HP plans Opteron servers, AMD partnership

re: FAT kid windwoes is trying to stay in the race....: >>How can people still buy ms windows for professional use? I cannot understand this. It used to be that 'you never lose if you go with WIntel.' Now it has become certain that you will lose almost always.<<

Er.. NOT every professional NEEDS to have a supercomputer with an array of 512 processors to get their job done. The vast majority of the common folk out there barely scratch the surface of their desktop's (or even laptop's) capabilities with the average tasks they do - word processing, e-mail, spreadsheets, looking up contact information, etc...

Unless you're doing some major database operations or are doing scientific calculations (like making a real life model of the atmosphere) chances are you probably can even get by with 2 or 4 processors.

That's how.; Posted by: Wolfie2K3 Posted on: 02/25/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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