Well, I'm really moving the topic to Penguins (as we should on a Linux list) ... On 06-Oct-06 cl@isbd.net wrote:
This whole process has been quite an education in (not?) buying bleeding edge hardware. It's something I have always avoided in the past, mostly on the basis that "just a little behind bleeding edge" is usually better value for money.
I remember (a long time ago) reading about how penguins get up in the morning, and waddle off to the edge of their ice-floe. There they all line up, looking down into the sea (into which they all wish to plunge), and wait, doubtfully, shuffling their feet. Eventually, one of them will shuffle a bit too far, and onto the slippery slope. It slides inexorably down, and splashes into the sea. The others watch, wide-eyed. After a while, if the one that fell does not get eaten by a seal, the others drop forward onto their bellies and toboggan joyfully down to the sea for breakfast.
However this time everything and everyone said that the Intel Core 2 Duo processor was the one to go for as it's a significant jump ahead of the best AMD 64x2 processors at the moment. The price differential wasn't that significant compared with the AMD processors so I went for it.
Watching this wide-eyed! Congratulations on evading that leopard seal! Cheers, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 06-Oct-06 Time: 13:18:50 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------