Thomas E. Spanjaard wrote:
> Bill Hacker wrote:
>> ACK 'marketing Nomenclature' - (the 'Core-D' / Pentium D eg - pre 'Core
>> 2' having been presented as meaning 'Core Duo')
>
> I've never seen the Pentium D marketed as "Core-D" around here though,
> that'd have been awful :).
>
T'was ever thus in Asia anyway..
Core-D (faster clock, 'fatter' lithography, hungry, slower FSB/RAM
is NE to
Core-2 (the reverse on all of the above)
>> I'll worry about all that when VIA Nano dualcore become common or ARM
>> gets faster.
>
> Haven't seen those Nano chips in the wild yet, unfortunately.
>
Dual-core, no. AFAIK, still a demo, if not 'lab' item.
Plenty of the solo's around in Netbooks and STB's though.
Wot the Hey - even the lowly C7 is a surprisingly good performer as a desktop.
All down to the hardware encryption engine and OpenSSL/SSH support for it. So
very much of what one does on a desktop uses encryption (ssh, scp, sftp, https,
esmtps(a), imaps, WiFi, rsync, VNC, remote X, remote desktop, distributed fs'en
.... etc) that the hardware crypto engine very handily offsets the
generally-slower-than-CHEAP Intel CPU.
OTOH - as a compiler box? ... NFW!
>> Meanwhile, after half a century of listening to fan noise, I'm chasing
>> lower power instead of raw speed and have come to rather enjoy what
>> Simon & Garfunkel called 'the sounds of silence'.
>
> What about a blindingly fast system, but running in another
> (sound-proofed) room? :P
>
BT,DT,GTTS. 'Challenging' with the pair of laptops I now Globetrot with, and -
limited by the uplinks - the speed is no longer of much consequence, as anything
at 1 GHz (G4) to 1.5 GHz (x86) is seldom loaded up.
> Btw, your e-mail address bounces.
Looking into that. Taking the headers from your post here, and ass-u-me-ing you
came off the same 'net from which you post to crater, I don't find any of the
three 'possible suspects' in my Exim logs as even attempting to attach recently.
From which IP did you originate the last leg toward conducive.net?
BTW - Sorry for the delay in responding - was enroute HKG USA on the 15th, then
distracted on arrival by need to deal with a water main leak and a snowstorm.