Re:x2 4400 low end??? (Score 1)

I wondered about that too. That 4400 would be the fastest box in my house. Of course I mostly just use openoffice, firefox, cedega and a few games (and cinelerra & kino for video, and audacity) on Ubuntu dapper desktops. Once in a while I compile something. Everything I do at home runs just fine on much lesser systems than those described. I'm happy to keep it that way, and happy not to get sucked into paying $$ to have the "most powerful" desktop available for ....what..the next 10 minutes? ('Til some other "must have" upgrade comes out). Something not mentioned: Wasn't INTEL doing some fairly nefarious DRM stuff recently? Planning to? Have they stopped, or do we just care about DRM from OEMs like Apple, or software vendors like MS?