[geeks] Athlon 64 X2 3800+

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> Well, a few days ago, I decided to splurge and bought myself a Blu-Ray
> burner.  I am pleased to report that using only the software decoder,
> my box can decode a Blu-Ray movie in 1080p using only just under 1/2
> of one processor core!  I am tremendously pleased.

Hm.  Half of a 2.0GHz 64-bit processor just to watch a movie.

Yeah, that's something, alright.

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