware DLC" - selling fully-capable chips, soldered onto motherboards, and in order to unlock features, you would have to pay for unlock codes. Given the success in the online gaming market of this scheme, I think that my idea has merit.
They've already tried that out: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/09/intels-upgradable-processor-good-sense-or-utter-catastrophe/
I think a lot of people here feel this way. In some ways I think we're actually going backwards (i.e. branding Atoms as Pentium/Celerons and Jaguars as A4/A6's). Someone should freeze my body/brain for 9 years (out of every 10) so I can have more interesting advancements to wake up to! My guess is that the 2004 laptop I'm typing this on will still be able to browse this forum without any issues in 2024.Regarding the present state of most things technology (or the end-consumer products as it were), is it just me or have we micro-iterated ourselves to the point of diminishing returns wherein the impetus for upgrading is practically non-existent?
My latest upgrade was to put a 1TB SSD in my laptop. Yawn.