Comment Re:My plate is pretty full right now... (Score 1) 479
This was migrating all of those PCs from Windows 2000 in a Novell environment to Windows XP in an AD environment.
"Just when you thought your 6-core chip was the baddest processor on the planet, Intel goes and announces plans to ship PCs equipped with an experimental 48-core CPU to a handful of lucky researchers sometime by the end of the second quarter.
Fuck everything, we're doing seven panels.
"PC Perspective found FPS games were basically unplayable because of the bezel through the middle of their vision..."
So just do 3x1 monitors and you won't have a bezel going through the center of your view.... You can just by 3 big monitors instead.
Once developers start using GCD for their applications, you'll start noticing significant improvements in performance.
Shoot, I already noticed the difference on my 2.5 yr old Mac Pro (1.1). First boot on 10.6 and I was like "wow, feels like a new machine again". All of the bundled apps have been recompiled (64 bit) and cleaned up (and apparently take advantage of GCD everywhere possible). I really didn't think I would see that much of a difference with 10.6 and really only upgraded because I could for $29 (I mean at that price, why not right?) I am very happy with my $29 purchase thus far. I've only had to work through a couple app incompatibilities (and as I have been able to work around them just fine, I am happy.) This is of course just my experience thus far with 10.6. I have no hard benchmark numbers for you. But I noticed right away the smoothness it brought to my older Mac Pro. And it was an easier upgrade than going from 10.4 --> 10.5.
"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson