Mod parent up, immediately :)

Actually, quite a lot of DJs such as Armin van Buuren use a Macbook while travelling around for that specific purpose- work. I think he uses Logic on the go but I might be wrong.

Exactly. The RDF kicked into overdrive because that's what he did- he was a salesman. I'm so sick and tired of this "visionary" talk- he sold computers. He was really damned good at it, but at the end of the day, his job was to convince people to part with money. If that means making a U-turn on how good Intel CPUs are, then that's what'll be done while shifting the focus from "it's a supercomputer!" (lol) to "a better experience".

That doesn't make it a good idea, regardless of "what else can go wrong". RAID0 means you don't care if your data goes away. Period.

In before "I could care less".

Hyper Text Markup Language 5 Markup Language! Yeah!

Excuse me, I need to go order me some of that RAM memory stuff.

Work you bastards, work! Harder, faster! What do you mean, you want paying?

Does waterboarding count as cruel and unusual?

Ding ding winrar. The Toms article is very very good.

Oh, one more thing. People don't use computers for benchmarks, they run these things called games and applications on them. Perhaps you've heard of them?

Psst... real world benchmarks > synthetic benchmarks.

You're assuming that the benchmarking code is reliable, and are utterly blinded by the idea that it's crowd-sourced benchmarking that you can't even stop to question the fundamentals. And you're saying someone's in the stone age. Right.

Actually their drivers still have stupid issues. I have a 5770, Windows 7 x64 and two screens. If I run a game in windowed-maximised (such as SC2) on one of the screens, then load up a YouTube clip on the other, the driver thinks it's running in 2D mode and downclocks the GPU. It's a completely absurd bug, and, IIRC, still not fixed.

Oops. Spending an extra £12 over the price of the 1090 is what I meant to write.

Yeah but hang on a second, because a lowly i3 with one sixth the L2 cache handily beats it in low-thread situations:

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/146?vs=289

I'm not saying "OMG Intel r better!!!11!oneone", but for most people, a Core iX is usually a better choice. It also eats a lot less power- almost half.

Here in the UK, the i3 2100 is also £40 cheaper than the Phenom 1090. Spending an extra £12 and getting an i5 2400 gets you a significantly faster and cooler-running chip in almost everything, bar things like SPEC and 3DSMax.
I don't know much about AMD chipsets these days (my last AMD system was a Barton) but I'd hazard a guess you have to grab a video card as well, which means more money, no?

What platform does iTunes run on? I'm genuinely curious, but wouldn't be surprised if it's not, in fact, XServes.