[SunRescue] we're all just spoiled (was: re: IPC)

[Daniel F. Dickinson]

I need fast video, not for games but because I like to work at a high
resolution.  I use a minimum of 1152x??? on a 17" monitor and preferably
1280x1024.  And once I can afford it I'll go to an even bigger monitor
though I admit as 1280 I'm no longer feeling cramped.

Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 04:43:32PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >   Yeah, really.
> >   Except for one or two trendy things (mp3s come to mind), we are
> > DOING THE SAME THING with our much faster machines today that we did
> > when the IPC was new.  Sure, commercial profitware like Windoze has
> > become slower and more bloated, but OUR software really hasn't.
> >   Again, playing mp3s notwithstanding...why do we think we need dual
> > 450MHz UltraSPARC processors to do the same work as a 25MHz SPARC used
> > to do?
> >   Thanks again to the wonderful world of PeeCees...we send old
> > "friends" to hamfests and dumpsters because something else gets
> > advertised that "GOTS MORE MEGA-HURT!"
> 
> I'm using a 200Mhz PPro box right now at home that cost me $89 with 32mb
> of RAM - I added a 6.4gig HD (~50), Matrox Millenium 4mb PCI video
> card ($17), and an old IDE CD-ROm drive I had laying around ($10).
> The only other thing I added was another 96mb RAM, which I traded some
> other parts for.  So, my total expense on this box was around $175.
> Monitor?  I've got a 14" Packard Bell that does 800x600.  Keyboard and
> mouse I dug out of my junk drawer.
> 
> So, instead of going out and blowing at least $500 on what some people
> would call a "decent" home PC box, I spent around $200 on a PPro200
> (overclocked to 233 "just because") that does the job just fine, including
> Netscape, SSS, and MP3s (the only things I "need" a computer for at home).
> 
> I had a P2-500/128mb at my last job on my desk, running NT.  For all
> intents and purposes, for the things I do, this box is just as fast!
> It gets to a point where you dont NOTICE it anymore when you go from
> 300mhz to 600+ - who NEEDS their video to redraw that fast, anyway?
> 
> (Note:  Gamers, of course - but I didnt build this box to play games..)
> 
> Bill
> 
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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