Comment Re:AMD = Stagnated. (Score 1) 149
'Disingenuous'
'Disingenuous'
I hope you like $500 celerons...
If this was 1995, I'd believe it. In 2011, Intel competes with itself. If they drive up CPU prices, they won't be able to make more and more profits because people do *NOT* need to upgrade. The vast majority of the population is doing fine on a dual core 4+ year old CPU running a browser and IM program and watching videos. Since people do not need to upgrade, but Intel has to sell more and more CPUs, their profits would collapse and then the stock and then
We need healthy competition to Intel, to keep pushing tech forward and prices down. Sadly AMD simply has not performed over the last year or two, with no real answers to Intel's I series.
I built a Linux server/desktop earlier this year:
AM3+ motherboard (4 RAM slots, 6 x SATA 6GB ports, 2 x USB 3.0 ports): 90$
AMD 1090T six core CPU: 160$
Great performance, incredible value. Once Bulldozer gets better, I can seamlessly upgrade it. Now, I'd like to see an Intel equivalent for this.
Stone age old? My mom's desktop is an AMD Athlon 3800 x2, that's what? 6.5 years old? Motherboard is some El-Cheapo don't even remember the brand socket 939 motherboard. Ram is some old, old, very old kit. Hard drive is some crappy Sata 150. Video card is something built in the motherboard, guess what? Ubuntu 11.04 didn't complain about a single thing. Everything works.
My own desktop is a mix of 3-5 year old parts (NIC, Wifi, NVidia 7600 GS) with a more modern CPU and motherboard. All work without driver issues.
What constitutes random parts then? Walking into a store and telling the cashier: Okay, give me a random motherboard, random CPU, random hard drive, random memory stick, random network card?
I built a desktop/server running Ubuntu, assembling it took me maybe one hour tops, pieces were all random:
- Gigabyte Motherboard
- AMD 1090T
- A bunch of hard drives I had lying around.
- A 20 GB Intel SLC SSD for OS/boot.
- An old SATA card for extra ports.
- An old WiFi card.
- A low power NVidia card.
Ubuntu 11.04 detected everything, it then suggested me to install the restricted driver for the NVidia card. Only thing installer missed is the fstab settings for the SSD (noatime and discard). Didn't install in zero time, obviously, but had no hardware detection issues at all.
That has been the trend lately, just like companies are moving towards Google's products just because they are free, even while there are much better products on the market.
GMail runs great on my Home PC (Ubuntu), Laptop (Arch), Gaming PC (Windows 7), Work PC (Windows XP), iPhone and wherever I am that has an internet enabled device with a non retarded browser. Any other email programs that run on all those platforms and cost the same as GMail (free) and are as feature rich?
...since Unity has made Ubuntu completely suck on anything with a mouse and keyboard.
I just don't get the hate towards Unity. I got all my important applications hotkeyed. The icon bar has hotkey mappings too. If I have to use one non hotkeyed application, I just hit super key and start typing either description or name, and after 2-3 letters it's the first pick on the launcher. Everything is at my fingertips, notifications work well too, switcher as well, my password file is seamlessly synchronized using Ubuntu One over 4 PCs, I got out of the box support for mp3s, NVidia drivers and whatnot.
What do people who constantly rag on Unity want? I can understand they might be frustrated with some bugs, but latest release is very stable (at least for me). I am trying to understand what people miss from KDE, Gnome 2 or other DEs that Unity doesn't have or that it has implemented in a really bad way.
The thing that bothers me about all this is that Google hasn't stepped into the courts really very much at all yet.
99% of avoiding Malware is simple not being an idiot and not going to places you shouldn't or agreeing to install stuff you shouldn't.
That said, Windows 7 still does a pretty dang good job of blocking things compared to Windows XP (which is sort of like comparing the common cold to Ebola).
Written like someone who never ran XP as 'not being an idiot'. My family and extended family is still running XP, I locked it down easy (not allowing them to run stuff as admins and installing MSE) and guess what? Not one single virus. Every modern OS (including XP) that is configured properly can run very virus safe, for the moment. No malware writer bothers with local privilege escalation so not running as admin means you are safe. For now.
Really though...who buys a vendor PC then slaps Linux on it? We build our PC's..
Right! I bought all pieces of my laptop and assembled it myself and installed Linux on it!
Oh wait
Investors aren't stupid when it comes to money
Exactly! Everyone already has a Z68 board! No one needs this Synapse crap!
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